Husband was Tom Plant (1858-1941). He was the owner of Thomas G. Plant Shoe Company. They built as estate Lucknow in New Hampshire. It is now know as Castle in the Clouds, a tourist attraction.
Suggested edit: Olive Cornelia Dewey, born on January 3, 1883, Toulon, Illinois, was a graduate of Wellesley College. Her passion was horseback riding, golf, theater, museums, opera, concerts, collecting exquisite wax candles and travel. While visiting France with her cousins, she met Thomas Gustave (T.G.) Plant, inventor of shoe making equipment and owner of the Thomas G. Plant Shoe Company, the largest manufacture of women shoes in the world (Queen Quality and Dorothy Dodd Shoes). Although 24 years his junior, she was quite taken with T.G., and shortly after his divorce to Caroline Griggs they were married in 1919.
Following their marriage they would spend much of their time with the company of William Franklin and Margaret Dobbins Plant, and their children Thomas Corey, Everett Dunbar, Amy Elizabeth, and William Franklin Plant, Jr. While on an overseas voyage Amy and Everett had written Olive and their uncle, T.G., about property they had discovered which they could build their dream estate which would be known as LuckNow, now Castle in the Clouds. They would also build a golf club and a retirement home for the elderly, Bald Peak Colony Club and the Plant Memorial Home.
Through her husband’s bad investments and the unwillingness to sell timber from their properties, her husband would die broke. They moved to Laconia, New Hampshire and following her husband's death in 1941, she was left to preserving their most cherished family possessions by leaving them in the care of the Plant Memorial Home in Bath, Maine. Olive moved with her companion, Nanley Palmer, to Laguna Beach, California, to be cared for by her brothers. Her only contact from the Plant family until her death on November 17, 1976, were visits from Amy and her great-nephew, Kenneth Plant, grandson of Everett.
Contributor: Kenneth Plant (49913613)
Suggested edit: Olive Cornelia Dewey, born on January 3, 1883, Toulon, Illinois, was a graduate of Wellesley College. Her passion was horseback riding, golf, theater, museums, opera, concerts, collecting exquisite wax candles and travel. While visiting France with her cousins, she met Thomas Gustave (T.G.) Plant, inventor of shoe making equipment and owner of the Thomas G. Plant Shoe Company, the largest manufacture of women shoes in the world (Queen Quality and Dorothy Dodd Shoes). Although 24 years his junior, she was quite taken with T.G., and shortly after his divorce to Caroline Griggs they were married in 1919.
Following their marriage they would spend much of their time with the company of William Franklin and Margaret Dobbins Plant, and their children Thomas Corey, Everett Dunbar, Amy Elizabeth, and William Franklin Plant, Jr. While on an overseas voyage Amy and Everett had written Olive and their uncle, T.G., about property they had discovered which they could build their dream estate which would be known as LuckNow, now Castle in the Clouds. They would also build a golf club and a retirement home for the elderly, Bald Peak Colony Club and the Plant Memorial Home.
Through her husband’s bad investments and the unwillingness to sell timber from their properties, her husband would die broke. They moved to Laconia, New Hampshire and following her husband's death in 1941, she was left to preserving their most cherished family possessions by leaving them in the care of the Plant Memorial Home in Bath, Maine. Olive moved with her companion, Nanley Palmer, to Laguna Beach, California, to be cared for by her brothers. Her only contact from the Plant family until her death on November 17, 1976, were visits from Amy and her great-nephew, Kenneth Plant, grandson of Everett.
Contributor: Kenneth Plant (49913613)
Husband was Tom Plant (1858-1941). He was the owner of Thomas G. Plant Shoe Company. They built as estate Lucknow in New Hampshire. It is now know as Castle in the Clouds, a tourist attraction.
Suggested edit: Olive Cornelia Dewey, born on January 3, 1883, Toulon, Illinois, was a graduate of Wellesley College. Her passion was horseback riding, golf, theater, museums, opera, concerts, collecting exquisite wax candles and travel. While visiting France with her cousins, she met Thomas Gustave (T.G.) Plant, inventor of shoe making equipment and owner of the Thomas G. Plant Shoe Company, the largest manufacture of women shoes in the world (Queen Quality and Dorothy Dodd Shoes). Although 24 years his junior, she was quite taken with T.G., and shortly after his divorce to Caroline Griggs they were married in 1919.
Following their marriage they would spend much of their time with the company of William Franklin and Margaret Dobbins Plant, and their children Thomas Corey, Everett Dunbar, Amy Elizabeth, and William Franklin Plant, Jr. While on an overseas voyage Amy and Everett had written Olive and their uncle, T.G., about property they had discovered which they could build their dream estate which would be known as LuckNow, now Castle in the Clouds. They would also build a golf club and a retirement home for the elderly, Bald Peak Colony Club and the Plant Memorial Home.
Through her husband’s bad investments and the unwillingness to sell timber from their properties, her husband would die broke. They moved to Laconia, New Hampshire and following her husband's death in 1941, she was left to preserving their most cherished family possessions by leaving them in the care of the Plant Memorial Home in Bath, Maine. Olive moved with her companion, Nanley Palmer, to Laguna Beach, California, to be cared for by her brothers. Her only contact from the Plant family until her death on November 17, 1976, were visits from Amy and her great-nephew, Kenneth Plant, grandson of Everett.
Contributor: Kenneth Plant (49913613)
Suggested edit: Olive Cornelia Dewey, born on January 3, 1883, Toulon, Illinois, was a graduate of Wellesley College. Her passion was horseback riding, golf, theater, museums, opera, concerts, collecting exquisite wax candles and travel. While visiting France with her cousins, she met Thomas Gustave (T.G.) Plant, inventor of shoe making equipment and owner of the Thomas G. Plant Shoe Company, the largest manufacture of women shoes in the world (Queen Quality and Dorothy Dodd Shoes). Although 24 years his junior, she was quite taken with T.G., and shortly after his divorce to Caroline Griggs they were married in 1919.
Following their marriage they would spend much of their time with the company of William Franklin and Margaret Dobbins Plant, and their children Thomas Corey, Everett Dunbar, Amy Elizabeth, and William Franklin Plant, Jr. While on an overseas voyage Amy and Everett had written Olive and their uncle, T.G., about property they had discovered which they could build their dream estate which would be known as LuckNow, now Castle in the Clouds. They would also build a golf club and a retirement home for the elderly, Bald Peak Colony Club and the Plant Memorial Home.
Through her husband’s bad investments and the unwillingness to sell timber from their properties, her husband would die broke. They moved to Laconia, New Hampshire and following her husband's death in 1941, she was left to preserving their most cherished family possessions by leaving them in the care of the Plant Memorial Home in Bath, Maine. Olive moved with her companion, Nanley Palmer, to Laguna Beach, California, to be cared for by her brothers. Her only contact from the Plant family until her death on November 17, 1976, were visits from Amy and her great-nephew, Kenneth Plant, grandson of Everett.
Contributor: Kenneth Plant (49913613)
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