The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-03-18
LOCAL SEAMSTRESS
HEIR TO A MILLION?
Mrs. II. B. Howard Expects
Big Legacy
FROM GRANDMoTHER's ESTATE
Advised That She Is One OF Eight
Heirs Who win Receive $4,000. 900
OF Property Located In Dublin. Ire
land-Her Plans.

Aiicr - yran spent ~ drcssmaking. Mn,
Harriet H. Howard of 90 Main street, i.
! promised q legacy oi slOO1,gyO. II j. "a
come Ia her irpm the estate OF her par
tcnal grandmother. Margaret Savage, wh0
owned large real estate holdings on the
famous layhrdge street. IN Dublin, Ire.
| land. Late lat tall Mrs Howard received
| adyices from a iifm 0i law solicitors IN
Dublin that she was one OF eight
heirs who will inherit an estate of Sl9,.
0vD00 lett 10y her grandmother. She i'm.
mcdiatrly communicated with hcr three
brothers and three sisters in Nova Scotia
and learned that they had been advised OF
the inheritance that was TO fall 10 them.
Mrs Howard took up the matter with
the solicitors in Dublin and learned that
II was not dream and that she wa an
heir 10 sl.nVO.WO. She was Informed that
II would be- necessary Tor her TO establish
her claim aud identity aud during III. win.
ter has been furnishing the proofs rc.
luifed
Yesterday she went To Boston TO consul,
with attorneys concerning the matter and
She understands from adviccs received
from Dublin that she will receive her
share OF the estate OF her grandmother
some time in August. Mrs. Howard.
while not given 10 constructing air castles,
l. planning tu spend a year ~ Europe.
where she will devote herself 10 literary
work. While 1t has only recently become
known TO few intimate friends of Mrs.
Howard that she l. expecting 10 receive
tins legacy. she has been engaged IN fur
ni.hing proof, 10 the authorities in Dublin
for several months. She learned early in
the winter that her brothers aud sister.
IN Nova Scotia received information con |
ccrning the estate OF their grandmother a /
long time IN advance OF the time she was 1
that legacy awaited her. Had |
she received notice of the fact that she |
was heir 10 a million dollars al the same /
time AZ did her sisters and brothers. Mrs. |
Howard would have completed her proofs
Of claim before this time. One. of the
heirs to the estate great granddaughter,
will receive A.0O0OO0 Mrs. Howard de-
tlincs to give the names of her brothers
and sisters as she does not care to give pub.
city to the husband OF one of her sisters,
Is the man is a member Of the English
parliament
Margaret Savage, Mrs. IIoward's pater
ilexander McNutt of Truro. Nova Scotia.
.ionel McNutts son. Capt. William
,teafns McNutt. was Mr.. Howard's
ather Her mother was Miss Mary Me.
>utt, second cousin OF Captain McNutt.
Mr.. Iioward's father was captain in
he English army stationed in Nova
Gotta. One OF his ancestors was a
lrgnia planter who fought with Brad {
ock and later went as a colonization ;
gent to Nova Scotia and induced a large |
olony of New Hampshire people to settle !
! that country. Mrs. Howard was born
nd educated in Truro, \. :, and came !
0 Brattlcboro ~ years ago from North I
.dams. Mass. with her husband, George a
. Howard Mr., Howard is superintend. {
Mt Of the +. b. Barrows farm ON Ames .
ILL., Mrs Howard. who devotes much Of I
er time to literary work. has recently c
ritten a novelette, entitled The Schemer, a
nd her latest work is Pauline OF the II
oast. story OF life along the shores of il
le Atlantic She has recently received an r
Ter OF position on the staff of n
'orcester, Mass, paper, but has decided /,
1t to accept as she intends to enjoy what t,
Ie has never had vacation. when her p
Zip comes in. which she believes is due
arrive next summer Beside her liter
v work, Mrs. Howard amuses herself ;,
th doing sketches in charcoal and has
Gently executed several marine studies in s,
ack and white. r