Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham

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Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham (1867–1917) was an American philanthropist and heiress. She married Henry Flagler, one of the richest men of the Gilded Age. She outlived him, inheriting his fortune, and married again three years later, before dying under suspicious circumstances at age fifty. She left the millions she inherited to members of her family and to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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