The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-02-25
ANITA BLAINe's MILLION.
Papers Putting It Out of Her Control Cam
celied-signed :the Day Before She
Married Emmons Blaine.

Judgment has been entered in the su-
preme court of New York upon the report
of David B. Ogden as referee. nnding
that three:papers executed by Anita Nc
Cormick, on Sept. rs. 1889, the day before
hsr marriage to Emmons Blaine, son of
the'late James G. Blaine, and male IL
view of her marriage, are void and should
be cancelled. 1t is found that she exc
cuted the papers under a misapprehen-
sion.
Shells daugh ter Of Cyrus Hall Nc
Gormick, of Chicago, who made large
fortune ia the manufacture of agricul-
tural machines. He:diedfin 1884. ssleaving
the present plaintiff, Anita, and four
other children, and n widow, Mrs. Nettie
Fowler Mccormick. The share Of Anita
under the will of her father amounted to
about million dollars, but it WAS pro-
vided thatsthesbulksof.it was tobe held. in
trust until she reached her twenty fifth
year.
She was but 20 years old when she be-
came engaged to marry young Blaine in
June, 1889. She was resi- ding in Balti-
more during her early acquaintance with
Blaine, and when they became engaged at
that time in Baltimore the tie of the
marriagesswas not fixed. She was on the
most affectionate terms with,her brother,
Cyrus Hall Mccormick, DR., who was at
the time of the engagement the presidents
of the harvesting machine company, and
who was looked to as adviser of the
family. Mr.. Mccormick was in Europe
at the time of the engagement, and Anita
wrote to him, telling MIN about the pro-
posed marriage. He wrote to their mother
suggesting that some arrangement be
made to secure her large interest in the
estate of her father, which she would get
at % years of age, before her marriage to
Blaine. On receiving letter from her
brother about the matter she wrote adj
vislpg him to come to sthis country and
see what should be done to remove any
apprehen sion about the control of the es
tate being protected for her in the future.
Mccormick arrived in September, 1889.
He oounselled his Sister to make some
disposition of her interests, and 1T was
arranged to put them beyond the chance
Of interferenos and SO that no change In
the management OF the harvesting
A conference was held that month at
Richfield Springs, whore Anita McCor-
mick and her mother were stopping. The
plaintiffs uncle and young Blaine were
summoned there. At this time the heirs
of the late Cyrus Hall Mccormick held
three-fourths of the capital stock of the
company. and the other fourth was held
by Leander Mccormick, a brother of the
late Cyrus. Leander and his brother Cy-
rus had differences in their lives, and the
interests of the family Of Cyrus and Of
death of;Cyrus. IL was stated that the
Mccormick heirs were we'll disposed
toward young Blaine and approved of the
o opposed marriage, but they were chiefly
anxious not to have an outsider get into
the affairs of the company which We're
then controlled by the eirs
The plaintiffs uncle and her brother
advised her TO put all her property in the
hands of trusteae. Her mother declined
to advise her, but said that she should
be guided by what her brother and uncle
deemed for the best. Young Blaine was