The Cairo bulletin., 1907-01-30
HE|RESS. INSANE,
DYING FORGOTTEN
FORMER NEW YORK SOCIETY
LEADER is AWAITING DEATH
IN A cANiTARiuM.
BROTHER ONLY RELATIVE
And Will Acquire Large Fortune
Which Has Been Rapidly In.
ereasing Since She Was
Adjudeed insane.

! New York, Jan. 29.--F'rom Bos.on
word has been received thai Margaret
Winthrop Folsom is so Ill in a sapi
! tarium in Wayerly, Mass, that her
physiciars believe death cannot long
be DELAYED. Few persons In New
| York win recognize the name, and
| fewer will remember Miss Folsom
whose family half century ago was
one Of The most prominent in society
and politics in this state
Death win release her from mer
| tai malady which has KEEP here In
retreat for thirty-eight years. wiii
her fortune, which was large al rs
beg nning, has multiplied until her
income is more than $l50.0p0 year.
Brother Only Relative.
Although Mis-. Folsom's family was
once SO prominent, her only relative
and heir In her brother, George Wir-
throp Folsom. He collects an income
Of sl50000 year from the thirg
eight properties which she owns and
from the b~nds, stocks and mortgages
amounting 10 a quarter of million
dollars. included in her estate. For
his services az committee of her pas
son and estate he IN allowel s3jhol
a year by the supreme couf Hts
office is 81 Liberty street.
Miss Folsom is sixty-folr years oil
Her malady is marked by recur-ent
periods Of intensity which OF late
have been increasing In violence. al
| reports received from Boston show,
and II now threatens to end her iifs.
In the sanitarium she occupies a suite
Of four rooms. with dining room.
Two nurses arc in cons ant attend
ance, and everything that money can
/ buy is given to her to add t) ner
comfort or crafty her slightest wish.
But her wants are few. Last ye1r the
cost Of her maintenance was only
s4.532.
Adjudged insane in 1862
BY decision Of tho then cyisting
ourt Of common pleas, rendered after
an exhaustive inquisition. Miss F'l
som was adiudged insane In Scptem
ber, 1864. and Incompetent to care for
herself or administer her affairs. Her
sister, Helen Folsom. and George the
brother. were named as a committee
of her person and estate Miss Helen
Folsom resigned in 1871. on changing
her residence to England. and has
since died, leaving no heirs with any
claim on her sisters e.tate Since
hen The brother has been acting
alone. Charles May. a lawyer. Of 80
Nassau street. was afterwsrd sp
pointed q special guardian t0 watch
over Miss Folsom's legal interests.
when Miss Folsom was declared
insane she was twenty-five years old
Many physicians pronounced Der NAL
ady incurabie Her case presented
many interesting pathological lel-
lures and was the more sad because
Of It's hopelessness. A mental coDdi
tiou amounting at times almost 10
idocy, strange Authorizations lack OF
memory and inability 20 recognize
her most intimate friends and rela-
tives were among the marked symp-
toms.
While her father George Folsom.
was alive. Miss Folsom wa, cared foC
In the family home After mis- delth.
IN March 1863. II became nece@sary
TO send her TO ssnitsrium. The
mo her. who was a Miss Winthrop
had died several years previously.
George Folsom was a vel known
antiquary and died in Rome when
He was state senator from
1874 e. 1913 and acted as cbargr
d d'affaites at the court Of The Neither
lands from 1850 to 1854 Hc was a
close student of ethuology aud vroe
several works dealing with the carly
his ories Of Maine and Mexico.
Source Of Her Wealth.
Mr. Folsom inherited lsr-"
share uf the winthrop estate When
her husband died partition pr0c"ct
ings were begun by which IN 1872
Mis- Margaret Folsom came iuto so
session Of property valued then at
s7es.6e7.
Tho estate included personal prop
crty Woiih SsuO.0O0. The balsace Vas
IN real estate. nearly all in his city,
n the section bounded by Orchard
Houston. Rvington and Attorney
streets
Within these boundaries lie Gin
Ion Suffolk. Norfolk aud Ludlow
streets and there stsnd Today ihir =
i've pieces OF property which are re-
,orded a. belonging 20 Miss Folsom.
Much Of this property was uuim
proved when IL came into the hsads
2 her brother as committee. and he
las spent large part OF the income
very year in the Improvements
Three houses in West End avenue.