Word: gottlieb
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...York City real estate than any other one person?something in the vicinity of $60,000,000 worth ?a fortune founded in the fur business (and, says legend, in Captain Kidd's treasure; by the first John Jacob Astor (1763-1848). Another oldtime furrier was one John Gottlieb Wendel, who retired about the same time as John Jacob Astor and who, like Astor, put his money into Manhattan realty. Last week died Mrs. Rebecca Wendel Swope, next to last of seven grandchildren of John Wendel. Miss Ella Wendel, the surviving sister, remained sole owner of realty now worth something...
...over a decade ago, is the person whose fanaticism kept intact the $100,000,000 Wendel realty holdings, who turned all his sisters but one into eccentric old maids. The silent, grim old house on Fifth Avenue, lighted by gas and without a telephone, is a monument to John Gottlieb Wendel. He it was who dominated his six sisters, holding all the titles to the Wendel properties in his own name, forbidding them to marry lest the family property be split up. He looked on with approval as they made their own clothes and wore the round sailor hats popular...
When iron-willed John Gottlieb Wendel died, he left $80,000,000 in real estate, $10 in clothing. He also left a tradition as to how the property was to be managed. He and his sisters had long agreed that theatres or saloons should never be allowed on their properties. Electric signs were equally taboo. They established a record in Puritanism when they held up a $1,000,000 lease until they obtained guarantees that certain first-aid kits in the projected building would not contain more than one pint of whiskey. The main tradition handed on by Brother John...