Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Alma Record May 6, 1908 PAYS TO KEEP BUSY EDGAR DUNHAM, of Marquette, a young man of 20 years, who has been out of employment for some time and has a widowed mother to support, accepted a place as errand boy at $4 a week rather than remain idle. The outlook was rather blue, but a few days after he entered upon his duties at wages that barely prevented starva- tion, he received notice from an at- torney at Ludington that he and his sister, aged 17, are the sole heirs of the estate of their late grandfather, EDGAR C. DUNHAM, who had just died at the age of 89. The communication estimates that the value of the prop- erty is $200,000, of which some $40,- 000 is in cash and the bulk of the remainder is represented by 720 acres of improved lands. DUNHAM has gone to Ludington to assume inheri- tance. He had known of his grand- father in Ludington as a man in comfortable circumstances but his wealth and the way it was disposed of were a surprise. From an errand boy at $4 a week to an independent fortune is a great change for a young man, and a little experience in poverty may be an advantage to him in proseperity. ==========================================================================