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Sarah Althea Hill (March 26, 1850 – February 14, 1937) was a socialite, mistress, and mentally unstable woman with a history of violent behavior who became a national celebrity when she sued millionaire Senator William Sharon for divorce, citing adultery, in 1883.
Mar 5, 2019 · The Scandalous Saga of Senator Sharon and Sarah Althea Hill. Posted on March 5, 2019 by nancyleek. In San Francisco, on Saturday, September 8, 1883, William Sharon, a former U.S. Senator from Nevada and a wealthy man about town, was arrested on a charge of adultery.
Sep 19, 2023 · It seems like Almost Yesterday that Sarah Althea Hill of Cape Girardeau, Missouri became one of the most controversial and mysterious women in the United States. Born in 1850, Sarah was the...
Thirty year old Sarah Althea Hill had been the mistress of 60 year old silver millionaire and former U.S. Senator William Sharon. When he ended the relationship and took up with another woman, she sued for divorce, claiming adultery.
Aug 14, 2014 · If they were looking forward to their quiet golden years, they must have been greatly disappointed at the turn life took when the tempestuous Sarah Althea Hill came to town. She swept through the city, scattering destruction in her wake.
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Jun 2, 2017 · Sara Althea Hill. That image was solidified in the infamous Sharon v. Sharon case in which David Terry’s wife—Sarah Althea Hill was her maiden name—alleged that Senator William Sharon had secretly married and discarded her.
The Sharon Trials. Sarah Althea Hill was a real beauty, a buxom, slender strawberry blonde with an engaging smile who broke upon the San Francisco social scene in the 1870s as a fascinatingly beautiful, witty, and intelligent young Southern lady of good family, possessed of moderate wealth, a woman readily welcomed into the city's best social ...
