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...Orphans' Court a case which was such a case that 550 Philadelphia lawyers were needed, and in addition, 2,500 from outside the prosperous pale of Philadelphia's bar. Proceedings in Case No. 2552 of 1932 are to determine the heirs, if any, of Henrietta Edwardina Garrett, deceased. Claiming her estate of more than $20,000,000 are some 17,000 persons from every State in the U. S. and 29 foreign countries, each of whom has been assured of a "day in court...
...court" for 275 claimants. At that rate it will take 15 years to hear the "heirs." To make this unlikely the court has distributed a complicated questionnaire to fill out which asks for such information as the full name and place of marriage of the one of Henrietta Garrett's 16 great -great -grandparents through which the claimant's relationship to her is asserted. Already 280 "common ancestors" have been put forward...
...persons-the first four platoons of a division of 17,000 claimants, 3,050 lawyers-heard a handful of witnesses go to the witness stand microphone to answer lengthy questioning. Chief witness of the day was William J. Proud, for 38 years superintendent of Laurel Hill Cemetery, where Henrietta Garrett and her close kin are buried. He identified pictures of tombstones on Lot No. 320, Section...
Snuff. Fabulous is the story of Henrietta Edwardina Garrett's $20,000,000 fortune. It came from snuff. On board William Penn's plague-ridden ship Welcome when it arrived in the U. S. in 1682 was a Garrett. He prospered in new Philadelphia with a small snuff shop on Front Street. His descendants prospered, also in snuff. One of these was Walter Garrett, born in 1831. He married Henrietta Edwardina Schaeffer, a girl of humble origin, in 1872 after a romance which began on a front porch which she was scrubbing...
...Kostrellos '37 leads the 125-pounders with a record of but one defeat in Varsity competition. Undefeated as a Yardling mittman, Kostrellos boxed in the 115-pound rank two years ago. Bill Garrett is another 125 man but lacks the experience of his competitor...