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Download this free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).

• Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. His family was descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical genius of Sweden's 17th century era as a great power in northern Europe.
• Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
• In 1895, Nobel signed his last will providing for the establishment of the Nobel Prize. He died in San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896.

Download this free copy of the Will of New York billionaire Harry Helmsley (1909-1997).

• Helmsley was one of the most successful real estate magnates in America.
• In his will, Harry Helmsley leaves an estate estimated at $1.7 billion. A few of his vast holdings included the Empire State Building, and posh hotels in New York.
• Helmsley died of pneumonia in 1997 at a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was survived by his wife Leona, who was known as the 'Queen of Mean'.

Download a copy of the Last Will of J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), one of the wealthiest men in the world at the turn of the 20th century.

• John Pierpont Morgan was an American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. He entered the field of banking at the age of 20.
• Morgan made money on the American Civil War by selling rifles to US forces. During the Panic of 1893, Morgan's syndicate kept the US Treasury afloat with $65 million in gold.
• From 1890 to 1913, 42 major corporations were organized or had their securities underwritten by J. P. Morgan and Company.
• Morgan had a knack for taking over troubled businesses, reorganizing them and returning them to profitability. But he wasn't always successful in his ventures. He was one of the principal owners of the White Star Line, which owned the RMS Titanic. The ship's sinking was a financial disaster for White Star and its owners.

Source: Wikipedia.org

Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (1960-1999).

John Kenedy Jr. was an American publisher and public figure, son of assassinated US President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline. John was a member of an American family that, to many people, represented the closest thing America had to royalty and as such, he spent his entire life in the public eye.

John Jr. grew up into a handsome and athletic man. He was dubbed People magazine's 'Sexiest Man Alive' in 1988, and was the only person so named who was not a working actor. Kennedy served as a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney's office for four years. In 1995 he founded George Magazine, a glossy politics-as-lifestyle monthly which sometimes took editorial aim even at members of his own family.

Kennedy was killed in 1999 along with his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren when his Piper Saratoga aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vineyard.

Biographical information obtained from Wikipedia.com.

Download this free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Leona Helmsley (1920-2007).

• Leona, often called the 'Queen of Mean', knew the meaning of upward mobility. She was the daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants who married well - several times. She also worked her way up to the level of vice-president in a New York real estate brokerage firm.
• In 1968 she met multi-millionaire entrepreneur Harry Helmsley and in 1970 she joined one of his brokerages. In 1972 Harry divorced his wife and married Leona, and she set about running his expanding hotel empire.
• Leona faced legal problems throughout her professional life, ultimately being convicted of income tax evasion in 1989 for which she served 18 months in prison. She was quoted as having said, "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
• In her Will, she left a $12 million trust fund to her Maltese dog. This was later reduced by the Courts to $2 million.

Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Lizzie Andrew Borden (1860-1927).

• A native of Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden was suspected of murdering her father and stepmother.
• Her trial was one of the most sensational in US history, due in large part to the fact that the person charged with the crime was a respectable church-going spinster who taught Sunday school.
• After Lizzie was found not guilty by a jury of locals in spite of a wealth of circumstantial evidence against her, she was socially ostracized by the community. She never married and lived a reclusive life until her death.

Download this free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895).

• T. H. Huxley was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy.
• He was also an educator and an advocate of agnosticism. In fact, he coined the term.
• Huxley's very public support of Charles Darwin's evolutionary naturalism earned him the nickname "Darwin's bulldog".