| Mrs. Ella Liggett
Wiggins, 80, of 17 Portland place, last surviving
daughter of the late John E. Liggett,
multimillionaire St. Louis tobacco manufacturer
and one of the founders of the Leggett &
Myers Tobacco Company died Saturday night at
Barnes Hospital after two days’ illness. Mrs. Wiggins was one of the
four original heirs to an estimated $6,000,000
estate left by her father when he died in 1897,
leaving a will which established a trust fund
with his three daughters as primary beneficiaries
together with a grandson, John E. Liggett, Jr.,
son of Hiram Liggett. The grandson received a
quarter of the estate in 1916. He died in
California in 1939.
Liggett’s
other two daughters, Mrs. Cora B. Fowler and Mrs.
Dolly L. Kilpatrick, each died within a few
months of each other in 1928.
The Liggett
estate, which has been in litigation for years,
consists in a large part of valuable realty
holdings in St. Louis. These included large
building sites on Washington avenue, Olive and
Chestnut streets and considerable property on
Skinker road. The Brown Shoe Company, Seventeenth
street and Washington avenue, and the Frisco
Building at Ninth and Olive streets are on
property included in the estate.
Mrs. Wiggins is
survived by her husband, Charles Wiggins,
president of the Liggett Realty Company and a
daughter, Mrs. Clarence Arnold, who resides in
California.
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