ABBY ROCKEFELLER

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17527, 2 May 1925, Page 19

ABBY ROCKEFELLER

WORLD’S RICHEST HEIRESS. TO MARRY LAW CLERK. (Special to the ‘‘Star.’-) SAN FRANCISCO, March i 3. America, the country where the Almighty Dollar, long has been nationally worshipped galore, has just rubbed its eyes with supreme surprise at a curiosity in matrimonial affairs, in the announced engagement of Miss Abby Rockefeller, the richest heiress an the woild, tlio will marry David .vlerri wether Milton junr, a young law ilerki but a member ol a family comparable to the Rockefeller clan in social prestige. He is a graduate of Williams and Columbia Daw Schools. The question that has intrigued American society, as well as European society, as t t > who would marry Miss Abby Rockefeller, daughter of the fabulously_ wealthy John D. Rockefeller, the oil king, apparently has been, answered at lust. They will appear before the altar in May, the loveliest month in America’s spring. And since Miss Rockefeller’a fiance is only a law clerk in the modest offices of iSutterJeo and Canfield, of 27, "William Street, Kew York, at present, preparing for bis admission to the bar, they will, after the honeymoon, which has not yet been decided upon, live in an apartment in JNew York. Young Milton is the son of David K. ‘Milton, a prominent lawyer and descendant of Merriwether Lewis, of the Dewis and Clarke expedition in the West, and a long line 0 1 : bankers’ cm the British side of the Atlantic Ocean. He died in 1913. His. mother lives at 125, Last Fifty-seventh Street, in New York. She was formerly Been Hunt Fisk, and was born 11 Louisville, Kentucky, daughter of Albertrisk, one ol the most picturesque fig--tires in the romantic history of railway annals of the United States AlilTun • junr. served in tlio naval reserve l„™

>t the Yale University naval unit duri* g tbe World War. The sugagemenb • the culmination of a boy and girl* I attachment, which had its inception! in summers jpent on neighbouring estates in Pocantico Hills, where John’ U , senr, lives in retirement. The pair ent-s of David Milton were for a great! many years neighbours of Mr and M**s' A .K'kefeller at Pocantico Hills, and* i :.vdss Rockefeller jnd David Milton met! as childhood playmates. CHEAP APARTMENT WANTED. A bride and grooin-to-be, tlio young •couple quickly entered upon the duties of domestic life and .vent n-bunting ior a modest apartment somewhere! ,'iear Park Avenue ind Sixtieth Street, but nob in the avenue itself, because rents are too expensive there for the grand-daiTgliter c>f the richest man in the world and her jawyer sweetheart. (I lie couple are going to live w ithin' Milton’s modest income. Abby will’ manage her own housework, and keep a budget. They will do without an* automobile at first, but “hope to have one later.” And Miss Abby will be' well able to do all that, her father. John J>. Rockefeller, junr. said through a spokesman, because be hod trained his daughters and her brothers to know the value of money so that they might* “meet the problems file will present* when they must act for themselves.” NN Idle she was being envied as one of Die richest youngsters in the world, .Miss Abby, aged seven, had exactly ICI cents a week which she might squander. Her total allowance was JO cents, but she was taught to save 10 cents and put the other dime in the Sunday* school collection plate. None of the Rock feller children had more than two dollars a week which they might call their own before they were 15;' before and since that time thev have been required to keep accounts of their expenditures by their father, who pen a Used or rewarded them bv the accuracy of the accounts, .which he always audited. Lately M i.ss Abby has had a larger allowance but she was compelled to provide her own clothes, entertainment/ and travel from it, and keep the accounts, so that now her father feels that she is self-reliant, “knows the value of money,” and is able to assume the responsibilities of a house-