THE AMERICAN HOLLOWAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1967, 14 June 1880, Page 2

THE AMERICAN HOLLOWAY.

Brandreth, the famous pill man, who died at Sing Sing recently, left hia children— seven daughters and six sons—pretty well off. Hia will gives the daughters the Brandeth Houae property on Broadway, which is valued at 400,000 dole., and all the remainder of the estate goes to hia sons, who are to allow the widow 12,000 dola. a-year out of it. The pill and plaster buainess is to be carried on as usual, and this in itselfj.is a very large fortune. When Brandreth started his business he had hardly enough to pay daily expenses, but he believed strongly in advertising, went into it as largely as he could, and finally became a millionaire

by virtuo of it. The regular doctor a fought him a long time, but found at last that they could not fight him down, and then they gave it up. His pills went all over the world, and the money came rolling in upon him so fast that he could hardly use it at all, and_ it_ still pours in the same way. At the beginning he had no expectation of making more than a good living, bat the sale of the pills kept rising year by year, and he grew rich as fast as a few lucky men have done in Wall street. He built a splendid country home at Sing Sing, spent money freely in the village, and became so popular that, when hia funeral took place almost every resident of the place was in the procession that followed the rearse. Soma very rich men go to their grave without a regret among the poor, but it was not so with Brandreth. He had been a good friend to the poor, and all of the people in and around Sing Sing, and when he died they all felt that they had lost a benefactor. *