Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1920 — 9 SHARE BIG ESTATE [ARTICLE]

9 SHARE BIG ESTATE

RELATIONS OF OIL MAN GET PART OF $2,500,000. Cousins to Be Allotted Portion of Property Left by Indiana Operator None Knew. Chicago, Feb. 27. —Nine of ten persons claiming to be first cousins of the late William P. Cowan, who died intestate at Wheaton a year and a half ago, established relationship with the former Indiana Standard Oil millionaire before Judge S. L. Rathje of the Dupage county court at Wheaton, and today their attorneys and all parties concerned are “counting their fortunes.” The court indicated that five of the nine are legal heirs, anti these five agree that the other four are entitled to equities in the estate, variously estimated as being worth from $1,500,000 to $2,500,000. David Henry Cowan of Canal Winchester, Ohio, the only one of tlie claimants bearing the Cowan name, has not yet established heirship, and Judge Rathje continued his case until next Monday at 9:30 o’clock to give Attorney Charles S. Cutting a chance to present more evidence for his client. The five whose claims to heirship were most clearly established yesterday are: William Saxtoh of Eagle, Mich.; Walter Saxton and Mrs. Caroline Saxton Hart of Grand Ledge, Mich.; Charles Edward Saxton of Bannister, Mich., and Mrs. Birdella A. Saxton Colby of Cadillac, Mich. The four others who are admitted by the Saxton quintet to be relatives of William P. Cowan are: Henry B. Stillwell of Gloversvllle, N. Y.; William S. Stillwell of Springfield, Mass.; Judson Phelps of Detroit, Mich., and three heirs of Mrs. Helen Shadboldt of Plymouth, Wis.