The Pulaskian., 1920-03-19
Poor Cousins Share in
Estate of Wealthy
Oil Man.
MILLIONAIRE LEFT NO WILL
Wealth Comes to Aged People Whose
Lives Have Been Largely Filled
with Hardships-t4unt for
Heirs Is Difficult.

Wheaton, III. - Satisfied smiles
kpread over nine faces in the corridors
h fbe red courthouse here recently, for
lime persons, whose lives had been
ssreely filed with hardships, knew
has within few weeks they would
BE- rich. Rich is the only applicable
sFord-wealth to these people had been
tothing but a dream.
Judge S. L. Rathje of the DuPage
bounty court had just indicated that
i've of the nine were legal heirs to the
100000 estate of William 2. Cowan,
Former president of the Standard Oil
Eompany Of Indiana, who died at his
Wheaton country home in the summer
bf 1918. The other four We're hus-
bands and wives of the heirs.
Nine to Share $2,5oo,ooo.
with the establishment of heirship
1g The five relatives of the wealthy oil
ban the total number of heirs who
bill receive a share of the estate is
pine. After expenses have been de-
Quoted according to attorneys, the es-
late will total more thar S2,500,000.
Each of the nine heirs viii receive
|omethIng like 100000 when the in
leritance taxes are paid.
Three of the heirs are more than
FPyenty years of age, one is ninety,
he Youngest is forty-four years old.
None Of them remember personally
lhe man whose death brought them
Ehis benefaction. But two ever saw
PIN. They look upon their inheritance
ls some vague dream of paradise.
The heirs who established their
flaims are:
William Saxton, seventy-two years
1d, Eagle, Mich.
Walter Saxton, seventy-two years
Pa, Waucausta, Mich.
Charles Saxton, sixty-eight years
|ld, Elsie, Mich.
Mrs. Caroline Saxton Hart, fifty
|lsht years Old. Grand Ledge, Mich.
Mrs. r. B. Colby, forty-four years
Pa, Cadillac, Mich.
William and Walter Saxton are
wins, William is married and his
Eife was in Wheaton with him. Mrs.
|oDy and Mrs. Hart had their hus-
Pahds along, too.
Other cowan Heirs.
The other heirs who have estah-
R|shed sufficient evidence of relation
mp to Mr.. Cowan to win an indiea-
Pon Of equity from Judge Rathje are:
Judson Phelps, ninety years old, De-
|roit. Mich.
Henry B. Stillwell, seventy years
''a Gloversville, N. Y.
William G. Stillwell. seventy-two
ears old, Springfield, Mass.
hers at law of Mrs. Helen Shad-
'ol, Plymouth, N. Y, who was ninety
I'VE Years old when she died few
Weeks ago.
All Of the heirs are cousins-first,
Z. - thilN. 4NO utdIeT klli Souid
$ round by Alfred G. Hoy, public adj
illustrator of DuPage county.
Inc days hearing before Judge
'a'hle did not close the case. A few
lore DISPOSITIONS must be taken,
w more weeks must elapse before
" lurlst can enter a decree. But the
aAton boys are happy.
when in 1918 it was learned that
$, 1owan, successful business man
y, one of the rich residents of the
"'ago Golf club colony at Wheaton,
~ aled md left no will, Wheaton
,'laered. Then it was announced
'1a' mere we're no heirs in this state.
-. SoWan's death had preceded her
~ and there were no children
''a no brothers or sisters.
49, aaoiic Administrators Hoy took inl-
a.a charge Of the estate and ap-
ny Charles W. Hadley and George
all sill his attorneys. Mr.. Hadley is
ra attorney Of DuPage county
81 aas a weakness for flaring ties.