EXTRAORDINARY WILL
VALUABLE AMERICAN ESTATE. WORCESTER (Massachusetts), Friday. One of the longest and strangest wills ever recorded in this State was filed today. It is a 110-page document disposing of the £550,000 estate of Mr Albert Whitin, whose family founded Whitinsville and owns manufactories there. Mr Whiitn, who was a bachelor, went to Paris in 1914 for a brief visit, and never returned, dying there last month.
The will distributes the estate among scores of persons, some of whom were not known personally to him. The beneficiaries range from Lord Howard, former Ambassador for Great Britain in the United States of America, to the gardener of the Whitin home. Many of the beneficiaries are dead. Lord Howard receives £2OOO, and his five children £SOOO altogether. Two thousand pounds arc bequeathed to Mr Whitin’s nurse, who 'died three years ago, aged 103 years. The largest bequest is to a niece, £BO,OOO, with an addition £50,000 if she will return and live at Mr Whitin’s old home in Massachusetts.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 April 1935, Page 5
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