GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



Thorndike, George L., East Boston, Mass., be- 

 .jiiests to the city in trust, the income to purchase 

 "\.rtl for widows of East Boston, $10,000. 



Thornton, Mrs. Charles C. G., and Mary C. 

 Thornton, Magnolia, Mass., joint gift to Thorn- 

 ton Academy. Saco, Me., $20,000. 



Tilton, Albert, Paterson, N. J.. bequests to the 

 General and St. Joseph's Hospitals and the Pater- 

 son Orphan Asylum, each $2,500. 



Tilton, Mrs. Caroline Stannard, New Orleans, 

 La., gift to Tulane University for a library, $50,- 

 000. 



Tousey, Mary Beach, New York, bequests to 

 Protestant Episcopal churches and institutions, 

 $1.000.000. Will contested, and upheld, March 15. 

 (See Annual Cyclopaedia for 1899.) 



Tuck, Edward, New York, gift to Dartmouth 

 College, a building for the School of Administra- 

 tion and Finance, $100,000, supplementing a for- 

 mer gift of $350.000. 



Tucker, Alfred T., Boston, bequests to Per- 

 kins Institute and Massachusetts School for the 

 Blind, Home for Aged Colored Women, Odd-Fel- 

 lows' Home, Worcester, Children's Mission to the 

 Children of the Destitute, and Franklin Typo- 

 graphical Society of Boston, each $1,000. 



Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, 

 Alabama, gift from four Brooklyn women, $10,000. 



University of the South, Sewanee, Term., gift 

 from a friend, to equip Convocation Hall as a 

 library, $0,000. 



Vanderbilt, Mrs. Cornelius, New York, gift 

 to Newport (R. I.) Hospital, a new building. 



Vanderbilt, Frederick, New York, gift to 

 Yale University, $100,000. 



Vanderpoel, J. Albert, Boston, bequests to 

 the Children's Aid Society of New York, Wolcott 

 Library Association of Litchfield, Conn., Presby- 

 terian Hospital of New York, and Rutgers College, 

 an equal share in the ultimate division of $100,000. 



Van Vleck, Joseph, Montclair, N. J., gift to 

 the town, a hospital, provided the town maintains 

 it, $8,000. 



Vassar, Mrs. Matthew, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 

 bequest to Vassar College for a scholarship, $8,000. 



Vaughn-Marquis, Mrs., Ashland, Wis., be- 

 quest to the city of Ashland, the Vaughn Library, 

 $60,000. 



Voorhees, Ralph N., Clinton, N. J., gift to 

 Carroll College, Waukesha, Wis., $25,000. 



Wabash Railroad Company, gift to the 

 Young Men's Christian Association, Peru, Ind.. 

 $6.000. 



Wallace, Jane A., New York, bequests to the 

 trustees of the Freedmen's Mission and Walden- 

 sian Church Mission, each $3,000; Board of For- 

 eign Missions. Board of Home Missions of the 

 Presbyterian Church, and fund for Relief of Aged 

 Ministers, each $2,000; and the Seventh Avenue 

 United Presbyterian Church, $1,000. 



Warburg, 'Felix M., New York, gift to- the 

 Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, $5,000. 



Warner, Ezra J., Chicago, gift to Middlebury 

 College, to equip the Warner Science Hall, $12,500. 



Warren, Nathan B., Troy, N. Y., bequest to 

 the Mary Warren Free Institute there, $120,000. 



Warren, Mrs. Susan C., Boston, Mass., be- 

 quests to the Massachusetts General Hospital, 

 $20,000; Museum of Fine Arts, $15,000; Peabody 

 Museum, $5.000; trustees for a permanent educa- 

 tional foundation at West Brook, Me., $50,000; 

 and to various charities and colleges, amounts 

 bringing the total to nearly $150,000. 



Wendell, Jacob, New York, bequests to Har- 

 vard College, $5,000. and the Home for Aged Men 

 and Aged Couples and the Home for Incurables, 

 both in New York, each $1,000. 



Wentz, John S., gift to the University of Penn- 

 sylvania for the engineering department, $5,000. 



Wesleyan University, gifts from friends to- 

 ward the fund for an administration building, 

 $50,000; for special needs, $25,000. 



Wheeler, Schuyler S., gift to the American 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers' Library, New 

 York, the Latimer-Clark collection of electrical 

 works, containing more than 6,000 volumes. 



White, Mrs. Elizabeth, Lancaster, Pa., be- 

 quest to the Board of Foreign Missions of the 

 Presbyterian Church, $9,000. 



White, Flavia, St. Paul, Minn., bequest to the 

 city of Whitewater, Wis., for public library, $17,- 

 000. 



White, Stephen V., New York, gift to Knox 

 College endowment fund, $5,000. 



White, Susan J., Boston, bequests to the Mas- 

 sachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to 

 Animals, Home for Aged Couples, Home for Aged 

 Women, Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, 

 and Young Men's Christian Union of Boston, each 

 $12,000; and Sailors' Snug Harbor, Quincy, Be- 

 thesda Society, Massachusetts Society for Preven- 

 tion of Cruelty to Children, and Eye and Ear In- 

 firmary, each $10,000. 



Whitehouse, Mr. and Mrs. W. Fitzhugh, 

 joint gift to Trinity Church, New York, heroic- 

 size statues of the evangelists St. Matthew, St. 

 Mark, St. Luke, and St. John. 



Whitney, Anna Eliza, Lancaster, Mass., gift 

 to Bolton, for a public library, $10,000. 



Whitney, Mrs. David, Detroit, gifts to twenty 

 charitable and religious societies, aggregating 

 $125,000. 



Whitney, William C., New York, gift to Yale 

 College for its bicentennial fund, $25,000, and to 

 the Nassau Hospital, Mineola, Long Island, N. Y., 



Wiestling, Marie K., Frederick, Md., bequests 

 to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, 

 $30,000; American Board of Commissioners for 

 Foreign Missions, $5,000; American Tract Society, 

 $5,000. 



Wilbur, Warren A., South Bethlehem, Pa., gift 

 to Lehigh University for apparatus for its me- 

 chanical engineering department, $5,000. 



Wilcox, Mrs. Harriet, Brooklyn, N. Y., be- 

 quests to Westerly (R. I.) Memorial and Library 

 Association, $150,000; Hampton Industrial and 

 Normal Institute, Hampton, Va., Children's Aid 

 Society, New York city, New York Skin and Can- 

 cer Hospital, Home for Aged Men, Providence, 

 R. I., and Wesleyan University, Middletown, 

 Conn., each $20,000; the Industrial Home for the 

 Blind, Brooklyn, N. Y., Association for Improve- 

 ment of the Poor of New York City, American 

 Missionary Society of New York City, Home for 

 Consumptives, New York, each $10,000; and 

 Broad Street Christian Church, First Baptist, Cal- 

 vary Baptist, and Methodist Episcopal Churches, 

 all in Westerly, each $5,000. 



Williams, J. P., Savannah, Ga., gift, to Emory 

 College, Covington, Ala., for a building for the 

 department of science, $15,000. 



Wisler, Henry H., Philadelphia, Pa., bequest 

 to the Fiftieth Baptist Church of Philadelphia, 

 real estate for endowment of the Wisler Memorial 

 Baptist Home. 



Wolff, Bernard, Jr., Pittsburg, Pa., bequests 

 for benevolent purposes, $22,000, and a residuary 

 estate of $250,000, one-half to Franklin and Mar- 

 shall College, Lancaster, Pa., one-fourth to Cataw- 

 ba College, Newton, N. C., and one-fourth to its 

 Board of Home Missions of the Reformed Church. 



Wood, H. Holton, Derby, Conn., gift to the 

 town, a library building, and for books, $5,000. 



