MRS GARFIELD'S WEALTH.
! A flevelander says ; Mrs Gar field' has $300,000 in Government bonds, the result or' v tiie'3nbscr'iptjd i nr' I hen her hushand l^ life wag insured, for $50,000, whi6h was promptly ree'ei veil. s|ie wa-» a.l so paid ti^e .salary of the President for the unoccupied 'first 'year, a'n.duntuig to. about $50,000. ?1 hat ■ makes $400,000, dws it not ? Very wjell. 1 hen j»dd to it abouti ß3o 000, the total v^t4ue of Garfiell's estate. That was the total amount, nfter all ; the abuse that was received, that he ; jvas able to accumulate in a life <if fifty years. I suppose that the income from this totah of more than $400,000, will b?, perhaps, $19,000, a year. So she id' coin tori able, «nd can raise er children well : but the slops of Giirtield v/as-a~blow that will leave its scar as long as she lives. ■Ameiican Paper- ( ; ■ ■■'- ■'•-' '•
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 22, 30 August 1882, Page 3
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150MRS GARFIELD'S WEALTH. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 22, 30 August 1882, Page 3
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