On January 22 , 1919 , Bartlett would marry his second wife , Helen Louise Birch , a close friend of Dora . Birch , born February 27 , 1883 , was thirty-six years old , compared to her husband who was forty-five . Prior to her marriage , Helen Birch was both a published composer and poet . She studied music with the German expatriate Bernhard Ziehn , a music theorist and teacher of harmony and composition in Chicago . She was an avid supporter of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago-based Poetry magazine . Helen Birch was the daughter of Maria Root Birch and Hugh Taylor Birch . After the Great Chicago Fire , Hugh Birch became a named partner in the law firm of Galt , Birch and Galt . In 1872 , he would become the first State 's Attorney of Cook County , Illinois and eventually move to the area that currently is Fort Lauderdale , Florida
Great Chicago Fire
Great Chicago Fire
Frederic Clay Bartlett