Word: penfield
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Died. Mrs. Anne Weightman Penfield, 88, philanthropist, onetime "richest woman in the U. S.," relict of the late and last Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Frederic Courtland Penfield; of pneumonia, after one day's illness; in Manhattan. At the death of her father, William Weightman, "the quinine king," she was sole heiress to a fortune of between $35,000,000 and $50,000,000, founded during the Civil War by selling quinine to the Federal Government (the old firm, Powers Si Weightman, was absorbed by Merck...
...will write include: Professor E. P. Cheyney, of the University of Pennsylvania; Professor Ernest Nelson; Professor Wilhelm Pauck of the University of Chicago; Reverend Mr. R. H. Lord '06, assistant professor of Government; C. J. Friedrick; Miss Violet Barbour, of Vassar; Professor L. B. Packard '09, of Amherst; Professor Penfield Roberts '16; Professor Walter Dorn; Professor Leo Gershoy; C. C. Brinton '19, assistant professor of History; Professor Guy Stanton Ford; Professor Fredrick Artz; Professor W. L. Langer '15; Professor Robert Binkley; Professor Carleton Hayes, of Columbia University; Professor S. B. Fay '06; Professor Charles Seymour of Yale; and Professor William...
...PENFIELD...