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Shradys became aware of Jacob A’s unresolved marriage to Mary Brown. They allied with Mary providing her with support so that she would deny Jacob A a legal divorce and prevent him from having legitimate heirs. Control of the estate was transferred to an independent trustee and Jacob A was restricted to an allowance to preserve the principal until his death. Jacob A prevailed, at least partially, by living on for another 50 years continuing to receive income from the properties while they were left unimproved remaining like time capsules for 100 years. Jacob A was 91 when he finally died in 1906 and had outlasted a generation of the Shradys. When Mary Brown died in 1899, he finally was able to legally marry his common law wife Mary Jane Rockefeller (Rockefellow) thereby granting some legitimate status to their 11 children. The ceremony was performed by the Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court. (She was a third cousin of John D.) Furthermore, his attorneys pushed through a state law making children legitimate if subsequent to their birth, the parents become legally married. However, the law did not clearly apply to children already born at the time the law was passed. Consequently, the Appley children from Mary Jane Rockefeller were compelled to give up two thirds of the estate to their distant cousins. Appley’s children from other women were excluded from any inheritance.
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themselves were wealthy and successful. The founder of the estate was Jacob Appley, the son of a German immigrant. He started out as a butcher working at a stall in the Oswego Market on
Broadway. But his fortunes were greatly elevated by a windfall from a shrewd investment in the mutton market which he made in the early 1800s. He expanded his fortune by investing in properties around the Lower East Side on Eldridge, Delancey, Forsyth, Bayard, and First Streets. When he died in 1840, he left the estate, which included about 40 houses, in trust to his only son, Jacob Alexander Appley (Jacob A). The trust document, one of the earliest of its kind, provided Jacob A with the income from the estate for life and saved the properties to be distributed to Jacob A's issue (children) after his death. In case no issue existed, the trust named Jacob's sister, Barbara (Shrady), and her heirs, as the beneficiaries. As one of Barbara's grandsons, Dr. George Frederick Shrady was a potential beneficiary.
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during the latter's last illness that Dr. Shrady first sprang into national fame. While Grant, the public idol, lay ill, an entire nation hung on the words of Dr. Shrady. His skill went far toward alleviating Grant's sufferings at the close of his illness. Afterward, when
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elevation of the profession and the benefit of mankind. In recognition of his distinguished accomplishments and services the degree of master of arts was conferred on him by
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