£110,000,000 HEIRESS
“POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL” America’s “poor littl e rich girl,” Miss lluguette Clark, recently married a New York banker, Mr William McDonald Dower, connected with Seligman and Company. The bride obtained her nickname after the death in 1925 of her father, Senator Clark, of Montana, who left a fortune of £110,000,000. He had made an adequate will bequeathing the bulk of his estate to Huguette, her mother, and four children by his first wife. But the report was spread abroad that the Senator had died intestate, whereupon nearly every Clark in the world began Io claim kinship. For years “poor little rich girl” was forced to fight for her inheritance. Believing his daughter should learn early to handle money. Senator Clark instituted that she receive until the age of 21 £l5OO a month. Her engagement to Mr Dower was announced soon after her debut < year ago.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 10
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