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McCann, Helena Woolworth

American, died 1938

Woolworth, Helena; McCann, Charles E.F. Mrs.

Biography

Helena was the oldest of the three daughters of five-and-dime store magnate Frank. W. Woolworth (d. 1919). At the death of her mother in 1924, Helena and her sister, Mrs. James Donahue, shared with their niece, Barbara Hutton (daughter of the third Woolworth daughter Edna Woolworth Hutton), an estate appraised at over $78 million. In 1904 Helena had married Charles Edward Francis McCann, a New York lawyer who subsequently was president of the Broadway-Park Place Company, one time owner of the Woolworth building in New York. McCann served as attorney for his father-in-law's estate and as Corporation Counsel for Poughkeepsie. The McCanns had three children: Frasier Winfield McCann, Constance Woolworth McCann Betts (Mrs. Wyllys Betts), and Helena Woolworth McCann Guest (Mrs. Winston Guest). In 1935, Mrs. McCann made large monetary gifts to her children, speculated in the press to amount to about $15 million. Helena died in New York in 1938; Charles McCann died in Palm Beach, FL, in 1941.

Bibliography

1938
New York Times. 16 March 1938: 23 [obituary]
1941
New York Times. 1 February 1941: 17 [obituary of Charles McCann]

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