The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-10
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MRS. KINNEY'S FORTUNE.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF a
STRANGE CASE.
The Estate Which Comes to Her is
Valued at Four Hundred Thous-
and DO1Iars-Much of the Proper
ty Situated in Southern Kansas.

A short time ago The Herald published
the story regarding the death of Joseph
Bond, in Kansas, and the inheritance Of
a fortune by his daughter, Mrs. c. S.
Kinney of this city, wife of a we'll known
attorney. That was the first information
of the matter given here, and since then
additional details have been made public
and are contained in the following tele-
gram to the Chicago Times-Herald, pub
lished last Friday:
INDEPENDENCE, Kan, Dec. 5-One o.;
those curious romances in real life, which
prove that truth is stranger than fiction,
has just been unfolded in this neighbour
hood. Mrs. Classon S. Kinney. of Salt
Lake City, has. by a strange turn of for
tune, both raised from a position of mod
est independence to that of a wealthy wo-
man, and the circumstances that led up to
this result are most extraordinary. BY
the death of her father, whom she knew
only by report and whose features she
had only seen in a photograph, she came
into possession OF an estate valued at S4C0,-
600, most of which consists of valuable
lands in this part of southern Kansas.
The story was revealed on his death bed
by Joseph Bond, of Humboldt, this state
who was the father of Mrs. Kinney, who
had deserted his family in 1868, and had
been given up as dead long years before
the grim messenger summoned him from
his new home under the fictitious name
In 1912 Joseph A. Brown married Mary
], Daniels in New York. He had gradu-
ated in medicine from one of the leading
medical schools of the metropolis, but,
uncongenial to his tastes, subsequently
took a course in law in the University of
Pennsylvania, and was engaged in prac-
tice at the time of his marriage to Miss
Daniels. Three daughters were born to
the couple, and in 1863 the family was
Living in Rochester, n. Y, where Mr.
Brown enjoyed a lucrative practice, from
the proceeds of which he was rapidly
growing rich.
One morning Mr.. Brown left his home
in Rochester to visit New York on pro-
fessional business. He parted with his
family with the usual manifestations OF
turn. Diligent and long continued search
elected nothing concerning his wherea-
bouts. Finally Mrs. Brown began to real
iZe that she must become breadwinner
for her then fatherless daughters. She
had some resources of her own, which,
supplemented by her husbands estate,
afforded sufficient means for a woman
of correct business perceptions to MAIN
tain a family, and set about to make the
best of a bad situation.
After the close of the war; Mrs. Brown
moved to Memphis, Tenn, where she
hoped to find opportunities to mend her
fortune. But instead she there met the
greatest sorrow of her life, for in the yell
low fever epidemic of 1878 her two eldest
daughters fell victims to the plague. Inc
youngest daughter, Antoinette, now Mrs.
kinney, was IL years of age. AT the time
of her fathers disappearance she was a
babe a year and a half old.
Burdened with her bereavement, Mrs.
Browns thought turned toward the north.
Antoinette had reached the age When
her education became a matter of concern,
and she was sent to the University CT
Michigan from which, in due time sac
graduated. 1t was there that she met her
husband, then an undergraduate in the
arts department.. After her marriage her
mother lived with them until her death
in 1891 During all this time nothing was
heard from the missing husband by either
the mother or daughter.
Some years after Brown disappeared
from Rochester TALL dignlfle1 man OF
of the largest and most prosperous towns
in Kansas. He had plenty OF money and
soon demonstrated to the 1nnabltants pnat
he also had good ideas of business. Jo-
seuh Bond was the name borne by the
newcomer, and during the prosperous per-
iod that followed his advent in Humboldt
he was bold in the extreme IN business
ventures and correspondingiy successfui,
ton of the state Everything he touched
turned to gold. He was quick to grasp
business opportunity and ready to dispose
of a property that gave no promise or 1ur-
Their increase to some one OF the nandS
always open to receive 1t.
The citizens of Humboldt tell many stO-
ries of his marvellous business instinct,
by which he added farm to farm until he
became possessed of an aggregate of 100.-
900 acres of the finest land in the west.
He was called major by the people on
account of his military bearing. During
the interval between his disappearance
in Rochester as Lawyer Brown and his
temperance in Humboldt as Joseph
Bond, he served a term in the California
legislature. There is a period of about
three years which is still a sealed book.
though many circumstances tend to the