Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-10
THE LAST WILL
Of the Late Samuel Laughlin Left for Probate
Yesterday.

The will of the late Samuel Llughlin
was yesterday left at County Clerk Hooks
office for probate, and was duly recorded.
The document was inscribed on manila
legal cap paper and was written in the
large back-hand writing so familiar to the
business acquaintance of the deceased
gentleman. The writing is almost "a
plain rs large print, and is written with an
indelible pencil. The entire estate amounts
to about $3.50, O00 and is divided az fol
lows:
To his wife Sydney Laughlin, the home
residence and all the household and
kitchen furniture, silver plate, Furnishings
and books in said residence, absolutely,
which, for her convenience, is placed at
the nominal value of $1,000;
also 80 shares of Laughlin Nail Com.
pany stock, $25, 600; 200 shares
Junction Iron Company stock, $40, 600;
% shares BenwOod Iron Company, 81, 800;
three notes of Junction Company, eln,hnh'
note of Laughlin Nail Company, $1,000;
bond First Presbyterian Church, $l,50O;
total $67, 900.
To Geo. A. Laughlin, his son, 81, 200 he
owes tcstatOr; 10 shares, Exchange Rank,
81, 900; POO shares Junction Iron Company,
$50, 900; 10 shares Laughlin Drug Com
pany, stock, 81, 900; % shares BenwOOd
Iron Company, -, 800; ST shares Laugh
lin Nail Company, 81, 400; Onc share
Laughlin Junction Steel Company, 500
% shares Nail City Lantern Company,
81. 900; also one set Picturesque Europe,
being part of his library.
To VIM. II. Laughlin, his son, 10 shares
Exchange Bank, $1,000; $50 shares June
ton Iron Company, $l5, 900; y shares
Laughlin Drug Company, - ,200; Ia
shares Laughlin Nail Company, $lT,3 300;
20 shares Nail City Lantern Company, 3d.
600; p shares BcnwOod Iron Company,
81, 800; also II set of Picturesque America.
70 Samuel OFT Laughlin, his son, IL
shares Exchange Bank, 81, 900; rs shares
Laughlin Drug Company, Sll, 800; l93
shares LIughlin Nail Company, $500
: shares Nail City Lantern Company, 800;
80 shares Junction Iron Company, s., 900.
% shares BenwoOd Iron Company, 81, 500:
One-fourth individual interest in proprie,
tary right in copyright of DIR. A. S. Todd's
pills. For good reasons the teStatOr declined
to make any estimate OF the value of such
interest; one set Schiller's works; also gold
watch carried by teStatOr for many years.
To John Laughlin, son of William
Laughlin, his brother, 80 shares Laughlin
Drug Company, $1,000; One-fourth inter,
est in copyright in DIR. A. s.. TOdd's pills.
To Lucy, wife of his son George A.
Laughlin, two diamond studs to be set in
ear or finger rings. He also appoints his
wife, Sydney Langhlin, guardian for his
minor sons, William and Samuel, requir-
ing no security for the trust. Sydney
Laughlin, his wife, Geo. A. Laughlin, his
son, and NJ. l.. OFT, his brOther-ln-law
are appointed executors and administra-
tors of the will, which they are requested
to see executed, and no bond or security
shall be required Of them for the
performance of their duty; MOI
is the testator willing that
they should make any charges for
services they perform, and should either
Of these be unable or unwilling to act, it
shall be the privilege of the testatOr's wife
to select a substitute under the same con
ditiOn and terms.
After the foregoing, the testator states
that he has divided the stock OF the enter
prises in which he has been engaged,
among his sons, so that they may have a
mutual interest in each others welfare
and prosperity, and that their mutual love
may continue in the future as it has been
in the past.
The will was signed by Samuel Laugh
lin, with no witnesses, ard the closing
paragraph states that it was written BY
him just after his serious, illness some
months previous to his death.