POOR NEWPORT MAN POOR NO LONGER; INHERITS 12 MILLION DOLLAR FRENCH ESTATE
Newport, Rhode Island (JFK+50) On February 7, 1922, the Evening Star reports that one George S. Ohenri, who has been living in "seeming poverty" here in Newport*, is the heir to an estate valued at 12 million dollars.
The news of this inheritance came in the form of a message sent to Judge Robert M. Franklin from a New York law firm declaring Mr. Ohenri to be the direct descendant of an aristocratic French family with ownership of land and diamond mines in South Africa.
The lucky heir says that he "is a lecturer" and has been living in Newport for the past two years.
*Newport, Rhode Island, located on Aquidneck Island, is home to America's Cup & Bellevue Avenue lined with Gilded Age mansions. JFK & Jackie were married here.
SOURCE
"Heir to $12,000,000, Frenchman Lives in Poverty at Newport," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., February 7, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
