AMAZING FORTUNE
AGED SPINSTER HEIRESS. NEW YORK, July 30. The last of six sisters, Miss Ella Wendel, aged 80, now becomes the sole heiress to an unbroken realty accumulation of two centuries, worth £25,000,000. T’.io only brother, John Gottleib Wendel, opposed marriage for the sisters on the ground that it would disperse the estate and introduce other names. To prevent such an occurrence he built a mansion in 1800 which still stands shuttered from Fifth Avenue, lighted by gas only, and without a telephone, radio or phonograph. ( util their eyesight faded the sisters invariably dressed in black, and made their own clothes without the aid of a sewing machine. Rebecca Swope, who has just died, was the only one to marry. When she \\n.> wedded tier brother forbade the othei sisters ever to attend church. Mrs Swope and her sister avoided public mention for many years. The fortune was founded by their grandfather. who invested the profits in his fur business in real estate. He never sold good real estate once ho had acquired it, and liis heirs adhered to that plan.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1930, Page 5
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182AMAZING FORTUNE Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1930, Page 5
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