People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — MILLIONS AWAIT GIBBS HEIRS. [ARTICLE]

MILLIONS AWAIT GIBBS HEIRS.

Gash and Manor in England Left to the Family of That Name. Springfield, 0., Feb. 26.—John M. Gibbs, who died here Tuesday evening, received a letter a few days before his death from Montgomery E. Gibbs, of Chicago, regarding the alleged fortune coming to the Gibbs family in England. It includes the manor of Instone, near Biddeford, Devonshire, valued at 55,000,000 and also money in the Bank of England. As far .as known there are 250 of the family in this country, Mrs. Prof, A. E. Taylor, Mrs. A. D. Ross, Mrs. J. H. Martin, and John M. Gibbs living in this city,