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Show ilRPNT QUARK IB I dililLd Great Granddaughter of Late James G. Blaine is Heir lo Vast Fortune (By Jntcrn.itlonul Xcws Service.) CHICAGO Add to the list o ihe country's "baby millionairesses," or :it least near millionairesses, little Miss Anno Blaine of Chicago, aged owe year and not quite four months. The great-granddaughter or Jii:nes G. B.lalne, Republican politica1 leader of the 'SOs, who came near bein? president of the United States at one time, the baby heires3 is of almost equally distinguished ancestry on r..-other r..-other side of the family, being aUo a great-sranddaughter of Cyrus H. McCormick and the granddaughter or Mrs. Emmons Blaine. Recently in the probate court nero it was discovered that the little misu Is heir to a half share of tho estate of her late father, Emmons Blaine, Jr., the baby's share amounting, it is estimated, es-timated, to more than 5600,000. The petition nlcd tor a probating of the will will be heard In tho near fu- In the petition the baby's share of the estate Is said to consist chiofly of real estate of a former value of $.100.-000. $.100.-000. It is estimated, however, that the value of tho estate has more than doubled since. I The little lady, who answers to th I name of Anne Blaine, is the only ohl.d of a love match which resulted hi a marriage which came as a surprise to Chicago society when, on October 0, 191", in Portsmouth, Is". H., Emmons Blaine. Jr., then a young engineer just entering upon the practice of hs profession, was quietly married to Eleanor Gooding by tho bride's father, fa-ther, tho Rev. Alfred Gooding. One year later, to a day, the young father died, a victim of pneumonia. Babo Anne was born In the Hcnro-tln Hcnro-tln hospital In Chicago some weeks after hor father's doath. She was an "Incubator baby," and It was found that she must live under glass in a carefully regulated temperature. F or weeks attendants watched her day and night to guard tho flame of life. An entire floor of the hospital, which had been rented by the family, was turned into a nursery for the diminutive heiress a3 she grew oider and stronger. When at last sho had acquired sufficient strength to permit of hor being taken homo eho was removed re-moved with the greatest precautions lo the big, luxuriously furnished Blaine mansion hero. Now Baby Anne Is ablo to go cat for an airing with her nurse every day, and she Is Btlll watched and tended with the utmost care. |