Hawley Harvey Crippen conclusions are disputed. Crippen was born in Coldwater, Michigan, to Andresse Skinner (died 1909) and Myron Augustus Crippen (1827–1910), a merchant. Crippen studied first at the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical School and graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College in 1884. Crippen's first wife, Charlotte, died of a stroke in 1892, and Crippen entrusted his parents, living in California, with the care of his two-year-old son, Hawley Otto. Having qualified as a homeopath, Crippen started to practice in New York, where in 1894 he married his second wife, Corrine "Cora" Turner (stage name: Belle Elmore), born Kunigunde Mackamotski to
James Inglis (physician) he named after Christopher Rawson, the founder of the Halifax Literary & Philosophical Society. Interested in phrenology, Dr. Inglis researched the brain of Eugene Aram, an infamous English murderer. Dr. Inglis was a Freemason and a past Master of the Yorkshire Lodge in Halifax. Dr. Inglis married Louisa Rawson (ca. 1826-1909), the daughter of Jeremiah Rawson, Esq., on 3 May 1842 at St. John the Baptist Church in Halifax. The couple had the following children: A great-granddaughter of Dr. Inglis was Surrealist performance artist Sheila Legge. A brother-in-law of Dr. Inglis, and a fellow physician, was Dr. Charles Ransford. Dr.