Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-15
TIE 0'KEEFFE HEIR porr.
4 small Tradesnan Pam 49,.
O00, 600.
Cork Constitutiou

OO0, 900.
Cork Constitutiou.
A few months ago 1 informed ~,
the wonderful luck Of the T;wyMf
Buckleys in being discovered =. .hnefck
heirs Of about 1850 600 in An.. mug uoe
left to them by poor boy. who )
inal, left this city some forty YEA. 'an'
In Clare q poor shoemaker WA =. o.
discovered as the heir to about fio s any slso
but these chance hits of fortune SS,;
their Intellectual fires" before Tho i. se
case of "good luck" Yesterd.s.a M
D. P. Mccarthy, a native Of Corr .. NM
tect, OF harrington street, received SD''
letter signed &c. A. Stanley, New Sou.,'s
Lincoln's Inn, informing him as foi Ie'
" l Am directed to inform YOU tho. W.
first installment of the O'Keeffe is.s se
has come to hand in your favos ~
100000. The whole or the ora.. .ot
portion of the Is, O0O, 600 left by f ths j.
ceased will come to you, excent ~.
portion allotted to your brothers aho us
which the crown will decide n.
Mccarthy received the intimation Will; WI.
great equanimity and quiet thsntfl'
ness that his first cousin Charles Rohss
O'Keeffe, late of Allahabad, India wha
died bachelor, had left him sncS "O
splendid fortune, which made him
millionaire five times repeated. Ta
deceased parents of Mr.. OKeefFa ~
sided in Cork, and carried on resna0,
able business there as general ms,
chants. His father and mother had W.
casion to visit London, and thor
contrary to all expectation, his moths,
was suddenly confined in hotel and
gave birth to the founder of the coosssi
fortune. Both Mr.. O'Keeffe's parents aren't,
died before he reached his majority H.
had one brother and one sister, but both
are dead. The brother died in Ausrs.
liza, to which he emigrated MANY yean
ego, and his sister died in Cork,
The chief heir in Limerick was often
invited by the five-millionaire to 90 ont
to India, but he had to decline the
tempting offer in consequence of nat.
urally delicate constitution, unified 10
stand the torrid zone. He had also IL
decline a similar offer from the deceas.
eds brothers to 90 out to Australia, to
both of whom he stood in the relation.
ship of first cousin, the mothers Of the
heir and the deceased being sisters
After time spent in Cork with his
father, and while yet only about Is yesn
of age, Mr.. OKeeffe made his way to
India, where he enlisted as private
soldier. Here, in this new sphere Of
life, his old habits never forsOok him,
He studied men. manners, but, above
all, business. By assiduity and rood
conduct, he at last received commits.
sion, but he did not retain it long, he
lieving that commerce was his real
forte. Service in the east during the
year 1912 naturally suggested to hs
mind that he could make mOneyg
engaging in the opium traffic and oihs
great branches of trade carried Ma
the east, and so he went into the OPIUM
trace. some said as an agent ofheES
India company, others on his own &c.
count. Be this as it may, byckse at
tention to business and goodmckhe
soon acquired colossal fortune, which
will astOnish many a modern Crasus-
five millions of money in ready cash,
and an income of E15O,OOO from landed
and other property! Mr.. O'Keefe died,
unmarried, in February 1876, when
Messrs. Darlington 4 Whigley, Of Cal
cutta, advertised for heirs, Of which, aF
parently, there was no lack, no fewer
than one hundred and seventv.6ve ap
plicants putting in claims rs the nextoi
kin of the deceased. but they were oil
put aside in favor of Mr.. McCarthy,oi
Limerick, who has four brothers, each
of whom will come in for twenty.hth
part of the money and estate, but MI
Mccarthy will be the recipient Of the
great bulk of the fortune.
The first intimation Mr.. Mccarthy
had of deceased's death was through
Mr.. Maurice Lenihan, ]. p, OF the
Limerick Reporter, handing him apa;,
per in which the heirs were advertised
for. Mr.. Mccarthy at once placed his
case as heir in the hands of MI. Isaac
Butt, member for the city, who, having
interested himself on Mr.. McCarthy;s
account, has had good deal to DO win
the recognition of the latter's claims as
the real heir to this immense properly
in conjunction with his brothers, MI.
Mccarthy being the eldest. The hell
is very industrious and energetlcc. man:
and has just completed the bulldlngo'
a terrace of houses on his own account
which he named Darlington terrace
when the letter. son Her Majesty ser
vice" proclaimed to him his unprs
cedented good fortune. His father
an independent farmer residing al Az ~
byfeale, where his mother died, ana a.
the family are in comfortable or ever
independent circumstances. Inc nen
served his time in Cork, where ne wa
born, with the building firm OF Mess H.
Dickson e. Taylor. At an early age ~
started business for himself In Newcss"s
Mast oOr offor Sovor01 wears OF CieS'