Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-12-16
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Misery RecEuse, Half A Million Dol
lars Found IN Trunk.

a Misery RecEuse, Half A Million Dol
lars Found IN a Trunk.
The following particulars Of the death
| of the singular Jersey City miser, will be
read with interest we find the account
in the New York Times:
On Wednesday evening last. LYMAN
Allyn, an aged boarder at Taylor's Hotel
IN Jersey City, was found dead sitting n
his chair in his room. His death was
duly reported on the following morning
but there were circumstances dcyeloneedi
yesterday, which surround his life and
death with peculiar interest. His brother !.
Thomas Allyn, ofGroton, Conn. in com
pany with sister, the only relatives of
the deceased, arrived yesterday, and with
the permission of Coroner Burns. tooL
charge of the corpse. They examined
also the two dilapidated trunks that s.ood
IN inc {: corner Of their brothers bedroom
and IN one Of them were found stocks and
coo % f. Se'S'
His life during the last five years had
been most remarkable. He was man Of
over seventy, and so infrm that he con.
sumed half an hour or more in coming.
down from his room to the dining room
Yet he lived upon the highest floor to save
| money, and never was known when unon
the street to use horse car, saving that
they had the effect of making people law
| and he would not patronize them. IL
came from his room to his meals but once
day, eating the very smallest onant;t,,
1.-THE cheapest food. He sought no socie-
ty' and would permit no person to enter
his room but the chambermaid. and She
but once week. While she ARRANGED
his room he invariably watched her close.
ly.
10 an observer the room contained Co.,.
little that was worth watching Two ~
trunks, scanty wardrobe. made m IF
cheap ready made coats, two hats ono
white, the other black, and both tb;rIo
years Old, patched shoes and boots. cony
OF Webster's Dictionary, a Bible ao odfy
medical book, were all that the room I ~.
tanned, and its situation and interior d Ion
lateness made it dreary abode Tba aIi
man had lived here alone for noorl1, ~ o.a
years, declining all the while to ses a NV
visitors, for, he said, they came onIv ha
cause they thought he had money tHot
they were mistaken, for he was yerv noor
and had great difficulty in paying bis board board
bills. 40 00"i0
His brother and sister, who took otonro
of his effects, gave our renortor 'nI 20
sketch OF his life. He was born in Groton
Conn, in 1897, and was sent at an earI,
age BY his father to work in a o,ooan9,
store IN New London. Finding that b;s
employer was dishonest, and that bo LIS us
false weights and measures, the how " 90.
away and returned to his home ~ .a ,"n
procured situation in another store ''o"
NAMED there for number Of wears 80 ~
IN loIi {. h ne came to New York and en-,
ant. Becoming interested in stock specu-
latlons, under the advisement and in nar-
tnership with Jacob Little, Mr.. Aglvn
amassed large fortune which subscouent
speculations did much to reduce.
He was bachelor, and had for tb;rtv
or forty years been in some degree averse
to all society, but his eccentricities were
not so marked as they were during the six
or seven years preceding his death, Dur-
ing his stay at Taylor's Hotel he was oc-
cupied entirely in looking after the valne
OF and the interest upon his bonds and
stocks, keeping his business, however. in
SO great secrecy that not even the pronri-
etor OF the hotel had the faintest intima-
tion that his guest was wealthy capitalist
His bills were paid with the greatest
promptltude, but beyond this fact no per-
son in the hotel had grounds for supnos-
ing that the old man had dollar. His
occupation, meanwhile, was entirely nm
known, aud many speculations were in
dulged 10 by his fellow boarders toucbino
tine work which kept The recluse so much
confined to his garret.
Wednesday afternoon the bill collector
took MIR. Allyu's bill to his room knoek.
| ed, received no answer, and could Gain no
admittance. He threw the bill into the
room over the door, and went avav. The
day wore. away and it was remarked thas
the old gentleman was not so prompt as
formerly IN responding to the presenta-
ton Of his bill. Mr. Fisk, the proprie-
tor, went to his room, and receiving no
answer to his calls, the door was forced
open, and the aged occupant was found
lifeless in his chair.
The examination of the trunk and con-
tents disclosed the fact that the old man
owned stock in many of the best paving
concerns in the country He owned stock
in all the principal railroads in New Jer-
sey, the Erie railroad, Atlantic and Great
Western, the Morris Canal and BANKING,
Company, and the New York estate on
Long Island and in the city of BROOKLYN.
and pile of State and country bonds,
were found. With these :here'was will.
dated fifteen years ago. bequeathing all
bis property to his brother and sister.
\ STRAY REMINTscENoE.-I once heard
DR.. Lovick in the midst of one of his
unparalleled appeals on the subject of