New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-27
Aunt, Like His Father and
Mother and Grandfather,
Cuts Him Off.
LOST MILLIONS BY
WEDDING 2 SERVANTS
Brother of T. Oakley and Philip
Never Forgiven for Blows
to Family Pride.

For the third time in six years, and
for the fourth time in his life, Will
lam Copeland Rhinelander, son of the
late William Rhinelander and the late
Mrs. Matilda Cruger Oakley Rhine
lander, has been disinherited. Cut off
by his father, who left an estate valued
at S50,000,000, with an income of $4,000
year, and again cut off with $1,000
by his mother, who died last February,
the will of Miss Serena Rhinelander,
en- aunt of William c. Rhinelander,
fled in the Surrogates' Court yester-
day, gave two-ffths of the residue Of
her estate to T. Oakley Rhinelander
and Philip Rhinelander, brothers of
the much disinherited man, and did not
even mention the other nephew.
The common reason that prompted
the action of father, mother and aunt
were the two distasteful marriages
contracted b. William C. Rhinelander,
first marrying a servant of the family
and later taking as his second wife a
waitress.
Back in 1878, for one Of these Of
fences against the family pride and
after his first marriage, the luckless
one was disinherited by his grand
father, William c. Rhinelander, for
whom he was named, who cut him off
from q fortune of S1,000,000.
Miss Rhinelander, who died on June
II at IA Washington Square North, the
family homestead, left $4,000 each to
the Church Of the Ascension and st.
James's Church, $4,000 to the Chill
dren's Aid Society and $4,000 to the
| New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. The
! bequests to the churches are to be used
as permanent funds TO keep in repair
the windows and other memorials of
her father given by the testatrix and
her sister. The bequest to the Chill
dren's Aid Society is for the mainte-
nance of the Rhinelander Industrial
/ School at $50 East SSth st.
T. Oakley Rhinelander, one of her
nephews, is to have the use of the fam
lily house Tor life, some family silver
and one-ffth of the residue of the
estate. He also receives a collection
Of portraits of Miss Rhinelander's
J father.
The other four-ffths of the residue,
! besides silver and other personal be-
! longings, are left to Philip Rhineland-
er, William Rhinelender Stewart and
/ Lispenard Stewart, nephews, and Mrs.
Mary Stewart Witherbee, niece.
/ Maud Lee McKim receives $4,000,
James P. Burrell $4,000 and fourteen
servants and other employees receive
an aggregate of $3.50, while Catherine
/ Boyce, another servant, will have an
annuity of S1OO for life.
William Copeland Rhnelander. the
much disinherited, is now living in
/ Schenectady. His first marriage was
/ in 1876, when he took as his wife
Margaret McGinnis, a servant in the
household of his parents. A month
later his father made will disinherit-
/ ing him. Even to the time Of his
death, the father never became recc -
I ciled to his son, but he did add codi-
ell TO his will, directing the executors
/ that the son remain out of New York.
The greater part Of the estate went to
the other sons, T. Oakley Rhinelander
and Philip Rhinelander
Then, in 1897, the son married Juli-
ette Kathlee.. Maier, waitress in a
esd ST. restaurant.
One Of the spectacular incidents in
the life of Rhinelander was his shoot
ing of John Drake, his fathers at
torney, in 1884. He was not prose
euted. Rhinelander sued to break his
fathers will on the ground that the
latter was not Of sound mind, but the
court upheld the will.