He enlisted in the U.S. army during the Spanish-American war.
He married twice. The first wife obtained a divorce after ten years of marriage on the grounds of cruelty and misconduct with chorus girls.
His second wife was a chorus girl and brought a child from a previous marriage.
Suffering from tuberculosis, de Raylan went to Phoenix, Arizona hoping for a cure, but died there. The telegram that announced his death also declared him to be a woman. Both wives insisted that this must be nonsense.
- Havelock Ellis. Studies in the Psychology of Sex
. Vol 2, part 2. Sexual Inversion 3rd edition. NY: Random House. 1936:248.
- Eugene de Savitsch. Homosexuality, Transvestism and Change of Sex
. Springfield Ill: Charles C. Thomas 1958: 6-7.
- Jonathan Katz. Gay American History: Lesbians And Gay Men In The U.S.A
. New York: Crowell 1976. New York: A Discus Book.1978: 379-381. Online at www.outhistory.org/wiki/New_York_Times:_death_of_Nicolai_de_Raylan,_June_26,_1907.
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