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<br /> <br /> <br />Painting by Mary Whittlesey Kotz <br /> <br />Interestingly, one account writes that it was Mary Whittlesey who pursued her prized Daniel <br />Kotz having met him through artistic circles painting oils and watercolors. But another <br />account records that it was Daniel that pursued Mary Whittlesey taking her rowing on a <br />sketching tour along the St. Joseph River. Perhaps both being true, their coming together <br />was in itself an whirlwind romance, a love story wrought together by mutual passions for <br />the arts. And swirled therein, perhaps even as distractions, were politics, wealth, struggle, <br />and colorful palette full of hard work. <br />