EXTRAORDINARY WILL
Estate of Two Million Dollars AMERICAN BACHELOR Impoverished English Poet Benefits SOME UNKNOWN PEOPLE My Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright. (Received April 12, 7 p.m.) Worcester, Massachusetts, April 11. One of Hie longest and strangest wills ever recorded in this State was filed to-day. It is a 110-page document disposing of the 1,750,000-dollar estate of Mr. Albert Whitin, whose family founded Whitinsville and owns manufactories there. Mr. Whitin, who "t as a bachelor, went to Paris in 1014 a brief visit, and never returned, dying there last month. The will distributes the estate among scores of persons, some of whom were not known personally to him. The beneficiaries range from Lord Howard, former ambassador for Great Britain in the United States of America, to the gardener of the Whitin home. Many of the beneficiaries are dead. Lord Howard receives 10,000 dollars and his five children 25,000 dobais at together. An impoverished English poet receives 5000 dollars. Ten thousand dollars is bequeathed to Mr. Whitin’s nurse, who died three years ago. aged 103 years. The largest bequest is to a niece, 400,000 dollars, with an additional 250,000 dollars if she will return ami live at Mr. Whitin’s old home in Massachusetts.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 169, 13 April 1935, Page 7
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200EXTRAORDINARY WILL Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 169, 13 April 1935, Page 7
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