{"id":2967,"date":"2026-02-25T02:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/money-scapes.wordpress.blogicmedia.com\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2026-02-25T02:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:07:19","slug":"has-anyone-ever-really-inherited-millions-of-dollars-from-an-unknown-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.money-scapes.com\/has-anyone-ever-really-inherited-millions-of-dollars-from-an-unknown-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Has anyone ever really inherited millions of dollars from an unknown person?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most people have dreamt of <strong>getting millions of dollars from their long lost relative<\/strong>, or some random person they met once in a bus, or from some business magnate who just wanted to share his money with people and spread happiness. There are some films where this has happened, like Melvin and Howard.&nbsp; Well, in real life, it seems like an implausible scenario. But it has happened enough times to give you hope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A real story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we\u2019ll tell you a little of a <strong>man who left millions to relatively unknown people<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a man named Archibald McArthur, who\nin his early 20\u2019s moved to the city of Dodgeville in Wisconsin. When he came to\nthe town, he had nothing except some clothes and a Lawrence college degree.\nDuring his early days in the city of Dodgeville, he worked sawing logs in return\nfor some food and bed for sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then spent the coming years, making a lot\nof money for himself and became a rich man. Lived life like a king and then all\nof a sudden, he liquidated his assets and took a pitiful man\u2019s look. He started\nliving in a small hut and was mostly found reading books and poetry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a few years of living like a poor older\nman, he left the city of Dodgeville to move to Florida. He died in Florida a\nfew years after moving there. His will included giving $15,000 ($216,000 in\ntoday\u2019s currency) to the son of Mrs. Jane Joyce, a woman whose family he had\nfriendly relations with when he was a young boy. He also left most of his\nempire, $300,000 ($4 million in today\u2019s currency) to a clerk named Geoge\nRafferty, whom he once met in a park in Florida. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the story of Archibald McArthur, and\nI\u2019m already dreaming of meeting someone like him! HAHA. Well, there\u2019s no harm\nin dreaming, most of us are already wishing if they get a chance to meet\nsomeone like Archibald McArthur. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people have dreamt of getting millions of dollars from their long lost relative, or some random person they met once in a bus, or from some business magnate who just wanted to share his money with people and spread happiness. There are some films where this has happened, like Melvin and Howard.&nbsp; Well, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.money-scapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.money-scapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.money-scapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.money-scapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.money-scapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.money-scapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/www.money-scapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.money-scapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.money-scapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.money-scapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.money-scapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}