WEALTHY WOMAN ILL
ONCE RICHEST IN AA'ORLD. Mrs Edith Rockfeller McCormack is ill and is not expected to live. Once known as the world’s richest woman, she has lost from £6,000,000 to £8,000,000 in Chicago real estate and investment speculations in the last three years and was recently compelled. to borrow £IOO,OOO against her thousand-acres Gold Coast mansion. She closed that temporarily, and lies ill in a small suite in the Drake Hotel.. Her brother, John Rockefeller, junr., paid her his first visit for many years, and her daughter Ouriel, who was estranged from her when she divorced Harold McCormick 11 years ago, is at her bedside.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 226, 24 August 1932, Page 7
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107WEALTHY WOMAN ILL Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 226, 24 August 1932, Page 7
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