The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-13
SELL FARM. OF WORDIN AGAINST HIS DIRECTIONS Estate on Toilsome Hill May Be Site For New Coun-
 try Club. TESTATOR WANTED IT
 HELD FOR MILLION Church Obtains Right to Sell Through Appeal to Su-
 preme Court.

Wordin, for many years physlclan and druggist in this city and direct descendant of founders of the or1glnaI Congregational church at Stratnelo' that his property on To1lsome hlII' once the site of the famous school. should be held in trust for Congrega- tionalists in this country until 1t had attained a value of one million dollars, have been thwarted.
 The will having been broken by ap- piication to the Supreme Court or the State of Connecticut, the historic prop erty by deed of sale filed yesterday in the Fairfield town clerks office has passed into other hands and may soon become the site of another handsome country club, or become a part or the handsome residential section that has recently sprung up into being in the Strathe1d section.
 Rich in the associations of historic legend the property is located upon the erninence of Toilsome hill, com manding a beautiful view of the Sound from Milford to Southport and over looking the industry of Bridgeport It is central between old Stratfeld and what is now Stratfeld road, contain ing 52 acres bounded by Toilsome Hill road, Greenfield Hill road, Stratfield road, and Valley Road. It was the site of the original Toilsome hill schoo1house built in the 16O0's and even now existing on the opposite side of StratfieId road behind the house Bronson Hawley farm. The home stead still remaining in modernized condition, two stories in height and for many years occupied by the late c. W. Peet, is said to have been the original residence of Deacon David Sherman, who founded the Congrega- tiona1 church at Stratf1eId that is now continued by the United Congrega- tionaI church of this city.
 The property. because of it's as- sociation with the Congregational church of this section, twas cherished by the late pr. Wordin as something that should perpetuate the fame of David Sherman and the old church.
 In hisa will filed at the time of his death, during the sos, it was stipulat- ed that. with life use to the heirs, the property should be left in trust with the Congregational Home Mission so- ciety to accumulate until it's value had reached the million dollar mark.
 It was recently decided by the so- ciety into whose possession it had fal- len that it's value in centuries to come would not meet with the expectations plicatton for permission to sell the tract was made to the supreme court of Connecticut and granted.
 The deeds filed in Fairfield yester- day show that it was conveyed by the Mission society to attorney John H. Casey, ct al." Though the considera- ton is given merely as "$1 and other valuable consideration the revenue stamps attached indicate that the price paid was $35,Oo0 and $4O,oo
 When asked at his office this morn ing to disclose the purpose of the sale and those interested, MT. Casey said: sI am not a liberty to divuIge the names of those interested. I merely acted as attorney in the purchase of this property for local persons. I may say, however, that a plan has been under consideration to make this the site of another country club similar to the Brooklawn club, which our land almost touches.
 Since the determination of Edward R. Ives to build a magnificent resi- dence on the six acres he has pur- chased adjoining the wordin estate. and the location of the bungalow by Christian M. Newman opposite the old Fo1lsome Hill school house site I un- derstand the original plans have been held temporarily in abeyance At any rate, can predict that within a wear the Wordin land will be either the site Of a modern country club or contain
 mansions equal to those that are now spreading out over the Brooklawn dis Etr1ct.''
 Toilsome Hill road is short stretch connecting the StratfeId district with Stratheld road or an extension of Park 1 avenue. ~ "A On the earliest maps of F2rid
 and Fairfield it had a prominent place the center of activity in Stratfe1d The old meeting house sat at the foot
 of the hill while half way up, accord | ing to indications, the schoolhouse law On the old maps, however the school | house Is shown as located at the in 1 tersectfon of Tof1son1e hill road and 1 Stratfe1d road and it is also tbere i that the home of Deacon Sherman was | located The old schooIhouse in l changed location, was used as such
 within the recollection of many of the present generation, who attended ii
 and watched at noontine with reg11k 1 1artty for the passing of the New York | to New Haven boat beyond an indi- | cated mark on the window to deter l mine the meridian. The old school is
 now a nni1khouse
 l Dr. Wordin, who descended from 2 1 prominent family of druggists in this 1 city, dating back to Revolutionary I days, was we'll known member o1
 the medical fraternity in this city, lfv-
 ing State street. where his two | daughters now reside and just east o1 ] Thomas C. Wordin, his father. who lived at State street and West avenu e
 now the site of an open-atr movine
 picture theatre. He retired from ac-
 tive business in 1850, though he dealt in realty and lived for many years A