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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



name is withheld, to build and equip quarters for a 

 department of mechanic arts and of farm study and 

 drawing (to cost $200,000), $500,000. 



Friends of Tufts College, College Hill, Mass., pledge 

 to build and equip a new structure for the Emergency 

 Hospital of the College, to cost $100,000. 



G-age. Alva, of Charleston, S. C., gift to the Unita- 

 rian church, a brick parish house, cost over $11,000. 



Gardner, Dr. Joseph, of Bedford^ Ind., girt to the 

 American Red Cross Association, lor a national base 

 of supplies, a stocked farm of 700 acres in Indiana. 



General Theological Seminary, New York city, friends 

 of the, gift to the seminary of the Copinger collec- 

 tion of Latin Bibles, comprising 543 editions in 1,3(54 

 volumes, believed to be the largest collection of its 

 kind in the world. 



German Government, gift to the States of New York, 

 Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, portions of its educa- 

 tional exhibit at the World's Fair. 



Gerry, Elbridge T., of New York city, gift to the 

 Commissioners of Charities and Correction, a solari- 

 um for the benefit of the inmates of the Charity Hos- 

 pital, on Blackwell's Island, as a memorial to a dead 

 daughter icost, equipped, about $7,000. 



Gillies, William, of New York city (died March 4, 

 1893), bequests to the American Bible Society and 

 the American Tract Society, $5,000 each, and to the 

 Howard Mission and the American Missionary Asso- 

 ciation, $150,000, in equal parts. 



Glover, Henry B., of Cambridge, Mass., bequests to 

 institutions in the Baptist Church, $26,500. 



Gpldthwaite, Willard, of Salem, Mass., bequest to 

 Tufts College, for establishment of a professorship of 

 rhetoric, $25,000 ; to the same, his residuary estate, to 

 enable needy students to obtain an education. 



Grata, Hyman, of Philadelphia, Pa., bequest to the 

 Mickoe Israel Congregation, to perpetuate the mem- 

 ory of his sister Rebecca, a sum exceeding $100,000 ; 

 bequest became operative in October, 1893. 



Green, Mrs. John 0., of New York city, bequests to 

 the Lawrenceville (N. J.) Preparatory school, John 

 C. Green foundation, $100,000 ; the New York Society 

 for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, $50,000; 

 the New York Female Bible Society, $20,000 ; and 

 the University Place Presbyterian Church, $10,000 

 and her pew, valued at $1,000. 



Gnrney, Mrs. Lillie, of Waterville, Me., bequest, of 

 residue of estate to Colby University, $275,000. 



Hart, Mrs. Dr. R, of' Hartford, Conn., bequest to 

 the medical school of Yale University, $25,000. 



Hecker, John V., for the Hecker-Jones-Jewell Mill- 

 ing Company, of New York city, gift, for distribution 

 amongj the needy_ under the direction of the Charity 

 Organization Society, 25,000 bags of flour. 



Hitchcock, Hiram, of New York city, gift to Dart- 

 mouth College, a hospital comprising three buildings 

 and a surgical operating theater, erected in memory 

 of his wife, and dedicated May 3, 1893. 



Hnbbard, Thomas H., of Boston, Mass., gift to Hallo- 

 well, Me., a public library building, cost $50,000. 



Hunt, Mrs. E. K., of Hartford, .Conn., bequest to the 

 Medical School of Yale University, $25,000. 



Hussey, Curtis G., of Pittsburg, Pa., bequests for the 

 destitute women of Pittsburg and Allegheny, $50,- 

 000 ; to the Peace Association of the Society of Friends 

 in the West, the Hussey School in Matamoros, Mexico, 

 the Asylum for Colored Children in Allegheny, and 

 the Foreign and Christian Missions Societies in Mex- 

 ico, $5,000 each. 



lokelheimer, Isaac, of New York city, bequests to 

 local Hebrew benevolent institutions, $10,000. 



Ingalls, David, Springfield, N. Y., bequests to Pres- 

 byterian Missions, $350,000; and to Presbyterian 

 Board of Relief, $50.000; will contested and sus- 

 tained. 



Jeanes, William 0., of Philadelphia, Pa., bequest to 

 the Wills Eye Hospital, $25,000. 



Johnson, Mrs. Catharine, of California, bequest to 

 Archbishop Riordan, of San Francisco, for the en- 

 dowment of a free hospital in that city, one third of 

 her estate of $2,000,000. 



Zeeney, Mrs. Mary Jeanette, of Hartford, Conn., be- 



Suests to Christ Church, $30,000; to Trinity College, 

 25,000 ; to the Wadsworth Athenaeum, as a fund the 

 interest of which is to be used for the purchase of 

 art works, $25,000 ; to six local institutions, $10,000 

 each ; and to the new building fund of Trinity 

 Church, $10,000. 



Kennedy, John Stewart, of New York city, gift to a 

 board of trustees representing the Children's Aid Soci- 

 ety, the New York City Mission aud Tract Society, the 

 Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 

 and the Charity Organization Society, a building for 

 the joint use of the societies, on the corner of Fourth 

 Avenue and Twenty -second Street, to be known as the 

 United Charities Building, which cost, with the 

 ground, $700,000. Dedicated March 6, 1893. 



Zessler, Henry, of Philadelphia, Pa., bequests to in- 

 stitutions in the Methodist Church, $80,000 ; also to 

 the Methodist Hospital his residuary estate. 



Lafon, Thomas, colored, of New Orleans, La., be- 

 quests to local and State charitable institutions, in 

 sums of $5,000 to $20,000, the greater part of his es- 

 tate, estimated to be worth from $400,000 to $600,000. 

 Leiter, L. Z., of Chicago, 111., gift to the Columbian 

 Memorial Museum, $100,000. See FIELD, MARSHAL. 



Lippincott. William V., of Philadelphia, Pa., bequests 

 to the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Mathias, 

 $33,500; the Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church, $15,000; to sixteen denominational and pub- 

 lic institutions, $5,000 each : to four institutions, con- 

 ditionally, $5,000 each ; ana to the Protestant Episco- 

 pal Hospital, the residue of his estate, if any. 



Lord, Helen A., of Philadelphia, Pa., bequests for 

 specific charitable endowments, $10,500. 



Low, Abiel Abbott, of Brooklyn, N. Y. See OBITU- 

 ARIES, AMERICAN. 



Low, Beth, President of Columbia College, gift to 

 the Phillips Brooks Memorial fund of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, $5,000. 



Lyman, E. H. E., of New York city, gift to the 

 city of Northampton, Mass., an Acad'emy of Music 

 costing $100,000, accepted Feb. 7. 



March, Mrs. Mary T., of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., be- 

 quests to Porter Academy, Charleston, 8. C., $10,000; 

 Bellevue Hospital, New York city, $10,000 ; Louise 

 Home, Washington, D. C., $10,000; and Grace 

 Church, New York city, for erection of" John Payne 

 March Memorial Hospital," residue of her estate. 



Metcalf, Jesse, of Providence, R. I., gift to the 

 Rhode Island School of Design, a new building ; dedi- 

 cated Oct. 24, 1893. 



Montgomery, Alexander, of San Francisco, bequest to 

 the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Pacific, 

 greater part of estate, estimated at $3,000,000. 



Page, Mrs. Thomas Nelson, of Washington, D. C., 

 gift, to the Chicago Institute, the gallery of pictures 

 collected by her first husband, Henry Field; value, 

 $300,000. The paintings are to be kept together in a 

 special " Henry Field Memorial Room." 



Palmer, Potter, of Chicago. 111., pledge, to the Board 

 of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exhibi- 

 tion, to erect a permanent Women's Memorial build- 

 ing at a cost of not less than $200,000, as soon as a 

 site is obtained. 



Pardee, S. W., of Hartford, Conn., bequests to Trin- 

 ity College, $25,000, and contingent interest. 



'Peddle, Mrs. Sarah Ogden, of Newark, N.J. (died May 

 29, 1893), bequests to the Peddle Institute in Hights- 

 town, N. J., $100,000 ; the Peddie Memorial Baptist 

 Church in Newark, $50,000; the New Jersey Bap- 

 tist Home, $1,0,000 ; and local institutions, $6.000. The 

 Peddie Institute and Peddie Memorial Church were 

 founded by her husband, Thomas B. Peddie. 



Perkins, Catherine Page, of Boston. Mass., bequests 

 to Harvard University, for a dormitory, as a memo- 

 rial to Paniel, Richard, and William Foster Perkins, 

 $150,000; to the Boston Homoeopathic Hospital, $12,- 

 000 ; to various religious and charitable organizations 

 in Boston, $13,000 ; and to the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Women's 

 Educational and Industrial Union, and the Harvard 



