Gloria Foy - Inheritance

Inheritance

At the age of twenty-two Foy inherited a fortune estimated to be in excess of $1,500,000, in November 1923. The money came from the will of an uncle, Richard Foy. He was a wealthy coffee planter in Rio de Janeiro. She obtained access to one third of this amount immediately. According to its terms, the inheritance specified that she would be entitled to another third, providing that she married within three years time. The final instalment would come to Foy if she lived with her husband for ten years. By the end of December she had received more than 5,000 proposals from suitors worldwide. One of her first purchases after the bequest was a 1924 Buick Brougham Sedan.

Foy had some definite ideas concerning marriage. Some of these angered members of the Lucy Stone League, as well as women in general. She was quoted as saying that marriage should be journey's end to modern couples like it was to their grandparents. She believed that many women did not feel deeply enough about marriage. To them it was like buying a new frock or obtaining a new job.