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addBuchanan EstateNDream Abandoned lt;*•ormmalt;h; By Houston Grocerin :W*iI*r| HOUSTON. July 18.- The dreams* of more th n I,'**.1 j i lt;on.lt; who had f[_alt; hoped to Inherit a fortune each frcm an estate supposed to be worth in excess of 1850.000,000 were y‘Ut leaat temporarily shattered to-ghs Titleo? day-hemTermmaUesKilerMs.L. D Buchanan. Houston grocer who for years has bean communi-j^^ eating with uescendants from the J\a: family of former President James I™ Buchanan, telling them the estate1 1exists and outlining his plans to reel urn it, said today he had ceased;all operations in connection withIlfI He announced several months I igo that he was about to Instituteiq. ourt action to claim the estateand that it would be converted33:tgePhiItin)moerplabaranlt;tinnotpiahiscajam) cai h and divided among some of t.OdO heirs he had traced downaa Fhe estate, he said, was composed Lhe 1 valuable property in eight states, cp tom* of it in the heart of large | cities. The properties, he said, wered by ths Buchanan family [’H the !iors than 100 years ago for 99 era year tc: ms and that it now was relief citing to the original owncis, asIng the leases had expired j((in Aftr'r an interview yesterday with aer poatal inspectors, Buchanan sign-1 j.a ely od a statement asking the pu*t of al- j fie* department to mark all hi* int. ftwil refused” and to announce lay that h« had ceased all operations Tns in connection with the supposed:bs tate. * Ii e±kDiesecin
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Big Spring Daily Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Sun, Jul 19, 1931
Page 9
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