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Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham (1867–1917) was an American philanthropist and heiress who became notorious when she married one of the richest men of the Gilded Age. Mary Lily outlived her first husband, Henry Flagler, inherited his huge fortune, married again three years later, and died 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.[1]

  1. ^ "Carolina's Early Benefactors: Mary Lily Kenan Flager Bingham". The Carolina Story: A Virtual Museum of University History. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 27 March 2023.

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