Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1910 — HARRIMAN LEFT $71,000,000. [ARTICLE]

HARRIMAN LEFT $71,000,000.

New York State Receives $675,000 Under Inheritance Tax Law. New York, July 25.-—Edward H. Harriman was worth $71,000,000,’af fUflirittrof his death. The records of the state controller’s office, into which inheritance taxes are paid, show that Charles A. Peabody, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, who has acted as Mrs. Harriman’s adviser since her husband’s death, paid, on March 5 last, $675,000, the amount to wlpch the state is entitled under the transfer tax law. A little arithmetic shows to those familiar with the law that the estate on which this tax was paid was valued at $71,053,737.