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Baby Doe Tabor, circa 1883. Elizabeth McCourt Tabor (September 1854 – March 7, 1935), better known as Baby Doe, was the second wife of Colorado pioneer businessman Horace Tabor. Her rags-to-riches and back to rags again story made her a well-known figure in her own day, and inspired an opera and a Hollywood movie based on her life.
His wife, Baby Doe Tabor, died in the superintendent's cabin. According to legend, Tabor’s dying instructions to his wife were: “Hold onto the Matchless mine, it will make millions.” After some years in Denver, Baby Doe moved into a cabin next to the mine. She lost the mine in 1927, when it was sold to satisfy a debt, but the new owners ...
He had an affair with Elizabeth McCourt, nicknamed Baby Doe. [3] Requiring money to support herself, by 1882 she took in boarders and she filed a suit against Tabor for financial support. Without Augusta's knowledge, Tabor attained a divorce in Durango, Colorado , in March 1882.
A year later, Horace has left Augusta and is living with Baby Doe. Her friends tell Augusta, now living in Denver, that Horace plans to divorce her. She swears to ruin him. Scene 6. Horace and Baby Doe's wedding party is set in Washington DC. Baby's mother praises the couple's riches, but society wives deride Baby Doe.
Silver Dollar is a 1932 American pre-Code biographical film starring Edward G. Robinson, Bebe Daniels and Aline MacMahon.Based on David Karsner's biography of the same name, it tells the story of the rise and fall of Horace Tabor (renamed Yates Martin), a silver tycoon in 19th century Colorado.
Last year the body of a child in Boston, known as "Baby Doe," was identified with the help of pollen found at the crime scene. Her mother and her mother's boyfriend were charged in her death.
Matchless mine and Baby Doe Tabor cabin. Horace Tabor divorced his wife of 25 years and married Baby Doe McCourt on September 30, 1882, [17] who was half his age. Tabor was by then a US senator, and the divorce and marriage caused a scandal in Colorado and beyond.
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