Inventory of Roland Mather’s Estate filed in Probate Court

05/20/1897 |

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Atwood Collins and Daniel R. Howe filed their inventory of Roland Mather’s estate in probate court in Hartford today.

The estate was valued at $1,856,590, and it included stocks, bonds, two houses, furniture, and cash in the bank.
Of the 44 companies in which Mather owned stock, 25 were railroad companies; 7 were manufacturers, 5 were insurance companies, 4 were telegraph companies, and 1 was a bank. The five insurance companies were all local: Aetna, Connecticut Fire, Hartford Fire, Hartford Steam Boiler, and Phoenix.
The houses Mather owned were 10 Myrtle Street, which is no longer extant (it would be part of Liam McGee Park today), and the other was 95 Elm Street. That one is still there.
His estate had $19,663 deposited in Hartford National Bank, which would be $637,733 today.

The Courant reported that Mather’s will was admitted to probate on May 14, 1897.

Julia Turner would purchase the clock for the steeple at Asylum Hill Congregational Church in honor of her father on June 24, 1897.

“It foots up $1,856,590. It is believed to be the largest inventory ever filed in the probate court in this city.”

In 2020, Mather’s estate would have been the equivalent of $57,892,427.98.

Unattributed, “Roland Mather’s Estate,” Hartford Courant, May 21, 1897, page 4.

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