UNEXPECTED LEGACY
Samoan Resident’s Fortune LEFT BY HIS GODFATHER (Rec-. August 30, 5.5 p.m.) Apia, August 28. While quietly building a church at Funafuti, an' old resident of Samoa, Mr. Wellesley Foster, son of a former American Consul at Tahiti, was advised by the Government of American Samoa that he had become heir to 2,000,000 dollars in property and 500,000 dollars in cash in Florida, left him by an American who stood godfather to him 59 years , ago. Mr. Foster, who is married, and is now the richest, man in the Islands, is negotiating for the purchase of a fine residence near Government House, Vailima.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 287, 31 August 1931, Page 9
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105UNEXPECTED LEGACY Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 287, 31 August 1931, Page 9
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