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Alice de Janz, ne Silverthorne , also known as Alice de Trafford and holder of the noble title Comtesse de Janz for a few years, was an American heiress who spent years in Kenya as a member of the Happy Valley set of colonials. She was connected with numerous scandals, including the attempted murder of her lover in 1927, and the 1941 murder of The 22nd Earl of Erroll in Kenya. Her tempestuous life was marked by promiscuity, drug abuse and several suicide attempts.
Alice was born in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, the only child of textile industrialist William Edward Silverthorne and wife, Julia Belle Chapin a relative to the Armour family, of meatpacking success through the Armour amp Company brand, at the time the largest food products company in the world. Silverthorne was a first cousin, once removed, to J. Ogden Armour and greatniece to Philip Danforth Armour and Herman Ossian Armour, the granddaughter of their sister Marietta, who left much of her estate to her mother, Julia, in 1897. William and Julia were married in Chicago onJune 1892, the city where Alice spent most of her childhood and adolescence, living with her parents in the affluent Gold Coast district. Alice herself became a favorite of her cousin, J. Ogden Armour. Her familys great wealth prompted her childhood friends to take a cue from her surname and give her the nickname Silver Spoon.
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