Title The notorious Mrs. Clem : murder and money in the Gilded Age / Wendy Gamber.

Publication Info.	Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
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Description	xi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-295) and index.
Contents	New Year's Day -- Business -- Cold Spring -- Detection -- Trial -- Self-reliant and God defiant! -- Knowed it was them -- I wish I was an angel -- A good soldier -- Lebanon -- The Indiana murderess -- Indiana justice -- I kept it rolling -- Aunty Smith -- Mrs. Dr. Patterson.
Summary	In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of Indiana's White River. Suspicion for both deaths turned to Nancy Clem, a housewife who was also one of Mr. Young's former business partners. Wendy Gamber chronicles the life and times of this charming and persuasive Gilded Age confidence woman, who became famous not only as an accused murderess but also as an itinerant peddler of patent medicine and the supposed originator of the Ponzi scheme.
Subject	Clem, Nancy E.
	Clem, Nancy E. (OCoLC)fst00390064
	Women murderers -- Indiana -- Biography.
	Murder -- Indiana -- Case studies.
	Crime -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century.
	Indiana -- History -- 19th century.
	Crime. (OCoLC)fst00882984
	Murder. (OCoLC)fst01029781
	Women murderers. (OCoLC)fst01178169
	Indiana. (OCoLC)fst01204604
	HISTORY / United States / General.
	HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).
	HISTORY / Women.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Biographies.
ISBN	9781421420202 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
	1421420201 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

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