FORTUNE FOR A BUTLER
Married His 72-Year-Old Employer
Butler, soldier, husband of an American millionairess —and now a widower with a substantial and asBured income. These are phases in the life romance of John Burden, a middle-aged Scotsman, whose elopement two years ago with his 72-year-old employer, Mrs. J. Pierrepont Edwards, caused a sensation in New York society circles. Mrs. Edwards, whose first husband was the American Consul-General in Great Britain, took Burden back into
her service as butler on bls demobilisation from the Black Watch at the end of the war,'and after their secret marriage they lived in a large house in a New York suburb. She died recently, and her will provides that if relatives contest the substantial trust fund she established for her second husband he is to be given outright the securities from which the income Is derived. The residue of the estate, which is believed to amount to nearly £1.000,000, is left to children and grandchildren.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 68, 13 December 1930, Page 29
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161FORTUNE FOR A BUTLER Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 68, 13 December 1930, Page 29
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