Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-09-04
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SOME RICH WOMEN.
Widows and Maids Worth q Mn.
ion Dollars or More.
Most OF Thorn Live I'm New York-Somo
Are Found I'm Society and Some
Arc 60 Be Found In the Whiri
Of Wall Street

Arc to Be Found In the Whiri
OF Wan Street.
Mrs. Noses Taylor, the widow Of the
famous dry-goods merchant, says q New
York paper, comes generally first into tho
mind Of the New Yorker who bethinks him
OF the famously rich women Of Manhattan
Island. As widow she seems 70 acquire
the Pre-emineuce monR her wealthy sex
which widowhood gives to . beautiful
woman among her unmarried sisters. Mrs.
Taylor 10 carefully estimated to be worth
not less than ei5, ,O0, 600.
Hrs. Robert L. Stewart, the widow Of the
ouccessful sugar merchant whose refineries
were 30 long objects Of interest along the
North river, inherited from him e5O0,OOO
outright and . life interest In 600.
Mrs- Marshall o. Roberts, who Ii often
pointed out as the most desirable parti
among fashionable widows. has life inter-
estin 81 100000. This is much 10 wer, and it
1s believed to be much nearer the truth,
than most current estimates Of her pecuni-
ary charms.
''The Widow Hammersley" that was, now
her Grace the Duchess of Marlborough, has
life interest in $5.0OO,OO She has it right
here in this city, too. in custody Of New
York courts, 30, as long as she lives, she
NOooO y.
Augustus Schell, widow OF the famous Dem
ocrst and banker, has twelve solid millions
OF money while she lives. She can't will it
away, however. Mrs. Frederick Stevens
that was, now the Duchesse de Dino, Is a
New Yorker still to the tune Of ten real
golden millions of her own, and now one
may say. the Dukes, too.
Mrs. Robert !. Livingston, who Is El-
bridge Gerry's mother-in-law, is worth
100000 ''if she's worth q cent" That's
the way an old crony Of hers puts It. "But,
la bless you, don't mention my name" And
80 the old crony's identity shall remaia
secret. What she doesn't know about the
rich women OF New York is inaccessible,
too. there's Mrs. Frederick Gallatin,"
says she, s'whose million is in cold cash and
securities, most of it, It's finely fixed she
is. And Mrs. Brady Martin, who came
from up the Hudson, who brings over her
own brands Of champagne, and who enter
tains with the best OF the fine ladies in Scot
land and England, too, bad cess to them.
She's got two millions of her own besides all
her husbands money.
Mrs. Robert Winthrop has private fort
une more than adequate to the maintenance
Of even such a fine old family name as hers.
She has $10,0O0,0O0. Mrs. Percy Pyne has
$4,000, 900 of her own. Mrs. Fred Nelson,
Freddy Gebhart's sister, has a cool million
1t must always be remembered that cool
million seems the most desirable kind OF q
million. The same cool million represents
also the private fortune of Mrs. Matulin
Livingstone. Nobody will be surprised to
hear that Mrs. Ogden Mills has million
Of her own.
But o, ye young bachelors and middle
aged and old bachelors IN search of rich
wives, think what you have lost in the way
OF opportunities when you hear that the
two elderly Misses Rhinelander have S.
OO0, 900 between them and bid fair to leave
1t to collateral heirs with wonderfully fat
accumulationsl
Now, take Mrs. James P. Kernochen.
She has $1,5O0, 600 In money and real estate
at low estimate. All these estimates are
low indeed. By the same apportionment
Mrs. John c. Green has at least s.. 900. eco,
and Mrs. Mason Jones, so often called by
queer old people Lady Mary Mason JONES'"
ing the Hammersley will besides.
And SO gossip goes on.
Mrs. Josephine Aver, the widow Of the
doctor who made fortune in patent medi-
cines, Is said to have received from him
about 5000, 900. Mrs. Martin Bates was
left by her husband 81, 500, 900, which he
made in dry goods, and Mrs. James Brown,
who lives In fine house on Park avenue
and Thirty-seventh street, received from
her husbands estate about q, ,000, COO, which
he accumulated as . banker. Mrs. w. e
Dodge is worth a, ,O00, 900, much of the in-
come Of which she sends to the heather.
Mrs. Robert Goelet is worth g, 600 900, and
Mrs. John c. Green, the widow Of the
Princeton College patron, Ii reputed to be
worth o10, ,O00, 600 Mrs. John Ninturu is
A All B.
said 70 b. worth q, ,po0. COO, and heF father
widow Is worth several millions; Clarkson
Pctter'B widow. has an immense income
from his estate, shd Mrs. Edwin Stevens,
who owns ''Castle Point" ct Hoboken. Is
one OF the richest widows In America, and
counts her wealth by millions. Mrs Paran
Stevens husband made q, ,000, 600 in hotels
and left her the Victoria and share in the
Fifth Avenue.
But after this plethora of millions feminine,
who is the richest woman In New York, and
consequently, without much doubt, the
richest In the United States, and perhaps
the richest woman In the worldi She isn't
young and she isn't handsome, but she
made her money and keeps it. Where
does "Hetty" Green livel Look in direct
ories and you won't find out. Ask the
tSltStt4tAt91 ASouN PCtplo ouu fOH H1kQb, ~
they Thought propst to tells You. Wha
knows where 1.-THE richest woman In New
York; livesl
She Is about forty-seven years old and L.
worth at q conservative estimate about
twenty-five million dollars. She married
e. II. Green, of New York. Mr. Green was
worth t700, 900, and it is said Miss Hetty had
an ante-nuptal contract with him whereby
he agreed to pay all Of the household ex-
penses and to leave her property Of s2G0n.-
900 and moro in her own nance After her
wedding she kept up her activity md
through her husband got into Wall street
specnlatioH. She aIa the specializing her.
self and made while her husband lost She
could bay large blocks nt stock and would
bull or bear the markets as she thought
best. She made money right along and IL
now ''reputed" 70 be worth forty-odd mill.
inna- She is economical withal, and though
her income must be immense, icr 49,. 49,,
household expenses are not over 5000.
Grant Rs W06d=C6ttsp.
Grant used to chop cord wood In q ne
culisr way, says Judge Lanham, in the ST.
Louis Republic, cutting the tree ali round
instead of half down one side and then on
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