The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-08-10
The Heir to S35,OOO,OOO Discovered
in Farm House in Erie County,
New York.
From the Buffalo Express.

For some weeks past the Interest Of
the whole country has been excited by
paragl apis in Inc papers, relating TO a
fortune of s35.00O,GG0 in England, said
to have fallen TO a Mr.. iiaisey Church.
| of Stock bridge. Mass, ard IL hin been
/ :urtei over 20 his daughter and her bus
band, mechanic named Eli Walker, re-
siding in Hartford, Conn. We shall
probably astonish our readers this morn
ing by informing them that the claims Of
MIR. Hasey Church and of his daughter,
Mrs Eli Walker, have been completely
, overturned, and that the real heir Of this
vast piece Of property is an old resident
Ct Erie county, who for thirty years has
been living upon a modest farm within
sixteen miles OF Buffalo. The Monte
Christie thus suddenly elevated to rank
among the Roth,c biids and Astors, is
Mr.. John Church, Of WestphalIs, in he
township Of Aurora.
A week ago Saturday last, as Mr.
Church was reading the Christian hdy0
cate, to which he piously subscribes, bis
eyes fell upon one Of the paragraphs 10
which we have alluded, and his system,
we suppose, must have been slowly cleo
tIited By the intelligence it bore to bin.
In the name of Mr. ilasey Church. he
recognized that Of a younger brother, for
/ forty years neither seen nor heard from.
! Forty years ago, it seems, this John
Chnrch, now nearly eighty years Of age,
left his family relatives in Eas: ualdam,
! Mass, under some circumstances of disa-
greemeut which prevented any after
communication, and emigraeJ to the
/ then far West' Of Western n. y
/ Never afterwards heard from his younger
! brother ilalsey, the latter long ago re
! signed himself TO Ike conviction that
dealh had left him (Iialsey) alone, the
/ solitary representative OF the family
! Church Thus persuaded, he very na'u
i rally assumed TO himself the vast Engii-h
inheritance which turned up last fall, as
awaiting the Lciys Of his deceased father,
! Thomas Church; and being too feeble
withal, to undertake the acq ssition of the
property, TUNED it over to his daughter
and her husband, with a power Of attor
ney to proceed in his name. The lat.et
! employing Ex-Governor ThOs Seymour,
u o"""Ec'ic"', rs 'le'' 'oS"I a"' IHe''
'''' S"s'S.i7u 'ne'n-e.'5S "7 % ne e "A
tide, and were Just on the point of pro-,
ceeding to England, assisted By sub.cip
hon of means from their fgioads and
/ neiIhbors, ~hen their hoTos aud pans
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cars '~'"r'' 'o y, ''S'>.,''',Se''S [o0' Q"S'
~ Has i''",'y received 's''s'' rom ''H
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'|e' t'','' Is ms e'"f, "I0'c!e' ann 'He
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/ - ~. o'-',! fo"'' ', '',@' 49, "'U' man
/ " "'' MS HoAI sep VIII % we cannot
say. me age Of MT, ChurcA VIII an
/ 'o"o'eo,E prevent MS ''''jin| HhSi""0 10
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/ eAPsc'ed 70 make 'h6 } '"fHey soon,
Mr. OHnfch mas Two sons and i've
G""@ nleF5 IiVlHg, an married except one
/ OF the latter. The eldest son, John
OnuIch' r. Hvlng al GFlttins Mills, has
TWO young children lie younger son,
Ihauncy Church, whose WIFE Is the
daughter OF Dr. bishcP, OF Golden, lives
al Yves PhsIIs' ana mas one young son
vi t"e daughters, tle Youngest Lucy
10 'He VILE o. MI uiIHeft brC"o' OF Au'
/ io'a' Inc hext olHest daughter, Miss
hoge'lhF' Is Tue unmarried heiTeSs, Inc
UNI" o"uSn'eF Is MIS-. l.. II McNiel OF
oi 'he remaining daughters is also, we be-
' I g, " resident OF nullalo' VI tue hiih
Tba aroat e,,,S 49, - - NJ C 'i".aT" .on
sists in the main, we understand, Of Brit
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