The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-11
WIDOW INHER|TS
THE REID ESTATE
Will of Late Ambassador Is
Made Public
IS SOLE -AEcUI TX
Becomes Owner of New York !. une.
No Direct Provision ME for
Children But Indicates re
They Be Proyidedo )

New York, January he entire
estate of the late Whitelaw Reid, am
bassador to Great Britain, is left un
conditionally to his widow, Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Mills Reid. with the exception
of specific hequests totalling $4,000
under the terms of the will made public
this afternoon. To ogden Mills Reid
and Jean Templeton Reid, now Mrs
John Hubert Ward, his son and daugh-
ter. there is left outright not penny,
although the late ambassador indi-
Gated Enthusiastically his wish that they
should be well provided for by their
mother.
The value of the estate has been
variously estimated at from $4,000, 900
to s20, 900 000 No hint of what the
appraisal will show is given in the will
however The widow is made sole ex-
ecutrix. and special request is made
that she may serve without giving
bond. The will was executed Novem-
Der. 3, 1894
Mrs Reid thus becomes the owner OF
almost the entire issue of stock of the
Tribune association, publishers of the
New York Tribune, whose affairs her
son, ogden Reid, has been directing
for a year. A statement issued by
Henry w. Sackett, counsel for the es-
tate, asserts that ogden Reid will con-
tinue as the head of the association.
Entire Estate in Widows Hands
In Mrs. Reid's hands is placed the
management of the entire estate with
out hindrance or suggestion further
than the late ambassadors expressed
wish that his son, Ogden. should he
display capacity and aptitude for the
work. should ultima tely" succeed to
the control of the Tribune; and that
certain parcels Of real estate should
ultimately" pass to his son and daugh-
ter.
ogden Mills Reid, whose ultimate
control of the Tribune is thus de-
scribed as being dependent upon the
aptitude he should show for the work
and his mothers wishes. was boy in
knickerbockers when the will was
written. He is now somewhat under
so.
The late ambassador employed no
lawyer to draft his will, but sat down
in the library of his New York home
and penned it himself on three sheets
of paper. The document, in part, says:
1T is my desire that the homestead
and my adjoining land in Ohio shall
ultimately pass to my son, ogden Mills
Reid, and that my daughter. Jean Tenn
pleton Reid shall ultimately have my
property on the upper st. Regis lake
in the Adirondacks.
SHOULD my son, Ogden Mills Reid
display capacity and aptitude for the
work, it is my desire that he should
ultimately succeed TO my control of
the Tribune but this and the dispo-
sition of the property must be left to
his mother | desire that my executrix
shall so arrange the division of my
estate that in the end ogden and Jean
may have shared exactly alike.
All my property of whatever sort
or description / leave (subject to the
payment of specific bequests) to my be-
loved wife, Elizabeth Mills Reid"
Among specific bequests are $50. 900
each to a neice Mrs. Ella Spencer Reid
Harrison, now living in Ohio, and the
Tribune Fresh Air Fund association,
$4,000 TO Robert Everett Smith, a
nephew, and individual bequests of
from 800 to $1,000 to employees.
The viii was filed today with the
surrogate a White Plains, n. Y.
Mr.. Reid's daughter. Jean Temple
ton, married John Hubert Ward of
England since the will was written.