AMAZING FORTUNE
AGED' SPINSTER HEIRESS. New York, July 30. The last ol six sisters ( Miss Ella Wendel, aged 80, now becomes the sole heiress to an unbroken realty accumulation of two centuries, worth £25,000,000. The only brother, John Gottleib Wendel, opposed marriage for the sisters on the ground that it would disperse the estate and introduce other names.. To prevent such an occurrence he built a mansion in 1856 which still stands shuttered from Fifth Avenue, lighted- by gas only, and without a telephone, radio or phonograph. Until their eyesight faded- the sisters invariably dressed in black, and made their own clothes without tho aid of a sewing machine! Rebecca Swope, who has just died, was the only one to marry. When she was wedded her brother forbade the other sisters ever to attend church.
Mrs. • Swope and her sister avoided public mention for many years. The fortune was founded by their grandfather, who invested the profits of his fur business in real estate. He never sold good -real estate once he had acquired it, and his heirs adhered to the plan.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1930, Page 11
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