GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



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Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., anonymous friend 

 of, gift for a chair of Chemistry, $25,000. 



Bemis, J. M., and wife, Colorado Springs, Col., 



fift to Colorado College for a chair of English, 

 10,000. 



Bennett, Joseph M., Philadelphia, Pa., bequest 

 to University of Pennsylvania for its proposed col- 

 lege for women, property valued at $500,000. 



Berea College, Kentucky, friends of, gifts, 

 $59,000. 



Berk, Jacob, New York city, bequests to five 

 Hebrew charitable institutions, each $1,000. 



Bigelow, Hannah E., Marlboro, Mass., bequests 

 to local educational and charitable institutions for 

 immediate use, $18,500, and after two years the 

 residue of her estate. 



Bissell, Martin C., Joliet, 111. (died in 1888), be- 

 quest, available by order of the court, to the Gen- 

 eral Convention of the Church of the New Jerusa- 

 lem, his residuary estate of more than $100,000. 



Blackstone, Timothy B., Chicago, 111., gift to 

 the Blackstone Memorial Library built by him, a 

 second endowment of $100,000. 



Blaine, Mrs. Emmons, Chicago, 111., gift to the 

 University of Chicago for a branch for public- 

 school teachers, $250,000. 



Bowker, Mrs. Sarah Lanison, Newton, Mass., 

 bequest to Maverick Congregational Church of East 

 Boston, $5,000. 



Brackett, Nancy, Quincy, Mass., bequests to the 

 American Unitarian Association of Boston, $3,000, 

 and the Quincy City Hospital, $4,000. 



Bradlee, J. Putnam, Boston, bequests, made 

 available by the death of his sister, to the Kinder- 

 garten for the Blind, Massachusetts General Hos- 

 pital, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Mas- 

 sachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital and Perkins In- 

 stitution for the Blind, each $25,000 ; Free Hospi- 

 tal for Women, New England Hospital for Women 

 and Children, and Society for the Relief of Aged 

 and Destitute Clergymen, each $20,000 ; Home for 

 Aged Couples and Hospital Cottages for Children, 

 Baldwinsville, each $10,000 ; and seven other insti- 

 tutions, $20,000 in all, $225,000. 



Brewster, Eugene A., Newburg, N. Y., bequests 

 to St. Luke's Hospital, $5,000, and St. George's 

 Church, $3,000. 



Brooks, Horatio G., heirs of, Dunkirk, N. Y., 

 gift to Young Men's Association, the Brooks home- 

 stead, valued at $150,000. 



Brown, George A., Boston, bequests to mission- 

 ary, Presbyterian, Protestant Episcopal, and educa- 

 tion institutions, an aggregate of $12,550. 



Brown, John Nicholas, Providence, R. 1., gift 

 to trustees of Public Library building, an additional 

 sum of $45,000. 



Brown, Mrs. Julia Elizabeth, New York city, 

 bequests to American Bible Society, American 

 Tract Society, and St. Luke's Hospital," each $5,000; 

 and the Women's Hospital, Children's Aid Society, 

 Hospital for Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, 

 and the Society of St. Johnsland, each $2,500. 



Brown, Mrs. Sophia Raymond. New York city, 

 bequests to six Protestant Episcopal institutions in 

 New York and Connecticut, each $5,000. 



Bruce, Catharine Wolfe, New York city, gifts 

 to Columbia University for a lectureship in astron- 

 omy, $5,000 ; the Yerkes Observatory, a photo- 

 graphic telescope, cost $7,000 ; Universitv of Chi- 

 cago, for its astronomical work, $1,500 outright and 

 $15,000 conditionally. 



Brunot, Felix R., Pittsburg, Pa., bequests to 

 the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church, $60,000 ; Western 

 Pennsylvania Hospital, $45,000 ; Western Pennsyl- 

 vania University, $30,000; Divinity School of the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church, $30,000 ; Ladies' Alle- 





gheny Relief Society, $20,000; American Church 

 Missionary Society, $10,000 ; Evangelical Education 

 Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, $ 10,- 

 000 ; St. James's Church, Pittsburg, $10,000 ; Young 

 Men's Christian Association of Pittsburg, $10,000 ; 

 Homoeopathic and Allegheny General Hospitals 

 and the Church Home, each $5,000 ; and other in- 

 stitutions, $7,000 in all, $237.000. 



Buck, Mrs. Charlotte S., Brooklyn, N. Y., be- 

 quests to American Missionary Society, Young 

 Men's Christian Association, Young Women's Chris- 

 tian Association, Eye and Ear Hospital, and Church 

 of the Pilgrims, each $5,000 ; other institutions, 

 $8,000 ; and to twenty institutions the reversion of 

 $100,000 in equal shares. 



Buckminster. W. B., gift to Harvard University 

 for scholarship, $5,000. 



Bnrnham, Williams and Co., Philadelphia, gift 

 to the University of Pennsylvania the $10,000 lo- 

 comotive exhibited at the World's Columbian Ex- 

 position in 1893. 



Burroughs, S. Maineville, London, England, 

 bequests to the village of Medina, N. Y. (his old 

 home), land for a public park, and to the First Pres- 

 byterian Church there, $25,000. 



" Blirt, Hannah, New York, bequests to the Pres- 

 byterian Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies, 

 Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, and Presby- 

 terian Board of Foreign Missions, the reversion of 

 $15,000 in equal parts. 



Carnegie, Andrew, New York and Pittsburg, 



ifts for the benefit of employees of the Carnegie 

 teel Company, at Homestead, Pa., an institution 

 combining the features of a library, music hall, and 

 clubhouse, cost $300,000 ; to complete the Ginter 

 Memorial building for the Virginia Mechanics' In- 

 stitute, $10,000 ; and to the Town Council of Dum- 

 fries, Scotland, for a public library, $50,000. 



Catherine (Drexel), Mother, gift to the Order 

 of Benedictine Sisters, a cut-stone sanitarium and 

 bath house at Cascade, in the Black Hills. 



Central Cuban Relief Committee, appointed 

 by President McKinley, gifts to, cash $200,000; and 

 provisions and supplies of about equal value. 



Chicago, University of, Easter gifts from friends, 

 an aggregate of $320,000, duplicated by John D. 

 Rockefeller under his agreement. 



Clark, Mrs. Hannah, Elkhart, Ind., gift to the 

 public, the Clark Homoeopathic Hospital and Train- 

 ing School for Surgeons and Nurses ; cost, upward 

 of $15,000. 



Clark, Jeremiah, Lowell, Mass., bequests to re- 

 ligious institutions, $25,000. 



Clark, William N., Worcester, Mass., bequests 

 to institutions in Worcester and Rutland, $5,000. 



Codman, Miss Caroline S., Bristol, R. I., be- 

 quests to Protestant Episcopal institutions, $6,500. 



Cogley, Mrs. Thomas J., Madison, Ind., gift to 

 Hanover College for a chair of Physics, $20,000. 



Colby, Mrs. Anna S., New York city, bequests to 

 local charitable and Baptist institutions, an aggre- 

 gate of $18,000. 



Columbia University, New York city, two 

 friends of, gifts for special books for the library, 

 $5,000 and $7,500. 



Congregational Home Missionary Society, 

 New York city, gift from an unnamed woman of 

 South Framingham, Mass., $10,000. 



Corcoran, Rev. William J., South Boston, be- 

 quest, made available by decree of court on contest, 

 to the Carney Hospital, for a convalescents' home at 

 Dedham, all his estate of $50,000 excepting a small 

 personal legacy. 



Croft, Caroline, Boston, bequests for the dis- 

 covery of a cure for consumption and cancer, $100,- 

 000 ; and to the Museum of Fine Arts, available on 

 the death of her husband, $100,000. 



