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Article: Cow wrongly took heat, says Mrs. O'Leary's kin
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 7, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright 1997 Chicago Sun-Times. (Hide copyright information)
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One hundred twenty-six years after Chicago's Great Fire of 1871,
a direct descendant of Mrs. Catherine O'Leary took the stand to help
clear her great-great grandmother's name, once and for all.
The reporters leaned forward, pens poised, ready to record the
shame, the stigma, the anger she must have felt having her family's
name raked for so long over the coals of false accusation.
Instead, flanked by her own daughters, Nancy Connolly smiled
brightly.
"Actually . . . it's been very fun," she said. "We've sort of
enjoyed the notoriety."
It was a wry twist to a tale that has smoldered in the
imaginations of historians and residents ever since Oct. 8, 1871,
when fire erupted in Mrs. ...
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