WEALTHY RECLUSE
LIFE IN SHUTTERED HOUSE
NEW YOBK, 2Sth July. '!- The last of six sisters, Miss Ella Weudel, aged 80, now becomes the sole heir to an unbroken realty accumulation of two centuries, worth £25,000,---000. . . .;..-..'..
Their only brother, John Gottle-ib Wendel, opposed marriage for'the sisters on the ground that it would disperse the estate and introduce other names. To prevent such ah occurrence he built a mansion in 1856 which still stands shuttered from Fifth Avenrtey lighted by gas only, and without .a telephone, radio, or phonograph. - ■- Until their eyesight faded th« ■"sisters invariably'dressed in black,: and made., their own clothes without >he. aid of a sewing machine. Rebecca Swope, who has just died, was' the .onlyi one to marry. When she wedded, her blither forbade the other sisters ever to attend church.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 9
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133WEALTHY RECLUSE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 9
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