Mother Seeks $10,000/Year for Boy of 12

Chicago, 1920
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ASKS $10,000 A YEAR FOR BOY OF 12

Mother Says He Can't Live on $350 a Month

Owing to the mounting price of knickerbockers and school books, ice cream cones and footballs -- not to mention countless other things dear to boyish hearts -- $10,000 a year is necessary to educate and support Henry Irving Wheeler, 12 years old, son of the late Professor Henry Lord Wheeler of Yale University, according to a bill filed in the Superior Court.

The bill was filed by Mrs. Eva S. Lind, Henry's mother, against the Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago, trustee of a $400,000 fund left for the boy by his father.

Mrs. Lind, who was Eva Swartout, an actress, was divorced from Professor Wheeler in 1906. She was awarded $100,000 alimony. Later she married a New York physician. She received nothing under the terms of the will.

According to the bill, the boy was allowed $150 and then $350 a month after his father's death, but Mrs. Lind has been forced to give $15,000 toward his support.

Professor Wheeler was a members of an old Chicago family, his father having been a pioneer traction magnate. His will directs that the boy be supported and educated "in accord with his birth and station in life."

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, May 22, 1920, page 1.