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Seneca, Stephen J., and wife, Havre de Grace, 

 Md., gift, funds for a Methodist Episcopal church 

 edifice, to cost $35,000. 



Severance, Lewis H., New York, gift to Ober- 

 lin College for endowment of chair of Chemistry, 

 $40,000. 



Shannon, Mary, Newton, Mass., bequests to 

 various institutions in Newton, $46,000; other 

 institutions in Massachusetts, $32,000; Wellesley 

 College, $15,000; Hampton Normal and Agricul- 

 tural Institute, $10,000; Tuskegee Institute, Kit- 

 trell (N. C.) Normal School for Negroes, and Mal- 

 lalien Seminary for Poor Whites, Kinsey, Ala., 

 each $5,000; Bar Harbor (Me.) Free Library, 

 $1,000, and an acre of land for a park, and the 

 American Purity Alliance of New York, $2,000. 



Shattuck, Elizabeth P., gift to Harvard Uni- 

 versity for the Henry Lee Fellowship fund, $25,000. 



Sheldon, George R., and brothers and sisters, 

 gift to St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., a library 

 building. 



Sibley, Hiram W., Rochester, N. Y., gift to 

 Sibley Cpllege of Mechanical Engineering of Cor- 

 nell University, for a new building, $85,000. 



Silliman, Benjamin D., Brooklyn, bequests to 

 Yale University for a fellowship, $10,000, and 

 $100,000 to revert to Yale on the death of a niece 

 and nephew; to Columbia University for a fel- 

 lowship, $10,000. 



Silliman, Dr. Horace B., Cohoes, N. Y., gift to 

 Union College, Schenectady, N.- Y., a new build- 

 ing for the Young Men's Christian Association, 

 cost $50,000. 



Simmons, E. Z., Kenoska, Wis., gift to the 

 city for an emergency hospital, $30,000. 



Simpkins, C. B,., gift to Harvard University 

 for a room for instruction in mining and engineer- 

 ing, $10,000. 



Simpkins, John, gift to Harvard University, 

 $20,000. 



Slimmer, Abram, Waverly, Iowa, gift for a 

 dispensary for the Lying-in Hospital, Chicago, 

 $5,000. 



Smith, Charles A., Minneapolis, Minn., gift to 

 the Swedish Lutheran College, Lindsborg, Kan., 

 25,000,000 feet of standing pine, valued at $25,000. 



Smith College, gift from a friend for the en- 

 dowment fund and for a new building, each $50,- 

 000. 



Smith, Mrs. F. M., gift of funds to build in 

 East Oakland, Cal., ten cottages, each to house 

 ten girls in charge of a matron, who will give them 

 training in household management. 



Smith, Mrs. Harriet Bacon, New York, be- 

 quests to the Eye and Ear Hospital and the Home 

 for the Aged of the Church Charity Foundation, 

 each $10,000; Children's Aid Society, Brooklyn, 

 $4,000; and the Diet Dispensary, Brooklyn, $3,000. 



Smith, Herbert K., Melissa E., and Ernest 

 W., New York, joint gift to Yale University, $30,- 

 000. 



Smith, John Jewett, New York, bequests to 

 the Church of Zion and St. Timothy, $5,000; and 

 Grace Episcopal Church, Elizabeth, Protestant 

 Episcopal Mission Society for Seamen, Protestant 

 Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society in the 

 United States, and New York Protestant Episco- 

 pal City Mission Society, each $1,000. 



Smith, Lyman Cornelius, Syracuse, N. Y., 

 gift to Syracuse University, a building for its 

 department of mechanical engineering. 



Speyer, James, and wife, New York, joint gift 

 to the Teachers College for an experimental 

 school, $100,000. 



Stanford, Mrs. Jane L., San Francisco, Cal., 

 gift to the Leland Stanford, Jr., University, stocks 

 valued at $18,000,000, and 1,000,000 acres of real 



estate worth $12,000,000; also IKT home in San 

 Francisco, worth $400,000, the latter to be con- 

 verted into a museum and art gallery, 



Starr, Dr. M. Allen, New York. ^it'i. in Mid- 

 dlebury College for books, $5,000. 



Stearns, Mary F., Medford, Ma>s., bequests t.o 

 the Massachusetts Homeopathic Jlo-piiiii 

 000; to Tufts College, Medford, the rever.sion oV 

 $50,000; to Tuskegee Institute, Hampton Normal 

 and Agricultural School, and Berea College, equal 

 shares of the residue of her estate. 



Steenland, Halle, Madison, VVis., gift to St. 

 Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., a library building. 



Stephenson, Isaac, Marinette, Wis., gift to the 

 city for a library building, provided the city main- 

 tains it, $30,000. 



Stern, Benjamin, New York, gift to Mount 

 Sinai Hospital, to equip the main operating room. 

 $20,000. 



Stillman, Benjamin D., bequest to Columbia 

 University, to establish a fellowship in letters or 

 science, $10,000. 



Stout, F. D., Dubuque, Iowa, gift to the city, 

 a site for a library building, $17,000. 



Strong, Charles A., New Brunswick, N. J. r 

 bequests to Wells Memorial Hospital and the 

 Young Men's Christian Association in New Bruns- 

 wick, N. J., each $10,000; Rutgers College, $115,- 

 000; and the Children's Industrial Home in New 

 Brunswick, $5,000. 



Synnott, Rev. John, Taftsville, Conn., bequest 

 to St. Francis Orphan Asylum, New Haven. $10,- 

 000. 



Syracuse University, gift from a friend, $10,- 

 000. 



Talbot, Mrs. Calista, Buffalo, N. Y., bequests 

 to fourteen charitable and benevolent institutions 

 of Buffalo, an aggregate of $39,000. 



Taylor, Emma Flower, Watertown, N. Y., 



ift to the city, a public library building and site, 

 T 200,000. 



Taylor, James B., Brooklyn, N. Y., bequests 

 to the Industrial School Association and Home 

 for Destitute Children, Home for Temporary Aid 

 of Friendless Women, Children's Aid Society, 

 American McAll Association, Young Men's Chris- 

 tian Home for Consumptives, Young Women'* 

 Christian Association, City Mission and Tract So- 

 ciety, and City Bible Society, each $5,000; and 

 Women's Work Exchange, $2,500, all in Brooklyn. 



Teachers College, New York, gift from a man 

 and wife, for a building to be used outside of 

 school hours, $100,000. 



Thayer, Alexander Wheelock, bequest to- 

 Harvard University, $7,750. 



Thayer, Ruth Simpkins, gift to Harvard Uni- 

 versity for a room for instruction in mining and 

 engineering, $5,000. 



Thomas, George C., New York, gift to the 

 city of San Juan, Porto Rico, for a Protestant 

 Episcopal church, $6,000. 



Thompson, E. C., and wife, Indianapolis, Ind., 

 joint gift to Butler College, in that city, for a 

 library, $20,000, supplementing previous gift of 

 $10,000. 



Thompson, J. V., Uniontown, Pa., gift to 

 Washington and Jefferson College for the endow- 

 ment of the president's chair, $100,000. 



Thompson, Mary Thaw, gift to Washington 

 and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., for a new 

 library building, $10,000, supplementing $50,000 

 given for the same purpose by her husband, Wil- 

 liam R. Thompson. 



Thompson, Thomas, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., be- 

 quest for the support of poor seamstresses and 

 shop-girls of Rhinebeck, N. Y., and Brattleboro, 

 Vt., $1,100,000. 



