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On a recent weekend, sisters Kingsley and Elizabeth Woolworth — the youngest members of this branch of the five-and-dime family — returned to the farm with friends for another round of...
Jimmy Donahue inherited a portion of the Woolworth estate with Barbara and also grew up to have notorious, and public, drug, alcohol and relationship problems. In 1924, Barbara Hutton's grandmother Jennie (Creighton) Woolworth died and bequeathed to her $26.1 million (~$368 million in 2023).
Woolworth’s retail chain heiress Barbara Hutton blew a fortune equivalent to $898 million today, and shamed the Woolworth name in ways that would make the Kardashians and Hiltons blush.
Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes" (5- and 10-cent stores or dime stores) which featured a selection of low-priced merchandise.
Short biographies of members of Frank Woolworth's family, including his wife Jennie Creighton, Granddaughter Barbara Hutton and Great Grandson Lance Hutton.
The surviving Woolworth houses in Glen Cove and Manhattan exist today in different states of grace; some are single-family homes, and one has been chopped into smaller co-ops.
His family blew it all. It has taken the Woolworth company more than 100 years to reach its nemesis. But it took Frank Woolworth's family a fraction of that time to ruin itself.
With a profile of five-and-dime heiress Kingsley Woolworth, 26, who divides her time between Maine and Manhattan. Her father, Robert Frederick Woolworth, a retired art dealer, once represented Maine artists Andrew and Jamie Wyeth.
However, today, we know the death of Barbara Hutton’s mother, Edna Woolworth Hutton, was very tragic; especially for young Hutton. Edna, who was married to Hutton’s father, Franklin Laws Hutton, suddenly passed away when Hutton was only four years old. The tragedy occurred on May 2, 1917.
In today's episode we are looking into the life of Barbara Woolworth Hutton, an heiress to the Woolworth family fortune. She had ...