Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — The Largest American Land Holder. [ARTICLE]

The Largest American Land Holder.

Philadelphia News. Wilson Wqddingham, the largest land holder in the United States and estimated to be worth $4,000,000, has for his summer residence a fine house with spacious grounds at Savin Rock, just outside the city line. His house is the ” finest dwelling in the State and cost over $500,000. It is occupied by his family and was eight years in constructing. Mr. Waddingham made hiß money in the cattle-raising business and spends most of his time in vising his large ranches, one of which he 'recently purchased in New Mexico, consisting of 15,500 acres. He is believed to own over two million acres of grazing, lands. He has, also, large investments in profitable real estate in several Western cities. -