The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-07-09
HENRY FIELD,
HEIR TORCHES,
DIES SUDDENLY
Was Apparently Recovering
From Operation, Has Re-
lapse in Hospital.
SHARED IN S2O0,0OO,OO0
Marshall Sd to Get Millions if
Brother Has No
Child.

Henry Field, younger son of the late
Marshall Field. Jr.. and grandson Of
Marshall Field, Chlcagos great mer-
chant, died yesterday in Presbyterian
Hospital following an operation for an
abscess performed upon him last Thurs
day. His death was unexpected. for he
had seemed to be improving.
Nevertheless, his wife and his older
and only brother, Marshall Field Sd.
hurried here from Chicago as soon as
they heard OF Henry's illness, and were
with him many hours day. The at
tachment between the two brothers fire.
ouently had been remarked. They had
small chance to make other friends dur
ing a boyhood spent largely in travel,
and they were bound together also by
their common griefs.
Their father and grandfather died
within six weeks of each other the
father by a mysterious gunshot wound.
and Il was only two years ago that their
mother died. She had married Capt.
Maldwyn Drummond Of the British
army.
Riches Awaited Field.
Henry Field never came to enjoy his
share Of his grandfather's S200,00O,0OO
estate. He would have been 22 years
old on the 18th of this month. BY the
will Of his grandfather he was to have
received $500, 900 when he was 20, $780,
900 when he was 80 and like sums when
he became IS and 40.
Since the death of Marshall Field in
January, 1906, Henry and his brother
have been dividing one-half of the net
income of the estate. The other half of
the net income has been allowed to
accumulate and was to be paid to them
when they attained the age of 40. When
each attained the age of so the estate
was to be divided, three-fifths to Mar
shall Sd and two-fifths to Henry.
The will also provided that II either
of the gnndsons. should die without
children before the distribution of the
trust estate his share should go abso-
lutely to the other. Henry was married
last February to Miss Nancy Keen
Perkins, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T.
Moncure Perkins of Richmond Va, and
granddaughter of Col. c. d. Langhorne.
The marriage took place at the home of
Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, the brides
aunt.
law, Marshall Field Sd were in New
York at the bedside of Mr.. Field they
were the guests OF Mrs. Gibson at the
Hotel buckingham. At that hotel last
night a representative of the Field fam
lily said that Mr. Fields body would be
taken to-day to Greenwood, Va, a little
town In the Blue Ridge Mountains,
where his wife lived before their mar
riage. Further arrangements for the
funeral have not been made.
Weaker Brother Survives.
Besides his brother, surviving blood
relatives OF Henry Field are a sister.
Gwendolyn. whose share in the estate
was $4,000 outright: a nephew, the
baby, Marshall Field 4th, and his aunt
Lady David Beatty. wife of the British
Admiral commander of the grand fleet
1t is the irony Of fate that the weaker
OF the Field brothers should survive the
more robust. In childhood Marshall Sd
was i'll much of the time and was most
carefully nurtured and drilled in the
open to build up the physique he should
need when he assumed command OF the
Field interests
Upon the death of Marshall Field, Jr,
November "a 1905. his widow took the
two boys to England They were edu-
Gated at Eton and Cambridge and came
to the United States a few years ago.
Henry Field was in England at the
outbreak of the world war and imme-
diately volunteered for service in the
British army. He became chauffeur for
an officer Of the British General Stan
and served in that capacity for some
months He then came to the United
States for a rest and it was on that trip
that he became acquainted with Miss
Perkins at Darkharbor Me, where the
summer home OF Marshall Field Sd ad.
Joins the Perkins estate.
Marshall Field Sd married Miss
Evelyn Marshall. daughter of the late
Charles II. Marshall. in New York Feb
ruary I, 1915.