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for at public institutions. The State School 

 for the Deaf contained 213 pupils at the close 

 of the year, the School for the Blind 85 pupils, 

 and the public School for Dependent Children 

 97 pupils. At the new Veterans' Home, at 

 Waupaca, 12 inmates had been received before 

 the year ended. 



Prisons. Tljere were 446 convicts at the 

 State Prison on December 31. The State hires 

 their labor to a manufacturer, at a fixed rate 

 per day for each man, and pays all the prison 

 expenses. By this arrangement the actual cost 

 of the prison is $10,000 annually. The indus- 

 trial school for boys contained 349 inmates 

 when the year closed. 



Agriculture. About half of the population of 

 the State is engaged in agriculture upon 150,- 

 000 farms having an area of 16,000,000 acres, 

 8,000,000 of which are in cultivation. The 

 acreage of corn last year was 1,000,000, pro- 

 ducing 32,000.000 bushels. The pasturage 

 and grasses of Wisconsin amount annually 

 to $45,000,000, of which the hay-crop repre- 

 sents $15,000,000. Farm-lands and farm-prod- 

 ucts for 1886 were valued at $600,000,000, 

 which is $200,000,000 more than all other in- 

 dustries in the State. 



Political. At the State election in April, the 

 only officer to be chosen was a justice of the 

 Supreme Court. Justice Harlow S. Orton was 

 re-elected without opposition, receiving 127,944 

 votes out of a total of 128,308. 



WOLFE, CATHERINE LORILLARD, an Ameri- 

 can philanthropist, born. in New York City, 

 March 8, 1828 ; died there, April 4, 1887. She 

 was the youngest and only surviving child of 

 John David Wolfe, a rich hardware merchant, 

 and Dorothea Ann, youngest daughter of Peter 

 Lorillard the elder. She received an excellent 

 education, and in early life was a leader in 

 society. On the death of her mother, in 1867, 

 she withdrew from social life and devoted her- 

 self to her father, who died in 1872. Both 

 parents were noted for their many deeds of 

 charity and their ardent love of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church. Her father was a warden 

 for many years of Grace Church, with which 

 she united in early life, and to which she gave 

 the chantry at the south side and Grace House 

 at the north, the grand organ, the reredos, 

 and a large stained-glass window (regarded as 

 the most beautiful and costly in the United 

 States) at the back of the transept. Her fa- 

 ther survived the rest of Mr. Lorillard's heirs, 

 and at his death left her sole heiress to a for- 

 tune estimated at $12,000,000 from the two 

 estates, much of which consisted of securities 

 and real estate. From that time till her death 

 she gave away about $2,000,000 for religious, 

 educational, and charitable purpose?, averag- 

 ing over $200,000 a year. During the last 

 year of her life she gave $50,000 to purchase a 

 church for the Italian mission in New York ; 

 $30,000 to the trustees of Grace Church to 

 purchase a building on Fourth Avenue in the 

 rear of the church, which she desired torn 



down, that nothing should ever obscure the 

 light from the stained-glass window ; $170,000 

 for the purchase of a lot and the erection of 

 a diocesan house in Lafayette place; $25,000 

 to the Virginia Seminary ; $40,000 to the 

 American Church in Rome, Italy; $20,000 

 to the American school in Athens, Greece; 

 $30,000 for educational purposes in Iowa, he- 

 sides endowing the chair of English Litera- 

 ture and Belles Lettres in Griswold College ; 

 over $100,000 to home and foreign missionary 

 societies ; and corresponding amounts to sev- 



CATHERINE LORILLARD WOLFE. 



eral churches and schools in Nevada, Califor- 

 nia, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, and Minnesota. 

 She had previously given $50,000 to Union Col- 

 lege, $50,000 to St. Johnsland College, $30,000 

 toward purchasing the site on which the Home 

 for Incurables, at Fordham, N. Y., is built, and 

 a large sum for the endowment of the Wolfe 

 Fund for Infirm Clergymen, besides establish- 

 ing the Newsboys' Lodging House, and support- 

 ing the Wolfe expedition to Asia Minor in 1884. 

 She had a house and lot, valued with the furni- 

 ture at over $300,000, in New York City, and 

 an estate at Newport, R. I., the lot, house, and 

 furniture of which represented an outlay of 

 $500,000. In her will she gave her entire col- 

 lection of oil-paintings and water-color draw- 

 ings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, be- 

 queathing $200,000 for their preservation, and 

 gave the corporation of Grace Church $350,000 

 for the care of the edifice and the buildings she 

 had previously provided, and the promotion of 

 worship according to the rites of the Protes- 

 tant Episcopal Church. 



WYOMING TERRITORY. Territorial Govern- 

 ment. The following were the Territorial offi- 

 cers during the year : Governor, Thomas Moon- 

 light; Secretary, Elliott S. N. Morgan, suc- 

 ceeded by Samuel D. Shannon ; Auditor, 

 Mortimer N. Grant; Treasurer, William P. 

 Gannett; Attorney-General, Hugo Donzel- 



