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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



Peabody, George Foster, New York, gifts for 

 a Young Men's Christian Association building, 

 $35,000, and a Young Men's Christian Association 

 building for negroes, $20,000, in Columbus, Ga., 

 provided the citizens maintain them. See 

 PALMER, WILLIAM J. 



Pearsons, Daniel Kimball, Chicago, gifts to 

 Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., $200,000, an addi- 

 tional $150,000 to be raised by the trustees; to 

 Illinois College. Jacksonville, 111.. $50,000, the 

 trustees to raise an additional $150.000: to North- 

 western University, Chapin Hall, cost $30,000; 

 Colorado College, '$50,000: Fargo College, Fargo, 

 N. Dak.. $50.000: Whitman College, Walla Walla, 

 $50,000: McKendree College, Lebanon, 111., $50,- 

 000- Bethany College. Lindsborg, Kan., $25,000; 

 Fairmount College. Wichita, Kan., $25,000; and 

 Drury College, Springfield, Mo., $25,000. 



Perkins, George T., Akron, Ohio, gift to the 

 city, a public library, cost, $50,000. 



Phillips, Miss Emily, Philadelphia, bequest to 

 the Grand Lodge of Masons of Pennsylvania, 

 about $200.000. 



Phillips Exeter Academy, Andover, Mass., 

 gift from a friend, an archeological collection, 

 valued -at $450,000, and building to contain it. 



Phillips, George W., Homer, N. Y., gift to the 

 village, funds for a library to cost $50,000. 



Pierce, Thomas S., Middleboro, Mass., bequest 

 to the town for charitable purposes, $600,000. 



Pierson, Mrs. William, Orange, N. J., gift to 

 the physicians of Orange to form a medical li- 

 brary, 8,000 volumes. 



Plimpton, George A., New York, gift to Wel- 

 lesley College, a library of Italian literature. 



Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospi- 

 tal, New York, gift from a friend, to support 

 three beds, $15,000. 



Presbyterian Hospital, New York, gift from 

 a friend, nurses' home, cost, $300,000. 



Princeton University, gifts from friends for 

 new gymnasium, $175,000; for university library, 

 $50,000; for a fellowship in rhetoric, $10,000; also 

 the property of the late Prof. Guyot. 



Proctor, H. L., Boston, gift to Mount Hermon 

 School, East Northfield, Mass., $5,000. 



Baley, Robert and Martha, Bangor, Iowa, 

 joint gift to Penn College, Oskaloosa, a 240-acre 

 farm, valued at $15,000. 



Banney, Harriet B., New York, bequest to 

 St. Luke's Hospital, to establish a bed for adults, 

 $6,000, and one for children, $3,000. 



Beasoner, Mrs. Andrew, East Orange, N. J., 

 gift to the Munn Avenue Presbyterian Church for 

 a new Sunday-school building, $25,000. 



Beid, Peter, Passaic, N. J., gift to the city, a 

 public library, cost $50,000. 



Bew, Irwin, Chicago, gift to Sheffield Scientific 

 School, $10,000. 



Beynal, Mrs. Nathalie, White Plains, N. Y., 

 bequests to the Foundling Hospital of the Sisters 

 of Charity of New York, $5,000; Association for 

 Befriending Children and Young Girls, New York, 

 and St. Joseph's Seminary, Yonkers, each $2,000; 

 and College of St. Francis Xavier, New York, 

 Church of St. Agnes, New York, and Church of 

 St. John's, White Plains, each $1,000. 



Bhinelander, Serena, New York, gift to the 

 Church of the Ascension, $50,000. 



Bice, Simon, Scranton, Pa., bequest to Hebrew 

 Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio, $300,000. 



Bichardson, Susan Cabot, Milton, Mass., be- 

 quest to Radcliffe College, the reversion of her 

 estate, $200,000. 



Boberts, Boswell A., Yonkers, N. Y., bequests 

 to religious, charitable, and educational institu- 

 tions in Yonkers, New York, and Georgia, with 



the reversion of one-half his residuary estate to- 

 the Homeopathic and Maternity Hospital, Yon- 

 kers, in all about $500,000. 



Bockefeller, John D., New York, gifts to 

 Brown University, $250,000, duplicating his gift of 

 1900; Cornell University, $250,000; Bryn Mawr 

 College, $230,000 toward a library building, dor- 

 mitory, and lighting plant; Barnard College, New 

 York, $200,000; Oberlin (Ohio) College, $200,000; 

 for the foundation in New York city of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research, $200,000; 

 Vassar College, for a new dormitory, $110,000; 

 Young Men's Christian Association, of New York, 

 $100,000; Des Moines (Iowa) College, $25,000; 

 Vermont Academy, Bennington, Vt., $15,000; Mer- 

 cer College, Macon, Ga., $15,000; Hyde Park Bap- 

 tist Church, Chicago, $15,000; Carson and New- 

 man College, Mossy Creek, Tenn., $15,000; Ameri- 

 can Church fund toward the erection of a church 

 in Berlin, Germany, $9,500; Wayland Academy, 

 Beaver Dam, Wis., $7,000; Huron Street Hospital, 

 Cleveland, Ohio, $5,000; Wellesley College, for a 

 dormitory and heating plant, $150,000; and the 

 University of Chicago, $1,250,000. The educa- 

 tional gifts were conditional on specified amounts 

 being otherwise raised during 1901, which in near- 

 ly all cases was done. 



Bogers, Henry H., gift to the Millicent Li- 

 brary, Fairhaven, Mass., the water-works plant of 

 the town. 



Bogers, Jacob S., Paterson, N. J., bequest to 

 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 

 about $5,500,000. Will contested and sustained. 



Bolph, Harriet W.-, Huntington, Long Island, 

 bequests to Presbyterian societies, $13,000. 



Bothwell, Bichard P., New York, bequest to 

 the Sophia fund for the care of destitute baby 

 girls, $40,000. 



Bussell, William G., Boston, gift from heirs 

 of, to the city of Plymouth, Mass., for a new li- 

 brary building, $20,000. 



Byan, Thomas F., New York, gift to the city 

 of Richmond, Va., funds for a Roman Catholic 

 cathedral, to cost $250,000. 



Byerson, Martin A., Chicago, 111., gift to 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., for a public library, $150,- 

 000. 



Salisbury, Edward Eldridge, New Haven, 

 Conn., bequests to Yale University, available on 

 the death of his widow, for the Art School, $45,- 

 000; the university library, $40,000; and for pur- 

 chase of books, $40,000. 



Sargent, Winthrop, Fishkill Landing, N. Y.,. 

 gift to the city for a free hospital, $20,000. 



Sayre, John, Missouri, bequest to Princeton 

 University, $15,000. 



Schermerhorn, F. Augustus, Lenox, Mass., 

 gift to Pittsburg House of Mercy Hospital, land 

 valued at $15,000. 



Schiff, Jacob H., New York, gift to the He- 

 brew Sheltering Guardian Society, $10,000; to 

 Harvard University for a Semitic building, $50,- 

 000; to the Building fund of the Educational A1-* 

 liance, $5,000; and to the Jewish Theological 

 Seminary, $200,000. 



Schwab, Charles M., Pittsburg, Pa., President 

 of the United States Steel Corporation, gifts to 

 Mount Aloysius Academy, Cresson, Pa., a new 

 building, cost $30,000; and to Weatherly, Pa., for 

 a trade-school, $25,000; also a church in memory 

 of his mother, erected at Loretto, Pa., cost, $150,- 

 000. 



Seamans, Clarence W., New York, gift to 

 Syracuse University, $25,000. 



Sebor, Louisa, Middletown, Conn., bequest to 

 Holy Trinity Church of that city, from $150,000 

 to $200,000. 



