Gilded Age Crime: E. R. Thomas

Edward Russell Thomas (December 30, 1875 – July 6, 1926) was an American businessman and sportsman. He was also a menace of the #GildedAge considered to behave with such poor manners his poor example would serve Etiquette writer #EmilyPost in later years.

Sources:

Emily Post, Etiquette (1922)

Claridge, Laura. Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners (Random House, 2008).

Find A Grave, "Kenneth Oscar Bailey", https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69334632/kenneth_oscar-bailey

Find A Grave, " #SamuelFinleyThomas", https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/251098647/samuel_finley-thomas

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