DR BRANDRETH'S FORTUNE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2218, 27 April 1880, Page 3

DR BRANDRETH'S FORTUNE.

Brandreth, the famous pill man who died at Sing Sing a few days ago, left his children—seven daughters and six sons—pretty well off. His -will gives the daughters the Brandreth House property on Broadway, which is valued at 400,000d015., and all the remainder of the estate goes to his sons, who are to pay his widow 12,000d015. a year out of it. The pill and plaster business is to be carried on a usual, and tins in itself is a very large fortune. When Brandreth started his business he had harliy enough to pay daily expenses, but lie believed strongly in advertising, went into it as largely as he could, and finally came a millionaire by virtue of it. The regular doctors fought him a long time, but found at last that they could not light 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 ho could hardly use it all, and it still pours in the same way. At the beginning he had no expectation of making more than a good living, but 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 his funeral took place a few days ago almost every resident of the place was in .the procession that followed the hearse. Some very rich men go to their graves without a regret among the poor, but it was not so with Brandreth. He had been a good friend to the poor, ami of all the people in and around Sing Sing, and when lie died they all felt that they had lost a benefactor.