The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-18
MRS THOMPSON'S
ESTATE is NEAR
MILLION MARK
Most Of Her Property Is In
Bridgeport Realty
Holdings
Inventory Returned to Pro-
bate Court Today-Was
Bridgeport's Richest
Woman
Bulk of Estate Goes to Her
Daughter Some Chart
able Bequests and Annu-
ity for Husband.

able Bequests and Annu-
ity for Husband.
Falling somewhat less than the
various estimates of her fortune CIV
en- at the time of her death, the in
ventory of the estate Of Caroline c.
Thompson, wife of David w. Thomp-
son and daughter of P. T. Barnum
the great Snowman, was filed with
Probate Judge Edward F. Hallen to-
day. The estate inventories at $804,-
714.47, of which S463,050 is real es-
tate, and $342,664.47 personal prop
erty.
Her real estate holdings all OF
which are located in this city with
the exception of a homs msstead in New
York reaches almost the half million
figure. She was the owner of the
Barnum- thompson building in State
and Court streets which inventories
at $125,000, of the land and factory
of the Conn. Web & Buckle Co. in
Knowlton street valued at $4,000, of
a third interest in the Sherwood tract,
known now as the circus grounds, her
share being valued at $22,200, and of
the Park City rink and lot valued at
$4,000.
In all Mrs Thompson was the own
er of more than half a hundred pieces
of real estate holdings located in all
parts of the city They include, her
homestead in Waldemere avenue,
$4,000; vacant lot at Park Place,
saeeoo Pars Pase Pa Pace and Renne axsmaG
Rennell street, $4,000; 1o1-103 and
1872 Cottage street. $500; 102-10s,
114-1116 and 1s2-1s4 HAnover street.
street $4,000; 1ss5-2oos Fairfield
avenue, $4,000; Al Denver avenue,
$1,000; 357 Benham avenue, $4,000;
470-472 and 417-419 Wood avenue,
$1O,500; Elmwood Place, $4,000;
773-775 Norman street, $4,000; 121-
1913 and 1915 Wood avenue, $780,;
"a Fremont street. $4,000; rs Knowl-
Boiler Works, $4,000; 1858 William
street, $4,000; 217-219 and 353-355
Harral avenue, $500; 327-329 and
331-335 Ogden street, $4,000; land at
Railroad avenue and Norman street,
$500; land in Broad street $4,000;
at Walnut and Atlantic streets (2)
$500; at State and Iranistan avenue,
s10.40O; State and Norman streets,
$4,000; State and Clinton avenue. $5,-
500; State and Fairfield avenue, $14,-
900; Hancock and Fairfield avenues
$4,000; Hancock avenue, $1,000; Silli-
IIldn avenue anu ASH street., SZ,0UU,
Ash street and Mountain Grove street.
s4.250; interest in tract at Iranistan
avenue, Atlantic street extension and
Seaside park, $4,000.
The deceased held much stock in
well paying corporations, in all her
stocks amounting to s130,667. In well
invested bonds she was interested to
the amount of sSS,8S2.29 Most of
these bonds were in street railway
companies and in gas and electric
light corporations. In the Connecti-
cut Railway & Lighting Co. she held
five bonds valued at $5,1S6.25. In
loans secured by mortgages she held
$43.250. the biggest loan being $500
to the Harvey Hubbell Corp
Her stock holdings follow: 90 shares
U. S. Steel, $10,S00; SO shares Col
onial Bank of New York, $4,000; 2
shares Bridgeport and Port jefferson
Steamboat Co. $4,77o; ia shares
Hydraulic Co, s24,510; SO
shares America Loco. Co., $1,000; so
shares Adams Express Co., s19,120;
114 shares Delaware and Hudson Co.,
s19,60S; 70 shares Manhattan Rail-
way Co, $500; 113 shares N. Y, N.
Co., $500.
The furniture in the home at Sea-
side Park and the horses and car
riages inventory at $1,S0O; there is
cash in the Peauennock National
bank to the amount of $12,72257,
while the interest remaining in the
trust fund under the will of P. L.
Barnum is 65,342.61, bringing the
total estate up to $804,71447, and
making Mrs. Thompson at the time
of her death, the richest woman in
The bulk of Mrs. Thompson's vast
estates is left by will to her only
daughter, Frances B. Leigh, wife of
William B. Leigh, who resides in Park
Place. In her will, Mrs. Thompson
left $4,000 to her grand daughter,
Nancy B. Leigh, but the young girl
died only short while before her
grandmother.
Besides leaving the bulk Of her eS-
tates to her daughter, Mrs. Thompson
provided $4,000 annually for her hus-
band, and also bequeathed to him her
New York residence
Through her bequests, a number Of
local charitable institutions profit.
The bequests include: $1,000 to the
Mountain Grove Cemetery Association;
81, 900 to the Bridgeport Boys Club;
81, 900 to the Sterling Widows Home;
3, 900 to the Burroughs Widows Home;
81, 600 to the Bridgeport Hospital; ST.
600 to the Ladies Charitable Society;
81 900 to the Bridgeport Protestant Or
phan Asylum.
There is a bequest of $1,000 to the
Hospital for the establish
ment of a free bed for negroes. Pre-
viously Mrs. Thompson had left S5,-
BOO in trust with her daughter for the
Of home for poor ne
groes and also bequeathed the land at
Broad street and Park Place A CO.
1icil later revoked these two bequests
To the Dorcas and Employment So
ciety of the Church of the Heavenly
Rest of New York, of which society
she was for many years its president,
she left $1,000, and to the endowment
fund of the church, the same.
Mrs Thompson remembered the
OF her many servants by
leaving bequests of 800 to each.
The executors of the will were her
husband, David w. Thompson, and her
son-in-law, Walter B. Leigh The ap-
Draisers of the estate were E. T.
and William H Griffith.
Assistant Clerk Fred W. Tracy of
he superior court has resumed his