Monday, Feb. 08, 1932
Married. Linda Watkins, 23, stage and film actress; and Gabriel Lorie Hess, 51, attorney for Will H. Hayes and Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America Inc.; in Chicago.
Divorced & Remarried. Mrs. Edith Gould Wainwright, 30, daughter of the late George Jay Gould; from Carroll Livingston Wainwright, 33, Manhattan socialite who was committed by his brothers to Bloomingdale Hospital last year, was later adjudged to be "mentally competent"; in Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty. Mrs. Wainwright immediately married Sir Hector Murray Macneal, 53, Scottish shipowner.
Left By the late William Wrigley Jr., an estate of "at least $22,500,000"; to his widow Mrs. Ada E. Wrigley, his son Philip K., his daughter Mrs. Dorothy Wrigley Offield. In addition Philip Wrigley receives the Chicago Cubs baseball club. Not included in this accounting, largest ever filed in Illinois, are homes and properties in Arizona and California, including Catalina Island for which he once refused $19,000,000.
Birthdays. Dr. Francis Landey Patton, Princeton's onetime president and "Grand Old Man" (89); Wilhelm Hohenzollern (73) ; Vice President Charles Curtis (72) ; Walter Johannes Damrosch (70); Baritone Antonio Scotti (65); Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt (50).
Died. Harvey Joshua Hill, 51, famed campaign director for the Red Cross; of heart disease; in White Plains, N. Y. He worked with Ivy Ledbetter Lee to raise $123,000,000 and $117,000,000 for Red Cross War funds; with Bruce Barton. Dr. John Raleigh Mott and the late Cardinal Gibbons on a drive for $212,000,000 for the United War Work Appeal.
Died. Alfred S. Austrian, 61, Chicago lawyer; of a gastric ailment; in Chicago. Learned, eloquent, he had successfully represented Armour & Co. in defense of its acquisition of Morris & Co. which the U. S. Government contended was a violation of the Clayton Anti-trust Act. Among his other clients were Lumberman James Stanley Joyce (divorced by Peggy); the late William Wrigley Jr.'; Erlanger theatre interests; White Sox baseball club; the Chicago Tribune.
Died. Lewis Cass Ledyard, 80, famed corporation lawyer, president since 1917 of the New York Public Library; of myocarditis; in Manhattan. Good friend to the elder John Pierpont Morgan and Payne Whitney, he executed their estates. As trustee of the fund created by Samuel Jones Tilden, he helped merge the Astor and Lenox Libraries into the New York Public Library. Lawyer Ledyard, like his partners James Coolidge Carter and John George Milburn, was a onetime president of the New York Bar Association. For 30 years he was counsel to the New York Stock Exchange. In an age of business dinosaurs he unscrambled the old American Tobacco Co. upon its dissolution as a trust.
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