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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



Beckwith, Abby (*., bequest to Brown Univer- 

 sity, 5,000. 



Berkeley Divinity School. Middletown, Conn., 

 gift from friends, a library building: cost, S20.000; 

 presented Nov. 18, 18U6. 



Bertram, Susan H.. Boston, bequest to the Sis- 

 terhood of the Holy Nativity, Providence, K. I., the 

 annual income of $50,000; Sisterhood of the Holy 

 Nativity, Fond du Lac, Wis., $5,000: St. Luke's 

 Home for Convalescents, Koxbury. Mass., the rever- 

 sion of $10,000; Homoeopathic 'Hospital, Boston, 

 the reversion of $10,000; and the Home for Aged 

 and Indigent Women, Salem, St. Margaret's Hos- 

 pital, Boston, and the Sisterhood of the Holy Na- 

 tivity, Providence (the last two for special pur- 

 poses), each $5.000. 



Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan., friends of, 

 gift, of an organ ; cost, $5,000. 



Blackstone, Timothy, Chicago, gift to Bran- 

 ford, Conn., of a public library; cost, $800,000. 



Blaine, Mrs. Einmpns, Richfield Springs, N. Y., 

 gift to the Presbyterian Church there, an organ ; 

 cost. $15,000. 



Blair, John I., Blairstown, N. J., gift to Prince- 

 ton University, for a Gothic dormitory. $150,000. 



Bliss, George. See OBITUARIKS, AMERICAN. 



Bloomingdale, J. B., New York, gift to Barnard 

 College, $5.001). 



Botta, Vincenzo and Anne C. L., New York 

 city, executor of, settlement of bequests to the Uni- 

 versity of the City of New York, $10,000 and their 

 library and art collections. 



Bourne, Miss. New Bedford, Mass., gifts to the 

 town of Bourne, a public library; cost, $10,000, and 

 a collection of valuable, books. 



Bowen, Henry Chandler. See OBITUARIES, 

 AMERICAN. 



Bradley, Mrs. Julia, Peoria, 111., gift to the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, her entire fortune, estimated at 

 $2.200,000. The condition is that the university 

 shall erect and maintain in Peoria an institution to 

 be called the Bradley Polytechnic Institute, and 

 that two of its seven directors shall be connected 

 with the university. 



Bradley, Miss M. F.. Fryeburg, Me., bequests 

 to local educational and missionary institutions, 



Brimmer, Martin. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Brinckerholf. Mrs. Van Wyck, New York, gift 

 to Barnard College, a hall building, cost $130,000. 



Brown, Harriet L., Boston, bequests to charita- 

 ble and educational institutions, available at once, 

 $23,000; available on death of annuitants, $10,000. 



Buckland, Samuel C., Arlington, Mass., be- 

 quests to the town and to local churches and insti- 

 tutions, improved real estate and $7,200. 



Bull, Mrs. Mary Putnam, Irvington, N. Y., be- 

 quests to churches and charitable institutions in 

 New York and Connecticut, $30,000. 



Burns, Mrs. Rose, New York city, bequests to 

 Roman Catholic institutions, $6,500. 



Bush, John L.. Spencer, Mass., bequests to Con- 

 gregational associations, the Children's Hospital in 

 Boston, and local institutions, $17,000. 



Christian Alliance, friends of, gifts for foreign 

 missions aggregating $101,500. 



Christian. Mrs. Hans S., Brooklyn. N. Y.. gifts 

 to Brooklyn Kindergarten Association, $10,000 and 

 a building. 



Clay, Mrs. Susan, East Jaff rev, N. H., bequest to 

 the town, a public library. 



Cochran, William F.. Yonkers, N. Y., gift to 

 the Hollywood Inn (workinginen's club), a new 

 building and equipments, cost $125,000. 



Colby, Charles L., New York city, bequests to 

 Brown University, $20.000; Baptist missionary 

 societies, $30,000; and local charities, $10,000. 



Collamore, John Hoffman. See OBITUARIES, 



AMERICAN. 



Colt. Mrs. Samuel, Hartford, Conn., gift to the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church, parish building in 

 Hartford, cost $200.000. 



Conselyea, Dr. Lawrence W.. Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 bequests to the Seney Hospital. $25.000 :' Brooklyn 

 Home tor Aged Men, $5.000; and Brooklyn Home 

 for Aged Women. $5.000. 



Cooper. Eliza. New York, bequests to Baptist 

 churches in New York city and Nanuet, N. Y.. 

 $6,000. 



Corning, John B.. Hartford, Conn., bequest to 

 the city hospital. $5,000. 



Cotton. Margaret. Brooklyn; N. Y., bequest to 

 the Masonic Asylum at Utica.'N. Y.. $25.000. 



Crane, Angelina, New York, bequest to the city 

 for a fountain. $50.000. 



Culver, Miss Helen, Chicago, 111., gift to the 

 I'niversity of Chicago, $25,000 (supplementing a 

 previous gift of $1,000,000), for biological depart- 

 ment. 



Dalton, Charles M., Boston, Mass., bequest to 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for a 

 scholarship in chemistry. $5.000. 



Damon, Harriet Wheeler, Worcester, Mass., 

 bequests to institutions. $17.100: and to four edu- 

 cational and missionary societies, the residue of her 

 estate. 



Darling, Alfred B., New York, bequests for 

 construction or endowment of a hospital at Han- 

 over. N. IL, $10.000; the Congregational Society 

 of East Burke. Yt.. the land it now occupies and 

 $10.000: St. -lohnsbury (Yt.) Academy, $10,000: 

 and Lvndon (Yt.) Literary and Biblical Institute, 

 $2.500." 



Davenport, John I. .bequest to Amherst College. 

 available on the death of his widow, $50,000. 



Deering, William. Evanston, 111., gift to North- 

 western Universitv, $215,000, making his total gifts 

 to it $400,000. 



Doelger, Barbara, Newark. N. J., bequests to 

 four local charities, each $1.000: and for the poor 

 of two cities in Germany, each $5()(). 



Donnell, Ezekiel J.. New York, bequest to the 

 New York Free Circulating Library, conditionally, 

 an estate of $630.000. 



Dougherty. Rev. Father, Honesdale, Pa., bequest 

 to the Catholic University of America, $5,000. 



Drnry College, Springfield, Mo., gifts from Dan- 

 iel K. Pearsons. $25.000 ; Judge M. L. Gray, $20,000 ; 

 other friends, $55,000 all for endowment. 



Ellis, John, New York, bequests to the American 

 Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society, $30,- 

 000; Swedenborg Publishing Company of Philadel- 

 phia, $10,000 ; National Temperance Society, $10,- 

 000 : and the New York Society of the New Church, 

 $10.000. 



Ewing, Judge Nathaniel. Uniontown, Pa., gifts 

 for First Presbyterian Church there, $20,000 and a 

 $9,000 organ. 



Farrington, Ira P., Portland, Me., bequest to 

 the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, $200,000. 



Field, Joseph, Chicago, gift to Mount Holyoke 

 College, $6,000. 



Fiske, Mrs. Josiah M., New York, gift to Bar- 

 nard College. $5,000. 



Flat-ley, Rev. Michael Francis, Maiden. Mass., 

 bequests to Boston College, $1,000; and to Roman 

 Catholic institutions, $3,300 and valuable real 

 estate. 



Fletcher, J. Yarniiiii, Westford, Mass., gift, a 

 public-library building. 



Flower Surgical Hospital, New York, gift 

 from the Women's Guild of the New York Hoiiuro- 

 pathic Medical College and Hospital, a new med- 

 ical wing; cost over $100,000. 



