YOUNG WIDOW WILL
FIGHT FOR MILLIONS
OF HER FATHER-IN-LAW
Disposition of Estate of Samuel S. Brown, Pittsburg
Magnate, Reveals ScanJal.
LEFT MUCK MONEY TO HIS LATEST PEI
Girl at the. Last Supplanfed Wife of Dead Son in the Old
Man's Affections Wili Was Made as He
Lay on His Death Bed.
"Better an old man's darling than
a young man's slave-," runs the old
Bong.
Probably Martha E. Lewis will con
cur, but Mrs. Grace McGoodwln
Brown, daughter-in-law of the late
Samuel S. Brown, Smoky City mag
nate and multi-millionaire, can hard
ly be expected to.
Idolized and petted by her father
in-law for 15 «years, taught to con
eider herself his heiress, and intro
duced everywhere as his daughter, she
finds herself left a paltry $30,000,
•while her supplanter, Martha E.
Lewis, has been given a sum exceed
ing $250,000.
And a contest in the courts which
will enrich lawyers and furnish sensa
tions to satisfy the most scandal
hungry dame is promised.
For Mrs. Brown and all the rela
tives of the dead millionaire assert
that his latest will, executed on his
dtath bed, was made under undue
Influence and is unjust and unfair.
Worth Over 820.000,000.
Samuel S. Brown died last Decem
ber. He left an estate scattered all
the way between Pittsburg, New York
and New Orleans which is conserva
tively estimated at $20,000,000. He
also left a will which is the bone of
contention.
Mrs. Brown, young widow of the
dead magnate's only son, had been
told that she was to be his bene
ficiary. A goodly ' portion of the
estate was to have been hers. Yet,
when the will was read, she found
herself cut off with a paltry batch of
brewery bonds, and these togo should
ehe remarry.
But Miss Lewis, bitter enemy of the
millionaire's daughter-in-law, bene
fited to the extent of a quarter of a
million and more. She had already
supplanted the beautiful Kentucky
be'le as the head of the old man's
household before his death. That was
the last straw; then came the open
breach.
It is a strange story—how these two
young women came into the life of
the millionaire. There were a son
and a daughter whom the old man
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Id); was too Rood for them.
Inception of Romnr.ce.
Fifteen years a«o William Brown,
the millionaire's only son. was sent
to Kentucky to superintend the build
ing of a railroad in which his father
tvus interested. There he met a hlue
grass belle beautiful Grace McGood
win, barely turned 11.
The boy's head was turned. It was
plainly love at flr;t night. There was
an anient courtahlp. and the youthful
suitor won. Tim' day there came to
the old man lu Pittsburg this its
patch:
I'rlneeton. Ky,
H K. Ilruwn I'MtxlnirK. I't
I nm t" l»- in.nr.fit i.i the <t«-iir*«t
girl In the wo;l<l. W11.1..
That same day this wire went back
to Kentucky:
Pittsburgr, Pa.
William Prown, Princeton, Ky.:
Wait. 1 urn coming down thnt way
this week. S. S. BROWN.
For an answer this came back:
Can't wait. WILL.
And this was the reply:
All ricrht. Go ahead. God bless you
both. Bring her home. FATHER.
But it was not so fated. Will
Brown, undisputed heir to the larger
share of his father's millions, did not
bring his bride home. She brought
him home —in a coffin. Almost the
next day he fell ill and was dead
within a week. The bride-widow, al
most ill with her grief, met her fa
ther-in-law and went straight to his
heart.
"You must stay here with us, my
dear." said the millionaire, "and be
my daughter, too. I know Will would
have wished it so."
Old Man's Daughter Dead.
So the girl stayed along with the
old man, and year after year made
herself better loved by him. Then
came another blow— hi 3 only living
child, his daughter Nellie, died in
Italy.
"I am afraid my poor old heart will
break," said the old man, bowed un
der this added weight of woe.
There was no one to turn to save his
daughter-in-law now. He called her to
him one day soon after the funeral,
and said:
"Stay here with me, for I am left
alone. Be the head of my household,
and when I die you will be the same
in my will as if you were my own
daughter. And why not? Are you
not the wife of my dead son, my only
boy?"
But the girl did not need this prom
ise. She loved the old man as the
father of her boy husband. Her sis
ter came to live with them and she
took her place at the head of the
Brown household. The servants were
instructed to obey her in everything,
and wherever she went she was in
troduced by the millionaire as "my
daughter Grace, my son's widow, dear
to~"me as my own."
Everywhere it was understood that
the young widow was to be his heir
ess. Folks were told that Mr. Brown's
life was insured for SIOO,OOO in her
favor.
Martha Lewis Appeals.
Mrs. Brown's sister married and
she went back to Kentucky with In r
for a visit. That was the beginning
iof the end. When she returned she
found that Miss Lewis had been aski d
to live at the Browns'.
"Grace," said the old millionaire, by
way of niakinir clear how things stood,
'Just take Marty and buy her some
t hliiU'C. and show her how to wear
them."
"Marty" was what Mr. Brown elect
ed to call the pretty mif 1 he had in
• stalled as hi- protege iu the bin house.
Young Mrs. Brown balked some, but
ih« did as she wa* told. But ahe
refuv d to introduce the rlrl to her
■ frltju -, and she »Uil Mr. Urunun
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1906
mentor whfn h«» went to New York
on matters nodal.
Martha E. I*ewin wan the daughter
of a boat caulker employed by Mr.
Brown. When only a child In short
dresses the millionaire had taken to
lior because who reminded him of his
dead daughter when she wan a tiny
girl. When fihe grew older he niade
her liis almoner In h lb many charities,
and when she was out of her teens
he had her made secretary of the Sun
day school which he had endowed.
Gifts were showered upon her just
as the were upon Miss CJraco lirown.
For awhile things went along smooth
ly enough on the surface, but Mrs.
Brown gradually discovered that she
was being undermined. Miss Lewis
finally got control of tho astablish
rnent and ran it with an iron hand.
Family .flakes Objections.
The other Browns —brothers, cous
ins and nephews—didn't like this at
all. They demanded that Miss Lewis
be at least sent to live elsewhere and
that Mrs. Grace Brown be brought
back from Kentucky, where she had
gone, to give tone to the household.
"Not for a minute," retorted the old
man. "Grace has chosen to live away
\\ PfitfryM/iolew/5 \eeomtrc/t :
from me and I will not trouble her."
Apparently, however, the aged mil
lionaire was still fond of his son's
widow. She spent a part of the sea
son with Mr. Brown last year and as
the Christmas holidays were approach
ing she received a hurried call to come
to the old man's bedside.
He was dying.
The young widow caught the first
train. But as she sped through the
darkness another will was being made
in Pittsburg in the old Brown man
sion. With a few strokes of the pen
all she had believed was to be hers
was blotted out. But no one told her
this when she reached Pittsburg the
next morning.
Young Mrs. Brown was received
with open arms. Twenty days later
Samuel S. Brown died. During those
20 days the deathbed will did not
come to light. Mrs. Brown's friends
say that it was purposely hidden so
that she would know nothing about it
until it should be too late. The mil
lionaire died, surrounded by his fam
ily, while Mrs. Brown knelt at the
bedside.
Will Kept Secret.
Never were greater efforts made to
keep a will from becoming public. It
was filed secretly. The authorities
were ordered to keep it secret and
meekly complied. The family lawyer
furnished an extract to the newspa
pers, but all reference to either of the
young women in the case was careful
ly eliminated.
"That's all we care to give out to
the newspapers," was the lawyer's
curt rejoinder when pressed for an ex
planation.
But the New York Sunday W'prld's
correspondent in Pittsburg made
things so interesting for all concerned
that finally the entire contents of the
will were made public as provided by
law.
Then the storm broke. The feud
became public property. Promptly
there came a demand from the officers
of the Mary Brown church that Miss
Lowls resign her posltiou in the Sun
day school.
Forced to Leave Sunday School.
The church had Mr. Brown's $70,-
000. They eared no longer. They had
bowed to fits will In life, and they
had Install*' I his protegt* to a posi
tion of distinction In church affair
Now they would have no more of her.
At a public hearing she asked
to resign, and she did.
Then she announced that she In
tended marrying and that was her
ostensible reason for retiring. Hhe
and Wllll&m AMhur Porter, a race
Uack employe of old oitiii Uruwn s,
had long been In lnv*. In fn't, they
loved each other before he wu taken
111.
Here were the provision* of tho will
concerning the young women in thu
cas«:
Bequests to Martha Lewis.
fiproml "l give and bequeath to the
I nlon Trust company of Pittsburg (lint
mortgage bonds of the Pittsburg Brew
ing ' urupany tr> the aggregate value of
(30,(KM), In trust nevertheless, to pay tho
nit interest am! Income then from to
toy daughter-in-law Grace M. Brown
for ami during the term of tier natural
llt'a. If she so long remain a widow ami
from ami after her marriage or death.
In further trust to divide or dlatl buta
the principal of said trust fund to the
persons hereinafter provided fur In the ;
case of my residuary estate, and I atl- ;
thorlze and empower sa'd trustee, to
sell said bonds, and to reinvest the pro
ceeds of salo at its discretion."
In striking contrast with this are
the clauses in which Miss Lewis bene
fits in the following sections of tho
same will:
Ninth.—"l give and bequeath to Miss
Martha K. l.ewis, of the city of Pitts
burg, one-half of the residue of my
library wherever the same may be sit
uate at the appraised value thereof, |
she to have the right to select books to i
the amount of one-half. I also give I
and bequeath to the said Martha E.i
Lewis my Astoria States Racing trophy ]
and the box of silverware which Ire- '
cently purchased from Heren Eros.
& Co."
Tenth.—"l also give awl bequeath to
Miss Martha E. Lewis aforesaid, fust
mortgage bonds of the Pittsburg Brew
ing company to the aggregate par value
of $30,000, which 1 direct shall be de
livered to her by my executors within
SO days after my death; and if for any
reason the said bonds are not delivered
within the period aforesaid, I direct my
executors to pay to her on the first day
of the month following rny death the
sum of $125 and a like sum monthly
thereafter until said bonds are deliv
ered to her."
The library from which Miss Lewis
was empowered by the will to select
one-half of the books is worth $50,000,
and one of the most complete libraries
in the city. The Astoria racing plate,
which also went to Miss Lewis, was
of gold, valued at SIO,OOO. It waa
won by Sue Smith.
Received Many Presents.
By the will Miss Lewis got in nil
SfSO,OGO. This was only a small por
tion of her benefits. When she was
23 —her last birthday—Mr. Brown
handed the delighted girl $20,000 in
new hills. Only a few months before
he had given her a beautiful big house
on Greenfield avenue, worth $20,000.
This Is where the bride will live when
she returns from her honeymoon. She
got $20,000 worth of diamonds, too,
and in all $125,000 in cash, say Mrs.
Brown's friends, before the old man's
death.
The Browns have taken the daugh
ter-in-law to their hearts. She is
again mistress of the old Brown man
sion, there to stay as long as she
pleases. W. Harry Brown, the broth
er, even wealthier than S. S. Brown,
who inherits the hulk of the estate,
is understood to he against Miss
Lewis' claim.
There was a tragic scene when the
will was read. Mrs. Elizabeth Wil
lard, sister of the dead man, knew
nothing of it. When she heard it
gavo the young widow but $:io,000 in
beer bonds she burst out weeping and
ran from the room crying: "Oh, Sam
uel, how could you have done this
thing?"
A si range feature of this Strang case
Is that the millionaire provided bet
ter for the young widow after her
death than during her life. A niche
by his direction has been reserved for
her In the rich marble mausoleum out
at the cemetery. There she will re.it
with the others of the family's dead.
And whither an old mart's fl< kle
fancy chaiigi'l at the last or a design
ing girl succeeded In a plot to secure
wiallh at the expense of leputation
and standing In society, Is the quvs
lion
I'rohably It wilt be aa*wertd lu th*
courts.
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There can lie no more terrible ordeal
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than to be obliged to answer certain
questions in regard to her private iPs,
even when those questions are asked
by her family physician, and many
continue to suffer rather than submit
to examinations which so many physi
cians propose in order to intelligently
I treat the disease; and this Is the rea
son why so many physicians fail to
cure female disease.
This is also the reason why thousands
upon thousands of women are corre
sponding with Mrs Pinkliam, daughter
in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham, at Lynn,
Mass. To her they can confide every
detail of their illness, and from her
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of experience in treating female ill;?,
I Mrs. Pinltham can advise sick women
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Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
" I can truly say thnt yon have saved my
life, and I cannot express my gratitude in
words. Before I wrote to you telling you
how I felt, I had doctored for over two yeans
steady, ami spent lots of money in medicines
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PERSONAL FARTICULAHS.
George R. Patterson, the Pennsyiva
nian, who died recently, was the only
! "traveling man"in congress. Mr. Pat
terson was proud of the fact that he
! was a flour salesman, and had put It la
his official biography.
After a period oi 53 years spent lit
the service of the Jews' free school,
Bell lane, Spitalfields, England, L. B.
Abrahams, the head master, will
shortly retire. He is G7 years old. Is
rael Zangwill was one of his pupils.
The Jews' free school is said to be the
largest elementary school in the world.
: Jiaving 3,500 pupils.
; There is nothing doubtful about the
: record of the descent from revolution
ary stock of Mrs. Annie Knight Greg
; ory of Selingsgrove, Pa. She is the
j daughter and thirteenth child of Rich
ard Knight, who was a drummer boj
j 4 n the continental army. Mrs. Greg
; ory was the daughter of his third wife
and was bcrn when he was 83 years
J old.
One can hardly imagine that digni
fied and zealous temperance advocate,
Lady Henry Somerset, as a practical
j Joker, and yet it is a fact that she ?.nd
j her cousin, Lady Dudley, once dressed
| up as a pair of French tourists and ir.
| this guise and hoavily veiled visited
I her place at Eastnor castle and went
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I not sufficiently impressed by the beau
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j her housekeeper confided to her that
] "that duches3 de Montmorenci" —the
j name which Lady Henry had given
herself—"was a disagreeable creature."
Her Legal Status.
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| Baby Ethel —Only half the time.
; You see the court decided that papa
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