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Page entitled : Marshall Field III sole heir

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How Marshall Field III prevailed in the litigation about his brother's share in the Field Estate, settled in New York, building Caumsett and became an investment banker.


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Henceforth Marshall Field III was the undisputed only heir of the great Field Estate, although he would come in possession of the many millions it comprised only in 1943, upon his fiftieth birthday. Yet as a trustee he already had a great influence on the estate during the 1920s and even more so after Chauncey Keep’s death in 1929. By that time the aggregate fortune of Marshall Field III, including the undistributed income and principal of the Field Estate was  ...

 

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