SIXTEEN MILLIONS.
LONDON, April 22. The fortune of the late Mr Marshall Field (of Chicago) has been definitely appraised at sixteen millions sterling-. Mr Marshall Field, who was born at Conway, Massachusetts, in 1835.. spent his | boyhood days on a farm. He studied at an academy until 1852, and then became a dry j goods clerk in store at Pittsburg. _ After \ • four years' experience at this calling he j went to Chicago, where he spent another four years at the same occupation. From 1860 till 1865 he was junior partner, and then senior partner, in'a house, which in the latter year became Field, Palmer, and Leiter. Two years later Mr Palmer retired, and in 1881 Mr Leiter also retired, Mr Field becoming head of the firm of Marshall Field and Co., which subsequently had the largest wholesale and retail dry : goods business in the world. Mr Field founded with a gift of 1,000,000d01s the. Field Columbian Museum of Chicago, and he gave land worth 200,000d01s to the Unij vereity of Chicago, ■
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Otago Witness, Issue 2928, 27 April 1910, Page 22
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