Harriet Howard and St. Patrick’s Day (1910)
In 1910 the luck of the Irish visited Brattleboro’s Harriet Howard. Twenty two years earlier she had moved to town with her husband. He was a dairy farmer and she was a seamstress. According to a local newspaper article, Harriet surprisingly received a letter from a Dublin, Ireland lawyer and was told she had inherited one million dollars from her dearly departed grandmother. Harriet was astonished. Her father had left Ireland and settled in Nova Scotia many years before her birth. She had never met her grandmother and was not aware that her grandparents had invested in Irish real estate. The Brattleboro Reformer published an article on the front page of the paper explaining Harriet’s good fortune. The article stated that Harriet would be traveling to Ireland to collect her unexpected inheritance later in the summer. Also on the front page of the March 18, 1910 paper was a report on the St. Patrick’s Day […]