Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1906 — MARSHALL FIELD’S WILL. [ARTICLE]

MARSHALL FIELD’S WILL.

Document Dispone* of Estate Reckoned nt Oicr $100,000,000. Marshall Field's last will and testament, embracing ‘two codicils and disposing of an estate reckoned ns beyond the value of $100,000,000, was filed for probate in Chicago Wednesday. The doeurneqt, which contains upward of 22,000 words, was attested in Chicago and bears date of Ls‘b. 25. 1904. After making specific bequests of $25,298,000, the testator provides that the residue of the estate go to his grandchildreu, Marshall Field 111. and Henry Field, 12 nnd TO years old, respectively. They nre the children of the late Marshall Field, Jr. To the widow,is left the Field residence, and contents. worth upward of $2,000,000, and $1 ,000,000 in addition. In this connection it is said that Mr. Field made a large nfarriage settlement. The daughter, Mrs. Ethel Field Beatty of England, is to receive the benefit of a trust fund of $0.01)0,000 and n life Interest in $1,000,000 was set apart for the widow of Marshall Field 11. Gwendolyn Field, the granddaughter, now 3 year* old, has $1,000,000 left in trust for her. The Field Museum of Natural History will get $8,000,000 aqd four local charities are left $25,000 each. . Scattering millions are left to relative*, old employes und to a few friends. I The great magnitude of the inheritance which falls to the grandsons of Mr. Field may be noted from the lact that young Marshall Field is to receive three-fifths and Henry Field two-fifths of the residue of the estate, and in addition the benefit of n tmet fund of $5,000,000. Thu* they practically now are worth anywhere from $35,000,000 to $50,000,000 each.