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Awarded. To Harold Fowler McCormick, Muriel McCormick Hubbard, Mathilde McCormick Oser, children of Chicago Capitalist Harold Fowler McCormick (International Harvester Co.) and the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick: thirds of the $12.000,000 trust fund set up for their mother by their grandfather John Davison Rockefeller Sr., claimed by Mrs. McCormick's friend Architect Edwin Krenn, to whom she bequeathed five-twelfths of her estate; by the District Court of Appeals; in Poughkeepsie...
...Chicago. Mrs. Max Oser, daughter of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick, wife of a onetime Swiss riding master, changed the names of her children, Anita and Peter, from Oser to Oser-McCormick...
...Fowler had married Mrs. Anne Urquhart ("Fifi") Stillman, 19 years his senior; her daughter Muriel, Major Elisha Dyer Hubbard, 24 years her senior; her daughter Mathilde, Swiss Riding Master Max Oser, 30 years her senior. Each of these marriages upset her. In her will she left Muriel only four-twelfths of her estate. Mathilde two-twelfths, faithful Fowler only one-twelfth...
Left, By the late Thomas Alva Edison: an estate estimated at $14,000,000; to his six children (save for $28,000 to three old employes). The children of his first marriage (to Mary G. Stilwell, died 1884) are Mrs. Marion Estelle Edison Oser of Norwalk. Conn., relict of a German officer; Thomas Alva Edison Jr., consulting engineer to Edison industries; William Leslie Edison, 53, inventor, of Wilmington, Del. The children of Mrs. Mina Miller Edison, who is mentioned in the will as having been "adequately provided for," are Charles Edison, 41, president of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Mrs. John...
...Wilmington tinkering electrical inventions, announced he would contest the codicil on the grounds that his brother Charles and the stepmother had brought undue influence to bear. Though he hinted that he would "not be alone" in the suit, he received no public promises of support from the family. Mrs. Oser called the codicil "unfair...