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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



quests for asylums for the poor at Dalkey, Ireland, 

 and New Orleans, $198,000. 



Keteltas, Henry, New York, bequests to the 

 New York Historical Society, portraits and $5,000. 

 Knnhardt, Mrs. C. R., New York, gift to the 

 Peabody Home for Aged Women, $5,000. 



Lawrence, Bryan, New York, bequests to local 

 Roman Catholic institutions, the American College 

 in Rome, Italy, and the Roman Catholic University 

 of America, an aggregate of $107,000; and to St. 

 Francis's Hospital, St. Joseph's Hospital, Home for 

 the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor. St. 

 Joseph's Home for the Aged, and the Society of 

 St. Vincent de Paul, after payment of specific lega- 

 cies, the residue of an estate, estimated at $600,000. 

 Lawrence, Mrs. Samuel, and Mrs. James R. 

 Swords. New York, gift to the library of Columbia 

 University, $6,000. 



Lawton, Mrs. James Marsland, daughter of 

 Gen. Robert Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, gift 

 to the United States Government, a fountain at 

 West Point, N. Y. : cost, $10,000. 



Lawton, Mrs., Thomas A., Newport, R. I., be- 

 quests to C banning Memorial Church, $25,000, and 

 to the Congregational church and Smith Memorial 

 Hall in Dighton, each $5,000. 



Leary, Miss Annie, New York, gift to the De- 

 partment of Charities and Correction, a chapel at 

 Bellevue Hospital for Roman Catholic worship. 



Lembeck, Henry, Jersey City, N. J., gift to the 

 city for a public park, a plot of 2^ acres. 



Livingston, Mrs. Mary A., New York, bequests 

 to marine and other benevolent societies, an aggre- 

 gate of $45,000. 



Loomis Sanitarium for Consumptives, at Lib- 

 erty, N. Y. : the buildings comprise the Administra- 

 tion Building, erected by J.Pierpont Morgan; Casino, 

 for amusement and recreation, by Mrs. George 

 Lewis ; and cottages bearing the names of their 

 donors. 



Low, Seth, President of Columbia University, 

 gift to Barnard College, $10,000 ; also to New York 

 Kindergarten Association, $5,000. 



Ludlow, Mrs. Elizabeth Mary, New York, gift 

 to Columbia University for a chair of music, $150,- 

 000. 



Lyman, Edward H. R.. New York, gift to Smith 

 College, Northampton, Mass., a plant house for its 

 botanical garden. 



McKean, Thomas, Philadelphia, Pa., gift to the 

 University of Pennsylvania, conditional, $100,000. 



McMahon, Ellen, Brooklyn, bequest for a Ro- 

 man Catholic school building, $6,000. 



Magee, C. L., Pittsburg, gift for the establish- 

 ment of a zoological garden in one of the city parks, 

 $100,000. 



Massey, Hart A., Cleveland, Ohio, and Toronto, 

 Ontario, bequests to Canadian educational and 

 Methodist institutions, $575,000 ; the American 

 University, Washington, D. C., $50,000; and the 

 Moody Northfield schools, $10,000. 



Maxwell, George, Rockville, Conn., bequest for 

 a public library, $10,000, to which the town added 

 $10,000. 



Mayer, Antoinette, New York, bequests to the 

 Montefiore House and Mount Sinai Hospital, each 

 $5.000. 



Merian, John J., Brooklyn. N. Y., bequests to 

 charitable, church, and historical societies in New 

 York and Brooklyn, $9,000. 



Merrifleld, William T., Worcester, Mass., be- 

 quests to Congregational and local charitable insti- 

 tutions, $9,000. 



Merrill, Dr. Abner L., Andover, Mass., gifts to 

 Phillips Exeter Academy, the high school, and the 

 seminary, each $8,000 in bonds, for prizes in Eng- 

 lish composition, and to the two last also $3,000. 



Methodist National University, Washington, 

 D. C., gifts from the clergy for an Asbury Memorial 

 Hall. $100.000. 



Miller, John W., New York, bequests to the 

 Ottilie Orphan Asylum, Newton, Long Island, $60.- 

 000 ; the Evangelical Reformed Church, Avenue B, 

 $25,000 outright and $25,000 interest ; and, on the 

 death of his widow, to the German Evangelical 

 Synod and Missionary Society. St. Louis, $10,000, 

 and the Five Points House of Industry and the 

 Wetmore Home, each $5,000. 



Mills, D. T., Boston, bequests, unavailable for 

 several years, to the Home for Aged Couples, $10,- 

 000 ; Home for Aged Men, $5,000 ; Home for Aged 

 Women, $5,000; and the Museum of Fine Arts, the 

 residue of his estate, estimated from $500,000 to 

 $750,000. 



Moir, William, New York, bequests to Presby- 

 terian institutions, $55,000. 



3Iorgan, Jnnius S.. New York, gift to Prince- 

 ton University, a collection of early editions of Ver- 

 gil, valued by experts at $50,000. 



Morris, ifanlel, Atlantic City, N. J., gift for a 

 Roman Catholic orphanage at Hopewell, N. J., 

 $47,775. 



Mount Holyoke College, gift from alumnae in 

 New York and Brooklyn, for a cottage, $30.000. 



Mullen, Patrick, Brooklyn, bequests to the 

 Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor, 

 conditionally, the income of $10,000 annually, and 

 to the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, for use in 

 teaching the Irish language, a residue of about 

 SS5.000. 



Nettleton, Henry I., Durham, Conn., gift to 

 Wesleyan University, a collection of subcarbonifer- 

 ous crinoids, valued at $10.000. 



Noyes, Augusta S., Brookline, Mass., bequests to 

 the American Board, Woman's Board of Foreign 

 Missions, and Congregational Home Missionary So- 

 ciety of New York city, each $2.000. 



O'Brien. Patrick B., New Orleans, La., bequests 

 to the Catholic University of America, $150,000; 

 the archiepiscopal diocese of New Orleans, for edu- 

 cation of priests, $20,000; Hotel Dieu, $6,000; and 

 House of the Good Shepherd and the Church of the 

 Sacred Heart, each $5,000. 



Offerman, Henry, Brooklyn, bequest to the 

 Wartburg Orphans' Farm School of the Evangel- 

 ical Lutheran Church, $5,000. 



Olcott, Mrs. F. P., New York, gift to Barnard 

 College, $5,000. 



O'Neill, Mary, Poughkeepsie. N. Y., bequests to 

 Roman Catholic churches and clergymen, $7,500. 



Paderewski, Ignace J.. pianist, 'gift for a fund 

 to encourage American composers by means of 

 prizes, $10,000. 



Paige, Lucius Robinson. See OBITUARIES, 

 AMERICAN. 



Palmer, F. A., New York, gift to Antioch Col- 

 lege, Yellow Springs, Ohio, for a chair of Christian 

 ethics, $50,000. 



Pearsons, Daniel Kimball. M. D., Chicago, 

 gifts to Mount Holyoke College, $25,000, first pay- 

 ment of a conditional gift of $50,000, and to Drury 

 College, $25,000, last payment of a similar gift. 



Perkins, Willard B., Colorado Springs, Col., 

 bequests to the Lawrence (Mass.) General Hospital, 

 $50,000; Lawrence High School, $2,000; Lawrence 

 Young Men's Christian Association, $5,000; Colo- 

 rado College, $24,000; Columbia College, $6,000; 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $6,000 ; and 

 city of Colorado Springs, $3,000. 



Perkins Institution for the Blind, Boston, 

 Mass., bequests from Miss Margaret Copen, $13,- 

 770; Mrs. Ann W. Vose, $10.000; Samuel E. Saw- 

 yer. $2,000 ; and Albert Glover, $2,000. 

 Peters, T. M., D. D., New York, friends of the 



