IRVING FISKE HAD NO NET WORTH!
Some "Celebrity" sites claim that Irving had between $100,000 and $14 MILLION when he died.
He did not own anything. He never owned the land at Quarry Hill, which first belonged to my mother, Barbara Hall Fiske, and then to a family corporation, Lyman Hall, Inc.
He had benefits from the government (social security, etc) and managed on almost nothing-- he had learned to do so during the Great Depression and preferred it.
He grew up in a very conventional, well-off family who worked and made a lot of money. Irving did not enjoy this life and became a Boheman in the Village during the 1930s.
He wrote freelance articles and worked for the WPA, writing and editing the WPA Guide to New York City, as it is now called.
Irv shopped at thrift stores and wore very simple clothing. He had cloth shoes because he was a vegetarian verging on veganism.
He did observe the stock market and would sometimes invest small sums in commodities trading. This was fun for him, as his father had also been an "armchair investor," but it NEVER made him any dough.
He liked things to be simple.
He was NOT wealthy when he died.
There appears to be no way to correct these places which claim huge sums of mone for Irv. I would not be sorry if they were right-- but they aren't.
Ladybelle
Some "Celebrity" sites claim that Irving had between $100,000 and $14 MILLION when he died.
He did not own anything. He never owned the land at Quarry Hill, which first belonged to my mother, Barbara Hall Fiske, and then to a family corporation, Lyman Hall, Inc.
He had benefits from the government (social security, etc) and managed on almost nothing-- he had learned to do so during the Great Depression and preferred it.
He grew up in a very conventional, well-off family who worked and made a lot of money. Irving did not enjoy this life and became a Boheman in the Village during the 1930s.
He wrote freelance articles and worked for the WPA, writing and editing the WPA Guide to New York City, as it is now called.
Irv shopped at thrift stores and wore very simple clothing. He had cloth shoes because he was a vegetarian verging on veganism.
He did observe the stock market and would sometimes invest small sums in commodities trading. This was fun for him, as his father had also been an "armchair investor," but it NEVER made him any dough.
He liked things to be simple.
He was NOT wealthy when he died.
There appears to be no way to correct these places which claim huge sums of mone for Irv. I would not be sorry if they were right-- but they aren't.
Ladybelle
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