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rana New Pioneer
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Carol Adventure Seeker
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| Subject: Re: The Wilder's legacy Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:52 pm | |
| That's interesting Rana. This is the first time I hear about the $500-legacy | |
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rana New Pioneer
Number of posts : 119 Location : Germany
| Subject: Re: The Wilder's legacy Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:33 pm | |
| The girl said, she read it in "Laura Ingalls Wilder- a Biography" by W. Anderson. The page is 171. Perhaps somebody, who has the book handy could have a look on this page and perhaps tell or quote what is written about these $500? Not that it was important, but this detail somehow drives me crazy and I don't want to buy the whole book only for this single page...
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JW Isaiah Edwards
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| Subject: Re: The Wilder's legacy Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:34 pm | |
| - Carol wrote:
- That's interesting Rana. This is the first time I hear about the $500-legacy
Same Here | |
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Carol Adventure Seeker
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| Subject: Re: The Wilder's legacy Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:03 pm | |
| - rana wrote:
- Perhaps somebody, who has the book handy could have a look on this page and perhaps tell or quote what is written about these $500?
Marilyn? | |
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LIWnut Proverbs 3:5-6
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| Subject: Re: The Wilder's legacy Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:44 pm | |
| The inheiritance is mentioned in Anderson's book. I looked in the other biography that I have by Donald Zochert but couldn't find mentioned. This is what Anderson says, on p 171. Laura and Manly spent more than a decade working and living in town. They weathered the financial Panic of 1907, and they inheirited $500 from Manly's parents. Then they decided to sell their town house and finish the partially completed home on Rocky Ridge Farm. That's all it says | |
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rana New Pioneer
Number of posts : 119 Location : Germany
| Subject: Re: The Wilder's legacy Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:00 pm | |
| Thank you sooo much, Marilyn! :Gjob: But isn't it odd that Anderson tells two versions (one in the LIW-biography and one in the Wilders-booklet) of what seems to be the same story? | |
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rana New Pioneer
Number of posts : 119 Location : Germany
| Subject: Re: The Wilder's legacy Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:05 pm | |
| I just finished the booklet "A Wilder in the West", a biography on Eliza Jane Wilder by William Anderson. And again a $ 500 inheritance is mentioned: - Quote :
- Though Mother Wilder did not die until 1905, E.J. [i.e. Eliza Jane], as administrator of James Wilder's estate, had distributed $ 500 inheritances to each of her brothers at the end of 1903
Before that it was said, that she got $ 500 as well. I wonder if these were the same $500, Anderson told about in his LIW-biography, or if actually there were two inheritances of $ 500 - one in 1903 and another one 1907 or later. The part from Anderson's LIW-biography sounds as if Almanzo got $ 500 after the financial panic of 1907, but perhaps this is just a misunderstanding... :think: | |
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