FORTUNE FROM FASHION.
WEALTH DERIVED FROM NEW YORK'S "FOUR HUNDRED." The profits from a dressmaking establishment which caters exclusively for New York's "Four Hundred" is indicated by the accounting of the estate of the late Mrs. Josefa Oiiborn, which, the executors announce, will yield an income of £10,000 a year to Mrs. Osborne's daughter, a girl of seventeen years. All tills money was made by Mrs. Osborn in her business venture.
Mrs. Osborn, who was descended from Colonel Nielson, the bosom friend of George Washington, married Robert Osborn, a well-known and wealthy New Yorker. Later she divorced him, and started to earn her living by opening a couturxere's establishment. She had many friends • am ° society women -™ was fe t&ffXL2r «sines 3 by her artistic taste m dresses. JtiSkSL** P shm estato has been in the hands ° trustees, Who have just rendered their account. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15002, 25 May 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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143FORTUNE FROM FASHION. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15002, 25 May 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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