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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



Straus, Isidor, New York, gift toward a pro- 

 posed fund of $1,000,000 for Hebrew educational 

 purposes in New York, $10,000. 



Sumlaj -school Children of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church, gifts to the Dr. William S. 

 Langford Memorial fund, $81,761. 



Sntro. Adolph. San Francisco, Cal., bequest to 

 Yassar College, $10,000. lie left a very large estate, 

 and bv a trust clause in his will the San Miguel and 

 Cliff House ranches are directed to be managed for 

 ten years, and then to be conveyed to trustees, who 

 are "required to hold the property until after the 

 death of the Sutro children. The trustees are then 

 to sell the property and apply the funds so realized 

 for such oharftta, institutions of learning and sci- 

 ence, and for premiums to be set apart for distin- 

 guished scholarships and scientific discovery and 

 inventions as shall be directed by the executors. It 

 is expressly provided that no priest, preacher, or rab- 

 bi is to have aught to do with the charitable bequests. 



Thayer. Edward C., Keene, N. II., gift to Brown 

 University, Providence, R. I., for free scholarships, 

 $6.500. 



Thomas, Jacob C., Wheeling, W. Ya., bequests 

 to benevolent institutions, $13.000. 



Thomas, Josiah B., Peabody, Mass., bequests to 

 trustees for a public hospital, $50,000; for other 

 purposes. $10.000. 



Thompson, Alice, Ballston Spa, N. Y., bequest to 

 Christ Episcopal Church of that place, $10,000. 



Thompson. James P., Brooklyn, N. Y., bequests 

 to the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, $5,000 ; 

 Society for promoting the Gospel among Seamen, 

 $1.000"; and Mariners 7 Family Asylum, $1,000. 



Thornton. Charles C. G., Gloucester, Mass., be- 

 quests to church and missionary societies in Maine 

 and Massachusetts, $4.000; and to Thornton Acad- 

 emy, Saco, Me., for a school of technology, the re- 

 version of $50,000. 



Thrall, Mrs. S. Maretta, Middletown, N. Y. 

 (see GIFTS AND BEQUESTS in "Annual Cyclopaedia" 

 for 1897). Judge Hirschberg decided her bequest 

 to the hospital invalid, and approved the bequest 

 for a free library ($30,000). 



T ranger, Lewis, Greensburg, Pa., bequests to 

 Lutheran institutions, $5.500. 



Tiickerman, Joseph, Newport, R. I., bequests to 

 two local charitable institutions, each $7,000. 



Tome, Jacob, Port Deposit, Md.. bequest to the 

 Jacob Tome Institute, founded by him and endowed 

 with $2,000,000. the residue of his estate, calculated 

 to yield $2,000,000. 



Tom-oii. Peter C., Philadelphia, Pa., bequest for 

 the care of the sick and worn-out employees of the 

 firm of which he was a member so long as it con- 

 tinues under its present name, the income of his 

 residuary estate. 



University of New York, gifts from friends for 

 medical college, $100,000. 



Viindcrhilt, Cornelius. New York, gifts to the 

 New York Botanical Garden, the entire expense of 

 an exploring and botanical expedition to Puerto 

 Rico. 



Vande venter. Cornelia Stryker, Plainfield, 

 N. .1., beqoMtl to Mope Chapel, Plainfield, and the 

 Presbyterian Church, Bound Brook, each $5,000- 

 Kohlenberg Hospital. Plainfield, $3,000; and the 

 Domestic and Foreign Mis>ionary Societies of the 

 Presbyterian Church, each $2,000." 



Vanwickle. A. S., Haxleton, Pa., bequests to 

 rnneeton University, $45,000; Brown University 

 140,000; and Lafayette College, $30,000. 



Van Womer, Asa. Cincinnati. <jift to the I'ni- 

 versitvof Cincinnati for a library building, $56.000. 



Wallace. William Clay, Newark. N. J., daugh- 

 ters of. joint -rjft to Princeton University for scholar- 

 ships, $5,000. 



Warburg, Felix, New York, gift toward a pro- 

 posed fund of $1,000,000 for Hebrew educational 

 purposes in New York, $5.000. 



Waring, George E., Jr., New York, friends of 

 the late, gifts to a fund for the benefit of his widow 

 and daughter, $100,000. The beneficiaries have the 

 income during life, and at their death the principal 

 goes to Columbia University to found the Waring 

 Municipal chair. 



Warner, Redwood F., Philadelphia, bequests to 

 the School of Design for Women, $10,000; Ger- 

 mantown Dispensary and Hospital, $5,000. 



Warren, Henry Clark, Cambridge, bequest to 

 Harvard University, all his real estate in Cam- 

 bridge and all his securities, $40,000 from the lat- 

 ter to be applied to specific purposes in the uni- 

 versity ; estimated value of bequest, nearly $1,- 

 000,000. 



Warren, Nathan B., Troy, N. Y., bequests to 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross 

 of that city, $240,000, and to Trinity College, Hart- 

 ford, Conn., $10,000. 



Watson, Mrs. Eliza V. G., Detroit, bequests to 

 local institutions, $7,500. 



Webb, W. Seward, M. D., New York city, gift for 

 tlfc sick and wounded of the First Vermont Infan- 

 try, $5,000. 



Webb, Mrs. Dr. W. Seward, gift to the Protes- 

 tant Episcopal Diocese of Vermont, a fully equipped 

 parish house at Shelburne Farms. 



Webber, Frances E., Boston, bequest to Bates 

 College, $5,000. 



Webster, Joseph, Carroll, Iowa, bequest to 

 Western College, Toledo, Iowa, $30,000. 



Wells, Mrs. Ann P., Boston, bequests to the 

 American Unitarian Association, $10,000; Massa- 

 chusetts Homoeopathic Hospital for two free beds. 

 $10,000 ; Harvard University for a new scholarship. 

 $10,000; Warren Street Chapel, Home for Aged 

 Colored Women, Women's Educational and Indus- 

 trial Union, and Home for Aged Couples, each 

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

 Women, Massachusetts Society, and District Nurs- 

 ing Association, each $3,000; and the Perkins In- 

 stitution for the Blind and the Industrial School 

 for Crippled and Deformed Children, each $2,000. 



W r ells, David Ames, Norwich, Conn., bequests 

 to the public library of Springfield, Mass., his 

 large private library, and, conditionally, to the 

 Springfield Library, Harvard University, and Wil- 

 liams College, his residuary estate in equal parts. 



Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., gift from 

 a friend, a large and costly telescope, and a pledge 

 to erect a suitable building for it. 



Wendell, Jacob, New York city, bequests to 

 Harvard University, $5,000; Home" for Old Men 

 and Aged Couples and Home for Incurables, both 

 in Xew York, each $1,000; and Portsmouth At he- 

 men m, for books, $500. 



Wentworth, Arioch, Boston, gifts to Dover, 

 N. H., Home for the Aged and to the Children's 

 Home Association, $5,000. 



Wetmore, Mrs. Fanny C., Farrington, Conn., 

 bequests of her husband made available by her 

 death, to the Farrington public library $22.000 and 

 the American Missionary Association $7.000. 



Whitewright, William, New York city, bequest 

 to the Presbyterian Hospital, $50.000. 



Widener," Peter A. B., Philadelphia, Pa., gift 1<> 

 the public library, a collection of 500 books, con 

 taining many choice specimens of incunabula tha 1 . 

 were sought by European libraries, for which h<t 

 paid $28.000. See GIFTS AND BEQUESTS in "Annual 

 Cyclopaedia" for 1897. 



Wilder, Charles T., Wellesley, Mass., bcqn. 

 available by the distribution of his residuary estate, 

 to Mount Holyoke College, $100,000, and Wellesley 



