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Modern Fortunes Under the Living-Persons Rule (L17·8)

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As of November 2026

The rule, stated at the head as required. For living people, this section prints company roles, published gifts and foundation filings only. It prints no net-worth estimates, no home values, no inferred salaries. A modern fortune enters only where its holder's own filings or a published account put a fact on the record.

Applied.No published gift by the family, and no family foundation filing, appears in the record reached, and the article prints that plainly rather than reaching for a valuation. The register's modern foundations (I M A, ruled 2004; Rob Melton Memorial Foundation, ruled 2010) enter by filing — address, ruling date, stated purpose — in the Philanthropy article; their filers' personal wealth is not estimated here. No other modern fortune on this ground meets the rule's threshold of a published fact: no published gift, no filing, no profile sizing a living resident's holdings was found in the record reached. The modern era of this section is therefore short by design — the rule, not the ground, sets its length.

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Source: Modern Fortunes Under the Living-Persons Rule (L17·8), Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/wealth/modern-fortunes-under-the-living-persons-rule-l178/