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...little poodle trotted to & fro one day last fortnight in the old Manhattan house where Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel lay dead (TIME, March 23). He went into the room where Rev. Drs. Nathan A. Seagle and Ezra Squier Tipple were getting ready to conduct the funeral. He jumped up & down before them, "as if," said Dr. Seagle, "he were pleading to serve as an acolyte...
Left. By Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel (see p. 26), an estate estimated at more than $100,000,000, to be divided into 200 equal shares (of $500,000 upward) as follows: Flower Hospital, Manhattan, 35 shares; Drew Theological Seminary, 35 shares; St. Christopher's Home for Children, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., 35 shares; New York Society for Relief of Ruptured & Crippled, 35 shares; Nanking (China) M. E. Theological Seminary, 35 shares; M. E. Church Home, Manhattan, 4 shares; National Society for Prevention of Blindness, 5 shares; S. P. C. A. of New York, 5 shares; Northfield Schools, Mass...
Died. Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, 80, last and youngest of Manhattan's rich, eccentric, land-owning Wendels; of apoplexy in the night; in the famed old Wendel house at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue. Ever since the. first John Gott- lieb Wendel, contemporary of John Jacob Astor, made a fortune in furs, the family had followed his precept: Buy, but never sell, property. Heiress of at least $100,000,000 in real estate, Ella Wendel lived all her life a recluse in the ugly old red-brick house (last appraised at $6,000) on the corner (last appraised...