In 1962 when Eleanor Roosevelt passed away her estimated net worth amounted to $1 million. The writer humanitarian First Lady of the United States benefited from inherited riches combined with money earned from organizational work and writing. As she focused on advocacy for human rights above all else she built a legacy rather than seek financial accumulation.
Benjamin Franklin’s actual worth today is hard to say exactly in modern currency however it is calculated per Benjamin bequeathing his estate, the cities would be around $6.5 million today.
As many other Virginians Thomas Jefferson also accumulated his fortune with the help of control of land and property, and through ownership of human cattle. Jefferson got married in this period and owned at least 280 slaves, 617 acres of land with Monticello and other estates and he constantly and persistently suffered from financial problems throughout his life. Much as Jefferson owned successful farms and properties he was financially a failure all his life and died indebted. In its crash his worth was valued at approximately a million dollars in assets but there was money owed in his lifetime.
Abraham Lincoln was not a very wealthy man, ALWAYS in simple term financially had no much to offer. He was not wealthy; however, he had some money throughout his life from his fee for practicing law. It is only at his death that his net worth was estimated to be around $85,000, the equivalent of $1.5 million in today’s worth.