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...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...
...Garrett died in 1895 his will disposed of $6,000,000 to his wife, directed her to have her will drawn in favor of charitable institutions because he did not want his fortune squandered on her relatives or his. Lectured Tobacconist Garrett: "Do not let any scalawags get any." Henrietta Garrett outlived her husband 35 years, dying in 1930 at 80 in a dingy house at No. 404 South Ninth Street, which had no electric light. She left no will...
Case No. 2552. Henrietta Garrett did leave, however, a scribbled "request" to the manager of her investments, Charles S. Starr, who had increased the $6,000,000 left by Walter Garrett to $17,000,000 in 1930. Since then the estate has been fattened further. The note the widow left said: "Dear Mr. Charles S. Starr-Give you my estate and belongings which are named in my book per a/c the following amounts: Give to Henrietta G. Ferguson the sum of $10,000. . . ." Thus she gave away $62,500 to friends and servants, but omitted the residuary phrase...
Orphans' Court was the name of a relatively obscure London justice hall after which William Penn modeled his Philadelphia court to handle estates, wills and trusts. Kingpin in any distribution of Henrietta Garrett's estate is stubby, scholarly Judge Allen M. Stearne, 54, who went to England to dig into the origins of the court in which he sits. No snuffer, Judge Stearne likes to smoke his pipe when out of the Orphans' Court, philosophize about his work. Says he: "We do have contact with the rattling skeletons and the filth and the slime, yet on occasion...