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...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 at $3,684,000). Friends said her seclusion was voluntary, her life happy...
...emerged a campus idol. Yale done, he went to Harvard, studied harder than he had ever previously found necessary and emerged a sufficiently learned lawyer. Thence to his native Cleveland where he lived as if no other city existed. He had by this time married Louise Harkness (Standard Oil heiress) who has borne him three daughters. A clerk in the famed law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, he argued small jury cases in court as intensely as if they had been national issues. With great personal enthusiasm he invested in various local enterprises and took with grave responsibility...
Born. To Alfred Cecil Durban, onetime British newsboy, and Mrs. (Vivienne Maud Huntington) Durban, daughter of the late Manhattan Architect Charles Pratt Huntington, heiress to part of the fortune of the late Railman Collis Potter Huntington; a daughter. 10 lb.; in Logansport, Ind., where the Durbans sought to hide from the public eye. Name: Frances Charlotte...
Married, Katherine Silva Cornell, 17. heiress to the late Oilman Robert Oglesby; and Count Jan Drohojowski, Berlin correspondent for the Kurjer Poznanski of Poznan (Posen), Poland; in Tulsa, Okla. Headlined the New York Telegram: COUNT WEDS...
...ghost. When Tony and Pen came back from their long honeymoon abroad Julie found she could face her former idol without batting an eye; more, that Husband Nick was the man for her. And just then, of course, it was discovered Julie was really the long-lost Barnes heiress: her virtue was rewarded a thousandfold...