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Joseph Bowne Elwell
Joseph Bowne Elwell (1874 – June 11, 1920), was an American bridge player, tutor, and writer during the 1900s and 1910s, prior to and during development of the auction bridge version of the card game. He is best known as the victim of an unsolved murder.
== Life ==
J. B. Elwell was the son of Joseph E. Elwell, a student at Phillips Academy, Andover, and an insurance agent as a teenager. He learned the new card game "bridge"—now called bridge whist or straight bridge to distinguish it from later versions—in the course of establishing a young men's club in church, where its play was a popular activity. His fascination with it took over his life.〔
Elwell married Helen Derby, who also liked the game. She was socially well-connected, her cousin Richard Derby having married Ethel Roosevelt.〔 Elwell's other social connections included his auction bridge partner Harold Stirling Vanderbilt.〔 Such connections provided him with affluent students and with gambling opportunities; he became wealthy enough ultimately to own property in Palm Beach, 20 horses, 5 cars, and a yacht.〔 He also took a fancy to some of his female students and acquaintances and developed a reputation as a womanizer.〔 By 1916 his wife took their son Richard and filed for separation; by 1920 she was negotiating a divorce.〔
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