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Survivor(s): Elsie Mabel Rows. Predeceased: T. Berton Kerr, Joseph Crosskill, Elizabeth Crosskill, Frank Crosskill, Wilbert Crosskill, Irene Breadner-Erskine, Florence Hudson, Helen Crosskill, Olive Erskine, Ethel Crosskill and Lovema White.²

Predeceased: Charles Wilbert Crosskill and Garnet W Bowins.²

Is Marton Creyer a variant spelling of Krieger?
     Are Martin Krieger and Marton Creyer the same person?⁵

FATE GUIDES MILLIONAIRE, AGED 70, TO BRIDE IN SHOP
     Marshall Burns Lloyd, Baby Carriage Maker, Was Diverted From French Lick to Florida, and There Found Romance With Widow, 55.
     Marshall Burns Lloyd, who is about 70 years old and has made several million dollars manufacturing baby carriages out In Menominee, Mich. was married yesterday (sic) at the Brick Presbyterian church in Fifth avenue to Mrs. Tourlette Pollen, who is about 55 years old and lived at 209 Taylor street, Orange, N. J.
     They went to the Robert Treat Hotel, Newark, after the ceremony, and there Mr. Lloyd told about his life, how he made his fortune, and how his romance with Mrs. Pollen began. Fate, he explained. was responsible.
     "Maybe they all say that." said Mr. Lloyd. "Anyhow, permit me to quote these three lines from Ella Wheeler Wilcox:

     There is no chance, no destiny, no fate.
     Can circumvent or hinder or control
     The firm resolve of a determined soul.

     "I used those lines in advertizing baby carriages, but they are just as applicable to my case as they are to baby carriages. Usually 1 have gone to French Lick, Ind., for my health, but this year I went to Florida. If 1 hadn't I never would have met the woman who Is now my bride. I met her in a novelty store in Florida. She waited on me and her manner was so courteous that we became friends. I later went to Orange and asked her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Neals Hammer, if 1 could marry her, and they said they guessed it would all right. We will go to California in a day or two and then we will go back to Menominee, Mich., to live."
     Mr. Lloyd said he was at one time a mall carrier with a dog train between Port Arthur and Pigeon River in Canada. He got his start as a waiter, he said, and then bought and sold land until he got some money ahead. He invented a process of making wicker by machinery, and through that he went into the baby carriage business.²

COURT GIVES LLOYD'S FIRST WIFE 25,000
     Judge Refuses Claim Of Estranged Widow Who Asked Million Dollars
     Menominee, Mich., June 29. (JP) An appeal from the decision of Judge Frank Bell, handed down Thursday awarding her $25,000 in lieu of alimony after she had sued for a $1.000, 000 in the estate of Marshall B. Lloyd, was asked by Mrs. Margaret Isadora Lloyd in a message to her attorneys. She requested that the appeal be taken to the Michigan supreme court.
     Menominee. Mich., June 29. — (AP) — Instead of the million dollars she sought, Margaret Isadora Lloyd, divorced wife of the late Marshall B. Lloyd, wealthy Menominee manufacturer, today could claim only $25,000 from his estate. That sum was allowed her in lieu of alimony in a decision handed down by Circuit Judge Frank Bell.
     The judge in his decision upheld Lloyd's divorce from her on grounds ot desertion, declined to recognize her claim that she was Lloyd's legal wife because she said she had not deserted him but had been sent away, and gave her interest on the $25,000 from the time she filed her claim last September. She had sought the million as the widow's share of the Lloyd estate.
     Whether an appeal will be taken from the award rests largely with Michael J. Doyle, chief counsel for Mrs. Lloyd. He is ill in a hospital and will not be shown the decision for several weeks.
     As far as the defense is concerned, Atty. Isaac B. Lipson of Chicago, chief counsel, told the Assocated (sic) Press that the "defendants are satisfied; we will not appeal."
     Alimony Question Late
     "The judicial record imparts verity," Judge Bell's decision said. The question of alimony has never been before cited until the present hearing. As En injured spouse Margaret Lloyd might well have been allowed one-fourth of his property but as an erring one, much less but still something."
     He upheld the divorce, granted in 1920 and declared that despite the testimony given by Frank Lloyd, a disinherited son, concerning alleged immorality on the part of Lloyd, "there is nothing in the case which lays its foundation in facts worthy of any credence, which casts as much as a shadow over the good name of the dead or living."
     Lloyd was re-married several years after his divorce to Henrietta Lloyd, who is still living. "
     here is nothing in the evidence," head the decision," to require the court to set aside the decree and to declare her, the legal wife."
     "We may now view the progress of Marshall B. Lloyd as far as it affects this case," the decision went on. "He was of an inventive turn of mind. Generally, he was much absorbed in his patents; eccentric sometimes but he was business man enough to secure the fruits of his inventions.
     Lloyd Claimed Desertion
     "By the time the plaintiff separated from him he was manager and part owner of a manufacturing establishment using his inventions, which employed 500 men, he was mayor of Menominee and looked upon as a man of wealth.
     "The plaintiff knew this. The record-in the divorce decree, though meager, shows Marshall B. Lloyd claimed the plaintiff deserted him.
     "Marshall B. Lloyd is dead. The mouth of the plaintiff is closed. She offered her own testimony as far as she could go as to an occurrence from which the court was asked to draw the inference that Marshall B. Lloyd was not true to her; that she described his predelictions (sic) to wander far from the fold and that she left him because of this and that he escorted her to the train when they forever severed marital relations.
     "She supports this, or attempts to, by testimony of a disinherited son of Marshall Lloyd to effect that the latter confessed his infidelity to him. This son so promptly appears in suit and concedes claim of plaintiff that in view of his disinheritance it is rather difficult to believe he is entirely disinterested and conviction is forced that his story loses nothing in telling. However the truth may be the evidence here relative to Mr. Lloy'ds (sic) conduct arouses at most suspicion and cannot be permitted to outweigh solemn decree of this court made nine years ago, declaring plaintiff guilty of desertion. The judicial record imports verily."
     Little Appeal to Court
     Relative to the claim of plaintiff of lack of jurisdiction by court in granting divorce decree because of errors in service papers involved, the court in substance said there was no showing that the plaintiff was misled by such errors. What showing was made, he said, "has little appeal to court at this late day," in view of the fact she was able to vigorously assert her claimed rights less than two months after the death of Mr. Lloyd after a silence of seven years.
     "So far as the evidence in this case concerns their characters, Marshall B. Lloyd may sleep in peace and the two women who were his wives may go forth worthy of respect."⁹

RECORD INHERITANCE TAX IS COLLECTED FROM LLOYD ESTATE
     Menominee Manufacturer Leaves Over Million and a Half to Fifteen Heirs
     MENOMINEE, Mich The second largest inheritance tax ever paid In Menominee county, $27,321.24, less a discount of five percent for payment within a year of death, was paid Saturday by the estate of Marshall B. Lloyd, millionaire manufacturer of Menominee.
     The estate comprised $1,548,900 personal property and $0.1,101 real property, an inventory showed. Exemptions, expenses and other matters cut the taxable amount to $980,552.53.
     The heirs include 15 relatives beside the window, Mrs. Henrietta Lloyd.
     The Lloyd estate just a few months ago was the defendant in a million dollar lawsuit filed by the Menominee manufacturers divorced second wife, Margaret Isadora Lloyd, who claimed that amount was due here as his legal widow. She was awarded, however, only $25,000 and that in lieu of alimony. Plans to appeal the case have been announced by her attorneys.
     Funeral expenses for Mr. Lloyd totaled $30,698.93 and the expense of administrating his estate was $197.913.71, the inheritance abstract shows. Exempt from taxation was the Marshall Lloyd trust fund of $234,642.78, the foundation of the charitable institution which Mr. Lloyd provided for Menominee.
     All the heirs except the widow receive annuities and upon their deaths the entire estate will revert to the charitable fund, which is to be devoted to establishment of a clinic for medical analysis and care of the sick.
     Note that the Marshall B. Lloyd clinic was not build until 1949 due to material scarcity and the war. It was disolved in 1980.¹⁰

Lloyd Estate Heirs Appear Before Court
     Demand Explanation On Reputed Dwindling Of Estate From Over Million To $350,000
     Menominee, Mich, ---- vp) - The heirs of Marshall Burns Lloyd, inventor and baby carriage manufacturer who died in 1027, were in court again today, this time de-mantling an explanation from Mrs. Henrietta Pollen Lloyd Merril, Milwaukee, and the Detroit Trust company, as to why the estate has reputedly dwindled from $1,617,000 to less than $350,000,
     Mrs. Merril (sic), Lloyd's third wife, obtained a widow's share of the estate after a sensational trial In 1928 when Margaret Isadora Lloyd, Los Angeles, his second wife, contested the will and maintained she had a legal right to the widow's share.
     Cyrus S. Lloyd, Los Angeles, brother of the manufacturer, yesterday charged that beneficiaries were not consulted in matters pertaining to the estate and said it was necessary to appeal to probate court for a hearing. The court set March 20 for the hearing.
     Lloyd with other heirs demanded a detailed accounting from Mrs. Merril (sic), co-executor, and the Trust company, trustees of the estate.
     The fortune ,according (sic) to statements filed in probate court here, started a toboggan when Margaret Lloyd won $25,000 back alimony in 1928. That case, the papers said, cost the estate more than $95,000. Trial expenses listed attorneys' fees of $35,000 for Isaac B. Kipson, Chicago; $18,700 for John O'Hara, Menominee; and $6,649 for G. Lester Field, Detroit. In addition, the attorneys were listed as having received $2,000 traveling expenses.
     In addition, the beneficiaries say, they want detailed information of other expenditures. They said the Detroit firm received $70,500 executor's fees when under Michigan laws they were entitled to but $17,000.¹¹

Survivor(s): John W. Lloyd.¹²

New Factory to Locate at Inglewood
     INGLEWOOD, June 2.--Lloyd's Products, Inc., a $200,000 corporation, has taken over a factory building on West Redondo Boulevard this city, where it will engage in the manufacture of children's furniture, including baby carriages and cribs. Frank C. Lloyd, president of the company, 13 a veteran in this line of business, having been the head of an eastern comnanv that a. tew years ago was absorbed by the Haywood Wakefield Company, nationally known makers of reed furniture. With Mr. Lloyd is associated in an executive capacity George S. Sils-bee, until recently of Boston.
     The company plans to begin production here with a force of fifty employees and it is anticipated that this number will be largely increased within a short time.
     The concern, which is said to be the only one on the Pacific Coast that will specialize in these lines, was secured for this community by the industrial committee of the Inglewood Chamber of Commerce, of which George L. Veach is chairman.¹⁸

Frank joined M.B. at the factory in Menominee, and married twice. Something went drastically wrong and he was disowned. In Marshall's will, I think he is left $10!

In a phone conversation on March 16, 2003, Jean Rhiness told me that Frank sent money to his mother. She thought this was admirable.^11,10

Look for 1930, 1940 and 1950 census for Frank Croskill Lloyd.