The Washington herald., 1914-11-29

mills IN Delaware have made mfIlion-a-
year men Of at least five members Of the
A. Dupont and his brother. william, are
the heads of this family and the wealth
Test. The combined fortunes Of the Du-
pont family are way up in the hundreds
Of millions.
In Chicago, the fortune founded By
Cyrus Mccormick out Of farm imple-
ments has been invested in many other
enterprises and almost unfailingly has
returned big dVidends. Cyrus McCor-
mick. Harold F. Mccormick, Mrs. Harold
F. Mccormick and Robert Hall McCor-
mick all are credited with Individual in
comes Of a million or more a year.
Marshall Field III, J. Ogden Armour,
Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs. George N.
Pullman all control fortunes returning
at least q million a year. Julius Rosen-
valid is another product of Illinois in the
privileged class.
The neighboring state Of Missouri has
turned out a few men with the magic
incomes. David R. Francis, of st. Louis.
is reputed to be worth 3O,OOO,OOO in
actively paying enterprises. Robert A.
Long, Of Kansas City, made fortune in
lumber and has increased it in realty
and other branches. William Rockhill
Nelson made q fortune out Of a news
paper and increased it many times over
by having the foresight to buy farming
land in the direct path of Kansas City's
growth. Long and Nelson are easily in
the million-a-year class. Lois Campbell.
of st. Louis, is fighting in the courts for
the sole right to a fortune of about
.25, 900.
Ohio has produced many very wealthy
men, but the original fortunes in a great
number Of cases have been divided.
Charles P. Taft, half brother Of the
former president; J. H. Wade, Jr., George
H. worthington. Ohio Columbus Barber
million-a-year men. The Mclean for
tune. founded in Cincinnati, Is now con-
trolled from Washington. Undoubtedly
it returns many millions each year.
Pennsylvania is rich in Croesuses, but
many now claim New York as their home.
Among those remaining in the state and
in the million-a-year class may be men,
toned the Thaws, Peacocks and Car
negies. Andrew Carnegie's fortune Is
so huge that it increases despite the i'm
mense gifts he makes constantly. How
many hundreds of millions Carnegie still
controls none but himself knows.
E. T. Stotesbury, Ambassador PEN
field, Charles c. Harrison, P. A B. Wide
ner, Percival Roberts, H. C. Trexler are
few Of the better known of the mil
lion-a-year class of the Keystone state.
Jumping through the country at
random. in out of the way places are
found million dollar incomes and their
possessors as follows: William Eden
born, of Louisiana; Henry Walters. Of
Maryland; B. n. Duke and Caesar Cone.
of North Carolina Isaac Stephenson, of
Wisconsin; James ]. Hill, of Michigan,
and ". A. Clark. of Montana, all pretty
we'll known, especially in their own vicin-
tiles.
Montana, alone, claims nearly a dozen
million-a-year men besides Clark, whose
fortune is outranked by few in America.
Marcus DAILY, Jr., Thomas NARROW. Lewis
Penwell, Senator T. J. Walsh, Samuel
McKennan, Conrad Khors, Nate Neilen-
berg, Joseph Dixon and Will A. Camp
bell. are few of the least known multi
millionaires of the rich mining state.
California has seen a large number Of
immense fortunes founded, but there,
as in Ohio, divisions Of estates have
robbed them Of their immensity. Several
Of the Huntington and Spreckels heirs
are probably getting a million or more
a year from the estates. Some heads Of
the numerous other families made
wealthy through mining, real estate spec
ulation, Asiatic commerce and oil may
be now getting million a year, but they
are not so enormously wealthy that they
stand much above the rest of the hun
dreds of California miIlionaires.
The list of the hundred men with in
comes of a million a year must neces-
sarily be incomplete. Nearly fifty of
them live in New York city alone. The
other fifty are scattered throughout the
country. That Uncle Sans income tax
returns show only forty-four, is not sur
prising. AS returns are completed, and
as the workings Of the new law are bet
ter understood and methods of investf-
cation perfected, other million-a-year
men and women will be brought forward.