New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-28
MOTHER DISlNHERITS
VIC. RHINELANDER
Son Cut Off by Father for
Wedding Servant Gets
Only $1,000.
RESIDUE GOES TO
HIS TWO BROTHERS
No Word OF Reproach in Will,
Nor Is Family Skeleton Aired,
Except by Inference.

William Copeland Rhnclander, son
Of the late William Rhnelander and
Matilda Cruger Oakley Rhinelander.
members Of an old and we'll known
family in New York, whose father cut
him off with an income of 5000 a year
six years ago 10 show his resentment
because his son married servant OF
the household. is practically disin-
hcrited by the terms OF his mothers
viii which was filed in the SurroSates
Court yesterday.
Mrs. Rhinelander died on February
13 at No. Is West 4Sth street. Her
win was dated February Il, 1910.
There was no word Of reproach of the
dsowned son i'm the document. nor any
thing to suggest the family skeleton
except the unequal distribution of her
estate among her sons, William Cope
land Rhinelander. r. J. Oakley Rhine
lander and Philip Rhinelander. The
disowned son receives only $1,000 in
the will of his mother. The residue of
the estate is divided between the two
other sons.
This is perhaps the first public inti-
nation that the mother shared her hus-
bands feeling toward her son, who not
only contracted a distasteful marriage
when he made one of the family's SER
wants his wife, but erred again, in
the eyes Of his family, when he took
as his second wife n waitress. He Is
now living in Schenectady.
William Rhinclander left an estate
valued at S50,0O00U0. He gave the
greater part TO his sons, r. j. oakley
and Philip. month after William c..
Rhinelander married Margaret McGin-
mis-. in 1876. the father made a will dis
inheriting him. Even to the time Of
his death he never became reconciled
TO the son. However. he made a codi-
ell TO his will i'm which he authorized
his executors TO pay William c. Rhine
lander an income of 5000 year.
William c. Rhinela nder brought suit to
break the will, but the late Justice
Truax upheld the will in 1909, putting
aside the contention that Mr. Rhine
lander was not mentally competent 10
execute the Will.
At the time William c. Rhnelander
was preparing to fight his fathers will
Just after the senior Rhnelander' 3
death. i'm 1901. the son was found liv-
ing in tenement house in Albany
with his second wife, who was Miss
Juliette Kathleen Maier. whom no
married in 1891 She had been wait
ress i'm a restaurant in East 23d street.
II was said that he was paralyzed and
almost blind.
No one seems to know what has be-
come OF the two children that were
born of the first marriage. Rhine
lander i'm living out of New York fol-
lowing his first marriage. was carrying
out the Instructions Of his father, who
gave him an allowance on that condl-
tion. His grandfather, William Cope
ldDD iNlln'ldlUfis IpI Nnpln nc was
named, died in 1878. and cut him off
from n fortune OF 81 100000 because OF
his first marriage.
In Albany the scion Of the Rhine
lander family lived In penury A little
more than three years ago his wife
sued him for "A separation. but tho mat
ter was adjusted.
one Of the spectacular incidents IN
the life of William Copeland Rhine
lander was his shooting of John Drake,
his fathers attorney, in 1884. He was
never prosecuted.
The value Of the estate left by Mrs.
Matilda Cruger oakley Rhineander.
from which the ostraclsed son receives
only $1,000, is not stated