[78-L] Man who lived modestly leaves millions .. & Edison machine

[Ron L'Herault]

Cylinder records.

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What exactly is a recording drum? Were Edison's different somehow from any
others? (whatever they are)

Joe Salerno

On 2/4/2015 6:36 PM, David Lennick wrote:
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> "Recording drums"...that's a new one!
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> dl
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> On 2/4/2015 4:53 PM, zimrec at juno.com wrote:
>>
>> This just in at msn.com: BRATTLEBORO, Vt.— A Vermont man who 
>> sometimes held his coat together with safety pins and had a long-time 
>> habit of foraging for firewood also had a hidden talent for picking 
>> stocks— a talent that became public after his death when he 
>> bequeathed $6 million to his local library and hospital.The 
>> investments made by Ronald Read, a former gas station employee and 
>> janitor who died last June at age 92, "grew substantially" over the 
>> years, said his attorney Laurie Rowell.Read, who was known for his 
>> flannel jacket and baseball cap, gave no hint of the size of his 
>> fortune."He was unbelievably frugal," Rowell said Wednesday. When 
>> Read visited her office, "sometimes he parked so far away so he 
>> wouldn't have to pay the meter."The bequest of $4.8 million to the 
>> Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and $1.2 million to the town's Brooks 
>> Memorial Library were the largest each institution has ever received. 
>> Read also made a number of smaller bequests."It's pret
> t
>>    y incredible. This is not something that happens on a regular 
>> basis," said the hospital's development director, Gina Pattison.In 
>> addition to cash, he had an antique Edison phonograph with dozens of 
>> recording drums that he left to the Dummerston Historical Society, 
>> Rowell said."It's really a beautiful machine," said Historical 
>> Society president Muriel Taylor.Read was born in Dummerston in 1921. 
>> He was the first in his family to graduate from high school, walking 
>> and hitchhiking about four miles each way from his home to the high 
>> school in Brattleboro. After military service during World War II, he 
>> returned to Brattleboro where he worked at a service station for 25 
>> years then worked for 17 years as a janitor at the local J.C. 
>> Penney.In 1960 he married a woman he met at the service station. She 
>> died in 1970.Stepson Phillip Brown, of Somersworth, New Hampshire, 
>> told the Brattleboro Reformer he visited Read every few months, more 
>> often as Read's health declined. The only ind
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>>    on Brown had of Read's investments was his regular reading of the Wall
Street Journal."I was tremendously surprised," Brown said of Read's hidden
wealth. "He was a hard worker, but I don't think anybody had an idea that he
was a multi-millionaire."
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