Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor of San Francisco, onetime (1915-21) U. S. Senator; upwards of $10,000,000. Bequests: to the James Duval Phelan Foundation and other San Francisco institutions, $4,000,000; to Gertrude Atherton, "California's great authoress," $20,000, and $5,000 each to her four children and grandchildren; to Helen Newington Wills Moody, $20,000 and valuable works of art "in appreciation of her winning the tennis championship for California"; to many a friend in the U. S., South America and England, many a thousand; to two nieces and a nephew, most of the residue. Excerpt from...
...treasure; by the first John Jacob Astor (1763-1848). Another oldtime furrier was one John Gottlieb Wendel, who retired about the same time as John Jacob Astor and who, like Astor, put his money into Manhattan realty. Last week died Mrs. Rebecca Wendel Swope, next to last of seven grandchildren of John Wendel. Miss Ella Wendel, the surviving sister, remained sole owner of realty now worth something over $100,000,000. Since the Astor holdings are now split up among three heirs, Ella Wendel became Manhattan's land-richest individual...
...Designer. Maitland Barkelew Bleecker, 27, is a direct descendant of Jan Jansen Bleecker who reached New Amsterdam (Manhattan) in 1658, and whose grandchildren established the Bleecker Farm on the property now traversed by Manhattan's Bleecker Street. Generation after generation of Bleeckers were strongly represented in New York's political, social and business life until recently. Designer Bleecker studied at the Bach School of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Michigan. He conceived his helicopter idea six years ago, took it in 1926 to Curtiss, who lent their resources and facilities to its development...
...Eyes (Morse Players of St. Louis) and Maxine Finsterwald's Seven Against One (Association Players Stock Company, Manhattan) were the plays singled out for the two Samuel French (play publisher) $200 prizes awarded to the best unpublished dramas. In Eyes an old paralytic stared on while her grandchildren sank into corruption, but rose and walked when a ruffian tried to seduce her granddaughter in her presence. Seven Against One, played on a double stage, showed a group of patriotic priests praying for the death of a dictator who had jailed them. On the other side, the politician acutely suffered...
...Vale, Miss., died "Uncle" Willis Pittman, 101, survived by 12 children, no grandchildren, 150 great-grandchildren, 75 great-great-grandchildren...