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Jul 20, 2016 · Why did Florence Foster Jenkins leave her first husband? After Florence's father refused to financially support her desire to continue to study music, she rebelled and left town with Dr. Frank Thornton Jenkins (1852-1917), who was sixteen years her senior.
Aug 13, 2016 · Elle s'enfuit à Philadelphie et se marie avec Frank Thornton Jenkins, qui lui refile la syphilis, et de qui elle divorcera en 1902.
Aug 10, 2016 · Born into a wealthy Wilkes-Barre, Pa. family in 1868, Jenkins moved to Manhattan after a failed marriage (to Frank Thornton Jenkins, from whom she contracted syphilis) and the death of her...
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On July 11, 1883, ten days after the funeral of her sister and eight days before her 15th birthday, Florence married Dr. Francis Thornton Jenkins, a physician 16 years her senior, in Philadelphia (in 1880, the age of consent for marriage in Pennsylvania was ten).
May 4, 2016 · The reason their union was never consummated was that Jenkins had contracted syphilis from her first husband, Dr Frank Thornton Jenkins, a compulsive womaniser.
Thus, in order to follow her dream, 17-year-old Florence ran away with Frank Thornton Jenkins, a physician who was 16 years older than her. They eloped and got married in Philadelphia. Their relationship lasted for a year, until Florence discovered he had given her syphilis, a disease that was incurable at that time.
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Born Nascina Florence Foster, she was married briefly to a doctor, Frank Thornton Jenkins. A significant inheritance following her father's death allowed Jenkins to pursue her musical Florence Foster Jenkins as the Angel of Inspiration.
