Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-03-17 | Page 12 | Shrewd Woman Makes Fortune

I SHREWD WOMAN MAKESFORTUNE Great Wealth Revealed to Friends as Safety Box Is Opened ' NEW FORK March 17. More evidence evi-dence iiuvi Mre. Barah l Wyckoff Krnt. who died a few months mro In her hmc in the Rronz. well ':irnel her title of "the sjhrewdesl woman operator op-erator tn Wall street" was unearthed today. Temporary administrators of her i ite, Rolnp to one of several safe de-Pi de-Pi it boxe rented by her. discovered m ne than a million dollars worth of lewels and securities which no one knew about. The discovery plus a statement from the hanking house of .1. r. Morgan and Company through Which she traded, that she had left an (82,000 cash deposit th'ie, lead the administrators to estimate her entire fortune :.t more than $3,500,000. Of thi sum her second husband, Thomas C. Bent, will receive $1,500.-noo $1,500.-noo while othei relative will get the rest. Her will will he offered for probate pro-bate nc:ct week Although she was credited with being be-ing wealthy even Iter most intimate (rlends did not know the amounl she had built up during hoi years on the street. The late .1. IV Morgan was quoted as having termed her the cleverest clev-erest woman on the market and this reputation led many of hei younger friends to come to her for tips. During the panic of 1507. when steel dropped almost out of sight Mrs. Bent bought heavily and made half a million dollars. dol-lars. oo