Chester Congdon Research Paper

Murder, mystery, intrigue; these are the words of what you would normally find describing a game of clue, or a gripping, ghastly, ghostly tale found in old thriller movies where the climax is when you find out the butler killed him with a candlestick in the billiards room. The word “scandal” certainly couldn’t apply to our own home state when the closest we come to murder is in a board game or Hollywood setup; but this is where we visit the setting of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota. Chester Condon and his family were the names whispered around the words of “scandal” and “money misers.” In this paper, I will tell the tale of the Congdons, and show you where a horror movie or board game comes to our own backyard.
Chester Congdon built his
He liked that she understood her math lessons each day.
On September 29, 1881, Chester and Clara got married in Syracuse, New York. They didn’t have a honeymoon because of the costs.
Clara had suffered a severe hearing loss in her early forties and carried a hearing aid and large battery with a microphone around her neck (Kimball 26).
One year after the wedding, Clara and Chester had their first child, Walter. By 1898, Clara and Chester had six children; Helena, Marjorie, Elizabeth, Walter, Edward and Robert. Elizabeth was named after Clara’s maternal grandmother (Kimball
Then went to Miss Congdons room and found empty jewelry box that had a 13 charmed bracelet, for each of her grand children and an empty wicker basket that contained a gold coin. When they checked for finger prints they didn’t find any out of the ordinary fingerprint but, when they took the hair in for a sample test, they found a match to Roger Caldwell’s. The police fequered out that Roger needed money and was planning on asking Miss Congdon for some of the trust fund money she had set a side for her adopted daughter, Marjorie