The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-20
. YEARS Of GlRca.
s.en OeTTLEMAS CLEARS CP
mrsnnY OF HIS DReTmEA.
= Mifwanlee DDeweS w.
.sanpeased Tweasy Years Ago
ApeA % Avkansas-Chaa9e Dfs
- aaa Concealed Hts 11enety.

uwAYKEE- June is-The mystery Of
= 1sr.ocearasce 81 Jacas GcttienaAn and
- hss been cleared after = search Of
- veass. Adam Cetsieman. presa-
- = fhe GeftirrnaE brewing Company
6s.vred from Huntington. Ark, where he
1870 the family q bis brother For
- xessx jacob Eeffienan iiYed under
s ID. $40. hesa good positions. and reared
8 esr1air In ignorance Of its real name
4 ~ fhe time MS Milwaukea relatives
- Advertising for him. using every
- 10 locate him Jacob knew they
- scarchsng for him. out In obedience
81 vow be would never reveal himself
II sayone. Finally, when he came to die.
Il. - his eniR1ren their real name. that
- relatives are wealthy. aDa they are
- 10 the estate Of Adam GetfiafSan-
- Vowed Sot 20 Retasn.
4weufy years ago Jacob G<:sIeOAn. who.
- fnsm6r In Iowa. had q usisundera1And-
r. I'M a0me - the otfsr meanbeFs OF the
f3. - result u which he registered
= - fhaf he would never again zee or
- q any OF them He war q man o.
- mkane and was aiso the prospective
e considerable estate
~ np33 his farm and left Iowa, refusing
= - any one where he VAS goinG. The
&rs5em1a family waited for soGne months
Siaain9 he would cool Oh and would write
- 1k1GL When n year elapDed bis father
Snn 4 systematic search for him. Ad-
- nooss Offering q large reward for
esfs1Il1fioa In regard to him were placed
e m The papers OF the Southwest. and
'ntftf unny letters were received from peo-
supporting TO be the lost heir. no ctew
- ever Obtained.
YS@ Adam Getilsrnan, ~. died his Iast
Hq6s1t TO his son, the brewer. Was that he
konN continue 10 search and he has done
- fn5{hfuily, expendiuG many thousandn Of
fnliau TO obtain ,idings OF his brother.
o1ves Deafhbea lnstracstsns.
Aur1a = there Did ~ HunsinGton. Ark.
! ~ Who was known ~ Jacob iieA On
- Aeofssbed he called his children around
IN sd told them that after he vas dad
ney sAeaid write To Adam Gettleman cf
1lixaskee. Informing him that his brother
ID weeks ago Mr.. Gessieman received
! MIR from Huntington signed BY Law
49, ftsa, telling Of the death Of his
nf1r and OF ths strange request made
% ~ deafhhed Mr.. Gettlemen went NJ
49, y Huntington and he found Mr.. IIea
= = .' . q s ~ nss:snsn Dre e man
p years n age. and the story he told
~ Hnc,e II remarkable one and entirely
siiW he naystery.
otesv TelA ~ 1zls aen.
H said when / was little boy !
fnembsr an old man by the name OF
osgsteGan who used 10 come and visit
~ wandered all over the West and
fsushwess for five years. finally. settling
q Huniihgtou, where fathar became the
osuefal Superintendent 81 the MiHs0asf
Arkansas Mining Merchandisinx
CoQ1Any
Tor many years we saw But little OF
lafhg. He was travelling over the couu-
~ lDokinx after the interests 81 the
eoapshy. ! Mother died fourfeen years
80. Seven years ago father was Ia
3ured In one Of the mines. and he was
tnae!e 10 do much work after that All
lAnes years ! could remainder the name
- Gentleman. but ] could not AZ TO whom
4 belonged. but the name Of !iea aeemed
eerAn9e 10 me.
Father never said anything about tas
relatives until he came 20 die when he re-
essaied ~ to write 10 Adam Geftiemzn. Of