LONG AND STRANGE
MASSACHUSETTS WILL
DISTRIBUTION OF DOLLARS
NEW YORK, April 11,
A message from Worcester, Massachusetts, states that one of the longest and strangest wills ever recorded in this State was filed today. It is a 110-page document' disposing of ■ . the l,750;000-dollar estate of Mr. Albert Whitin, whose family founded Whitihsville. and owns manufactories there. Mr. Whitin, who was a bachelor, went to Paris in 1914 for 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 dollars altogether. 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 and live at Mr. Whitin's old home in Mas-, sachusetts. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 88, 13 April 1935, Page 9
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189LONG AND STRANGE Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 88, 13 April 1935, Page 9
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