Noyes
Dorothea F. Noyes
(1903 - 1942)

Age 39. 210 South Ridge Road, Lake Forest, IL (lodging locally with her husband at 88 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA). Born on 6/25/1903, Chicago, IL. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Occupation: "at home" (death certificate). Husband Lieut. John Noyes, U.S.N.R., age 39, in special military training at Harvard University, also died. "His wife, Dorothea, could not be located, but their two children...were believed to have been left in the care of servants" (Illinois State Journal, Springfield, IL, 11/30/1942). "The body of Mrs. Noyes was not identified until early today [Monday]" (Chicago Daily Tribune, 11/30/1942). Couple was survived by sons John, Jr., age 12, and Nicholas, age 10. The older son, "...was notified of the death of his mother and father..." at St. Paul's School, in Concord, NH (Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, NH, 12/01/1942). Reported in the 12/23/1942 Chicago Daily Tribune that her personal estate of $450,000 was left in trust to the above sons (estate of her husband valued at $41,000 was willed directly to the orphaned boys). Was raised in Chicago. Married in 1927. The name "Agnes McNulty" (her mother's maiden name) was included on an early list published in the 11/29/1942 Boston Herald of those, "...admitted to the City Hospital," name was possibly found on some personal property. Shown by her popular-usage first name "Dorothy" on the final official Public Safety master list of casualties (was shown as "Dorothea" on her death certificate). Couple was one of 56 married pairs present to both perish, including 22 with children, resulting in 43 minors (under the age of 21) being orphaned (plus one minor daughter orphaned when her widowed father died). Late parents Mr. and Mrs. Dorr Eugene and Agnes (McNulty) Felt. Father co-founded Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Co., of Chicago, made his fortune as inventor of the Comptometer (computing device) and Comptograph (printing adding machine). A 25-room family summer home, built in 1928 at Laketown Township, MI, on Lake Michigan, was later designated on the list of National Historic Places. Burial with her husband at Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago. Middle name Felt.

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