“I have been nearly driven to distraction!”
So said Victoria Zaff Behan, with the culprit being her well-known husband, John Harris Behan. This was in 1875 when, after six years of a more-than-rocky marriage, the lady decided to call it quits.
Victoria had already seen her share of struggles. She hardly knew her father, who had left her German immigrant mother, Harriet (maiden name unknown), after the birth of her first two children, Benjamin, around 1847, and Catherine, in 1849
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