Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-11-26 | Page 1 | David Hill Not Rich

OAVIDHILL - i Great Lawyer and Democrat Left a Small Estate Chicago, Nov. 27 A dispatch from New York says: ' Since the death of former United, States Senator David B 1 1 til. many estimates or conjectures of the ag crogaio value of his estate have beeu made. Mr. Hill was a man of such ' secretive methods, so taciturn with respect re-spect to his personal affairs, that ther never was a hint in anything he said which would convey any Idea of his professional carnlnps. i But 'he common impress. on was ' that he had accumulated n large fortune, for-tune, that accumulation beginning immediately im-mediately alter his retirement from the United States senate when he devoted de-voted himself to the practice of law. Many times the question has been asked of lawyers, what, lr. their opinion opin-ion . his estate would amount to in money alue. No estimate was lower than $10.000 not Including the bf-auti-ful home named Wolfert's Roost. Some of the estimates have fixed the gross value of the estate as hih as $500,iMiO. Every one or these estimates was an error. The intimate friends who hae been permitted to see thn figures that tell of the Immediate estimate esti-mate of his wealth, have learned that-his that-his personal e9tate is nit in excess of 23,00u and may be less than thau What Wolferts Roost will fetch at executors ex-ecutors tale, no tme can tell. Not until un-til the death of Mr. Hill bus it been known to any, except two or three of his friends, that he paid only $211.-Un $211.-Un for this property, but the present estimate is that the entire etate, personal per-sonal nnd real will not yield more thau ir.O.Mon.