Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-22
HARTMAN LEFT ALL TO WIDOW
Fortune Probably Makes Her the
Richest Woman i'm the World.

New York, Sept. ia hundred
brief words, weighted each with ap-
proXimately $1,00O,000, and con-
tainiug in their entirety the last
testament of T.. II. Hartman, make
his widow, Mary Averell Hartman,
one Of the wealthiest women in the
world. 1t is perhaps the briefest
will on record Cor the disposal Of an
estate Of such magnitude. All his
property is left to Mrs. Hartman.
Wall street estimates that Mrs.
Hartman will inherit in realty and
personal property between $7j.OO0.-
900 and 500. 100000. Mr.. Harri-
mans private fortune is supposed to
have been greater than this by many
millions, but there is reason to be-
lievc that his unmarried daughters,
Mary and Carol, his married daugh-
ter, Mrs. Robert l.. Gerry, and his
two sons, VIM. hverell and Roland,
boy OF fourteen, together with his
surviving sister, Mrs. Simons and
other relatives, have ali been sub
Etantially provided for in gifts out
of hand and trust funds set aside by
Mr.. Hartman during his life time.
The will is dated June s, 1903,
and IS witnessed by ChaS. A. Pea
body, president of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company, who drew it,
and G. G. TcgcthOn. Mr.. Peabody
was Mr.. Hartman close personal
friend, and was frequently a caller at
Arden house during his last illness.
He relinquiShed law practice COM
monty estimated as worth 100000
a year to assume at a smaller salary
the executive direction of a company
in which Mr. Hartman was heavily
interested. Mr.. Tegcthoff was Mr..
Hartman s personal secretary.
Mrs. Hartman was Miss Mary
Avcrcll, daughter of w. J. Avcrcli, Il
wealthy banker Of Rochester,, y. Y,
who made his money in the Rome,
WatertOwn and Ogdcnburg Railway
Company. She brought her husband
financial aid in niS early struggles
in the market, when aid was most
valuable to him. He never needed il
again, for his administrative ability
soon won him the support of Kuhn,
Loeb & Co., the National City Bank
and the powerful Standard Oil
clique. Their thirty-siX years of
married life has always been said to
be ideally happy.
On Mrs. Harriman's shoulders will
HOW rest the improvement or the 49,
900 acres Of woodland, pasture land
and fertile black bottoms in the
RamapO Valley and on the steep
sides of Tower Hill the completion
OF the great house on which its mas
ter has already lavishcd $2,500.OO
without living to see it finished. and
those plans OF public benefaction-
parks and forest reservations
which it is known that Mr.. Hartman
cherished, though he makes no men
tion Of them in his will.
If the estate measures up to eX-
poctations, Mrs. Hartman, according
10 common estimation here is now
the wealthiest woman in the world.
Mrs. Hetty Green's holdings have
been estimated at $4,000, 900, and
those of Mrs. Fred Courtland Pen
field, who was Annie Weightman, of
Philadelphia, at $50, 100000, and
those OF Mrs. Russell Sage at like
amount.
The will was filed to-day with the
surrogate Of Orange county, New
York, at Goshen. 1t was pointed out
at Goshen to-day that by making no
bequests to children or relatives, Mr..
Hartman avoided the large share of
the Inheritance tax, which. under the
laws of the State Of New York would
otherwise be imposed. Mrs. Harri-
mans dover rights are subject to no
tax whatever. and the remaining
two-thirds of the estate to tax of
only one per cent.