Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-23
wendell PROPERTY
SALE IS PROVIDED
Will Declares 200 Shares of
500, 900, 900 Estate Shall
Go for Charities.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 23-Sale Of
realty holdings approximating $780,
0o0, 900 is ordered in the will Of Miss
Ella wendell, last Of the famous old
New York family. After certain specific
requests, the bulk Of the estate Is to be
divided into 200 parts, which are to go
in varying proportions to hospitals,
church mission societies and other
charities.
Home TO Be Memorial.
Coineident with the filing Of the will
George Flint Warren, jr., attorney for
the executors, issued a statement noting
the more prominent gifts. other than
those to the residuary legatees."
The Wendell family home at Fifth
avenue and Thirty-ninth street is be-
queathed to Drew Theological Seminary
as a memorial to the decendent's
father, the late John D. Wendell"
Four benef1ciaries receive IS shares
each Of the residuary estate. They are
the Drew Theological Seminary, Madi-
son, N. j.; st. Christopher'S Home for
Children, Dobbs Ferry, n. Y; New
York Society for the Relief Of Ruptufed
and Crippled, Board Of Foreign Mis-
sions Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
for the Marking Theological Seminary
at Marking. China, and the New York
Homeopathic Medical College and
Flower Hospital, exclusively for the
Flower Hospital"
Relationships Claimed.
A skeleton ratified n1acaber across the
golden floor of the Wendell closet has
tapped complement to flesh and blood's
swelling claims against q hundred mil
lion.
In Providence, r. l., woman with
a yellowed slip of paper implied a
secret marriage, secret birth; Ball
timore brother and sister pressed their
efforts to prove distant relationship;
a Wendell in Jefferson, Ind, reached
to bygone times in Germany for coll
lateral connection.
The woman in Providence-Mrs
Mabel Hayward-claims she is the
daughter of John Gottlieb Wendell, jr.,
son of the man who founded the Wen
del fortune in the fur business as
cotemporary Of John Jacob Aston.
Wendell, last man of the line, died
in 1915. He was graduated from
Columbia University, set up in bust
ness in Albany and a year later-so
goes the Hayward claim-Inarried Han
nah Holt at East Greenwich, Conn.
Lineage Traced to Germany.
Hannah Holt died when she gave
birth to a daughter. The elder Wen
del called his son home and had the
baby placed in a private family. Thus,
Mrs. Hayward'S story
The yellowed slip of paper purports
to be the marriage certificate All that
is known publicly about the life OF
John Gottlieb Wendell, jr., Is that nc
carried on his fathers policy Of buy
but never sell Manhattan real estate, y
that he kept his six sisters in seclu-
sion, frowned on marriage for them
and disapproyed of any social life.
Alexander Wendell, In Jeffersohville
Ind, claims his grandfather was shilling
to John Gottlieb Wendell sr., and he
was preparing to trace the lineage back
to an age before the Wendell family
emmigrated from Germany.
The claims Of August Scoop, theater
handy man, and his sister, Jennie, in
Baltimore were based on Wendell
quarter in their coat of arms: visit
made to Miss Ella at her trownlng
barred and shattered Fifth avenue
home. and German ancestry.