Frank Bliss Enslow
( 1853 - 1917 )

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The name Enslow has been a familiar one in Huntington since 1871, when railroad contractor Andrew Jackson Enslow arrived to help build the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. His son, Frank Bliss Enslow (1853-1917), grew up in Huntington and entered the practice of law with Henry C. Simms. In addition to his law practice, Enslow had extensive business interests in banking, oil and gas and other fields. Local legend credits him with being thr city's first millionaire. Certainly his opulent 26 room mansion at 1128 Third Ave. with its marble fireplaces, Tiffany chandeliers and stained glasss windows, was a local showplace. Buily in the 1890's the enslow manson was a center of Huntington social life in that long ag0era. Drcades later, the elegant mansion would also be the scene of one of Huntington's most famous mysteries when, on the morming of Oct. 17, 1936. the millionaire  businessman's widow, Juliette Buffington Enslow, was found dead ----- beaten, stabbed and strangled---- in her second floor bedroom. Her murder was never solved. The mansion later housed the steele Funeral Home for a number of years before it burned.

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