Guardian for Wilkins
Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Allegheny County
No. 243 October Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 318 June Term 1887, O. C. On February 13, 1891, Mary Ann Wilkins, E. J. Wilkins and Miriam Hays presented their petition to the court below for the appointment of a guardian of the persons of Joseph W., Mary J., Henry W., and Francis J. Wilkins, minor children of Joseph W. Wilkins, late of Waukesha county, Wisconsin, deceased, under the age of fourteen years.
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No. 243 October Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 318 June Term 1887, O. C. On February 13, 1891, Mary Ann Wilkins, E. J. Wilkins and Miriam Hays presented their petition to the court below for the appointment of a guardian of the persons of Joseph W., Mary J., Henry W., and Francis J. Wilkins, minor children of Joseph W. Wilkins, late of Waukesha county, Wisconsin, deceased, under the age of fourteen years. The petition averred that said minors had no guardian of their persons within this commonwealth; that they had real estate to the annual value of three hundred dollars, and some…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
The appellant was appointed guardian of the estates of the minor children of Joseph W. Wilkins, deceased, by the court of Waukesha county, in the state of Wisconsin, where their father resided at the time of his death. Henry W. Kendall was, by the same court, appointed guardian of their persons. The bulk of the estate of the minors is in the county of Allegheny, in this state, and their nearest relatives reside there. Their estate in Allegheny county was derived from their paternal grandfáther, Joseph Wilkins, who died in 1888, leaving a large estate, a portion of which passed to…
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