Evelyn Greeley

[1][2] Contemporary publicity incorrectly called her the granddaughter of Horace Greeley,[3] and gave her place of birth as Lexington, Kentucky; she actually immigrated from Bremen, Germany to Baltimore, Maryland under the name Emilie Mahorko[4] on the S.S. Munchen on September 1, 1897, with her mother and five siblings: Adeline, William, Frances, Lucille and Frank.

[5] Her death certificate reverses her parents' surnames to Stephen Huber and Frances Marko.

[6][7] Greeley is said to have attended the Frances Shimer Academy, now known as Shimer College, and the University School for Girls in Chicago,[7] but some researchers have regarded this account of her education as simply another part of her "fictional life story".

Her contract with World Film ended in 1920, and in the ensuing years she appeared in pictures produced by several different companies.

Greeley, who had been billed in the newspapers as the "most proposed-to woman in America",[9] married for the first time to John Smiley on October 25, 1922.