GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



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Atterbury, Mrs. Olivia Fhelps, of New York city, be- 

 quests to various missionary societies for domestic and 

 foreign work, an aggregate of $46,000. 



Avery, Eobert Stanton, of Washington, D. C., bequests 

 to the Smithsonian Institution, for publication of trea- 

 tises on the mechanical laws governing ethereal me- 

 diaries, all but $5,400 of an estate amounting to $120,- 

 00<>. 



Barlow, Allen, of Binghamton, N. Y., bequest for 

 the; establishment of an industrial training school, his 

 entire estate, valued at $100,000. 



Beck, Charles Bathgate, of New York city, bequests 

 to the First Presbyterian Church at West Farms, N. Y., 

 for a new building, $100,000; Home for Incurables, 

 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 

 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 

 and Columbia College, for prizes, each $10,000 ; the 

 Peabody Home for Aged Women, $5,000; and, ex- 

 cepting personal bequests, the remainder of his estate, 

 estimated from $1,500,000 to $5,000,000, to the Society 

 for the Prevention of Crime, the New York Hospital, 

 the Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia College, and the 

 Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church. 

 The will was contested, but the Supreme Court de- 

 clared it valid, Oct. 25, 1894. 



Bennett, Mrs. Harriet, of Buffalo, N. Y., bequests to 

 the Homo30pathic and the General Hospitals of Buf- 

 falo, each $5,000; the Home for the Friendless and 

 Ingleside Home, each $3,500 ; the Children's Aid So- 

 ciety, $5,000 ; Presbyterian institutions, $5,500 ; other 

 institutions, $2,500. 



Bergdoll, Louis, of Philadelphia, Pa., to local 

 charitable and church institutions, chiefly German, 

 $5.500. 



Bernhelmer, Adolph, of New York city, bequests to 

 the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum and the 

 Mount Sinai Hospital, each $10,000, and to other chari- 



ties an agirreofate of $10,000. 

 Biddle, Mrs. Mary f 



Mary C., of Philadelphia, Pa., bequests 

 to the Pennsylvania Hospital, $5,000 ; to the Pennsyl- 

 vania Training School for Feeble-Minded People, 

 $5,000; to the Hahnemann Hospital, $4,500; to the 

 Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, 

 for a scholarship, $1,000 ; and to trustees, for a fund 

 for the relief of indigent women of Philadelphia, the 

 residue of her estate. 



Billings, Frederick, sons of, gift to the Mary Hitchcock 

 Memorial Hospital at Hanover, Vt., $5,000. 



Bird, Francis M. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Blakeman, Birdseye. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Blatz, Valentine, of Milwaukee, Wis., bequests to 

 each of the Protestant, Roman Catholic, and nonsec- 

 tarian charitable institutions in that city, $500 to 

 $3.000. 



Boardman, Airs. Lucy H., of New Haven, Conn., sup- 

 plementary gift to the Board of Education of that 

 city toward the construction of the Manual Training 

 School, $10.000; total gifts for the purpose, $80,000. 



Booth, Samuel, of Brooklyn, N. Y., bequest to the 

 Methodist Episcopal Hospital, $5,000. 



Bowne. Samuel W., and William Hoyt, of New York 

 city, gift to Drew Theological Seminary, a new dormi- 

 tory, completely furnished, cost, $125,000; formally 

 opened Oct. 23, 1894. 



Boyer, John, of Norristown, Pa., bequest to the Hos- 

 pital of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., $5,000. 



Brown, Allen A., of Boston, Mass., gift to Boston 

 Public Library, a remarkably large and costly collec- 

 tion of music and musical literature for publ'ic study 

 and reference in the library building. A room- has 

 been assigned to the collection, from which all musi- 

 cal instruments will be excluded. 



Brown. Mrs. Charles, of Quincy, 111., bequests to 

 tound and maintain a home for the ap-ed poor, her 

 residence and $55,000 ; to the Woodlawn Home for 

 Orphans, $5,000 ; the Industrial Home for Girls at 

 bvanston, 111., $5,000; the Illinois Humane Society, 

 $<o,000; the Louisiana State Society for the Preven- 

 tion of Cruelty to Animals, $45,000; the Massaclm- 

 J Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- 



majs, $15,000: and the Quincy Humane Society, 

 <p 15,000. 



Brown, Edgar Allen, bequest, which became available 

 in 1894, to Swarthmore College, for the library, $5 000. 



Brown, T. Wistar, gift to Haverford College, Penn- 

 sylvania, the income to be used for courses of lectures 

 on biblical subjects, $10,000. 



Bullock, Julia, of Providence, R. I., bequests to chari- 

 table, educational, and religious institutions in Rhode 

 Island, $50,000. 



Bullock, Mrs. Sarah W., of Cincinnati, Ohio, gift to 

 the Board -of Associated Charities, a building that 

 cost $7,000. 



Burnham, Thomas Oliver Hazard Ferry (see obituary 

 in "Annual Cyclopaedia" for 1891), of Boston, 

 Mass., bequest to the town of Essex, Mass., for a town 

 hall, $20,000, and for a public library, $20,000. A 

 previous bequest by Dr. John D. Russ of $5,000 was 

 added to Mr. Burnnam's bequest, and with the total 

 amount ground was bought and a town hall and pub- 

 lic library combined was erected. The building was 

 dedicated on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the in- 

 corporation of the town, Feb. 15, 1894. 



Butterfield, Ealph, M. D., of Kansas City, bequest to 

 Dartmouth College, the residue of his estate, estimated 

 at $165,000, for a professorship in palaeontology, archae- 

 ology, and ethnology. 



Buttrick, Francis, of Waltham, Mass., bequests to 

 Waltham for a public library, $60,000, and for a poor 

 fund, $10,000; to the First Universalist Society, $10,- 

 000 : and for other charitable purposes, $25,000.' 



Carnegie, Andrew, and Henry Fhipps, Jr., of Pitts- 

 burg, Pa., proposed gift for the construction of the 

 largest telescope in the world for Allegheny Observa- 

 tory, the greater part of the estimated cost, $150,000. 

 The instrument is to be 63 feet long, with a lens 50 

 inches in diameter, or 14 inches larger than that of 

 the Lick telescope. 



Chamberlain, Frances Lea, of Philadelphia, Pa., be- 

 quests to the National Museum at Washington, D. C., 

 the collection of gems and quartz crystals inherited 

 from her father ; and to mission and ctiaritable organi- 

 zations of the Protestant Episcopal Church, $15,000. 



Chase, Theodore, of Boston, Mass., bequest to the 

 Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to 

 Animals, $10,000. 



Clark, Caroline, of Philadelphia, Pa., bequests to the 

 Protestant Episcopal City Mission, the reversion of 

 $12,000; to the Home for the Friendless, the rever- 

 sion of $12,000; to the Citv Mission, her city resi- 

 dence ; and to the Society for Prevention of Cruelty 

 to Animals, the residue of her estate, $3,922. 



Clark, Mrs. Eliza A., of Cleveland, Ohio, bequests to 

 Lakeside Hospital of that city, $100,000; the Old 

 Stone Church, $75,000; and the Invalids' Home and 

 the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian 

 Church, each $10,000; the hospital also being made 

 residuary legatee. Mrs. Clark had established Clark 

 Hall for the College for Women of Western Reserve 

 University, at a cost of $100,000. 



Coburn, Nathan P. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Cochran, Mr. and Mrs. William F., of Yonkers, N. Y., 

 gift to the city, a building to be known as St. John's 

 Riverside Hospital, and for maintaining the building 

 and grounds, $50,000. The hospital was dedicated 

 June 28, 1894. 



Coffin, Ann D., of Philadelphia, Pa., bequests to the 

 Baptist Home Missionary Society, $5,000; Children's 

 Home, Atlantic City, N. J., $4,000 ; Society to Protect 

 Children from Cruelty, $4,000 ; Society for Prevention 

 of Cruelty to Animals, $4,000; Philadelphia Home 

 for Incurables, $5,000 ; and 2 Baptist churches, each 

 $1,000. 



Cole, James V., of Warren, R. 1., bequests to the 

 First Baptist Church of Bristol, $5.000 ; the First 

 Baptist Church of North Sumner, $4,000 ; and the 

 Baptist Benevolent Society, $50,000. 



Colt, Mrs. Elizaheth H., of Hartford, Conn., gift, as a 

 memorial to her son, Caldwell Hart Colt, a headquar- 

 ters building with hall and gymnasium for mission 

 work in connection with the Church of the Good 



