GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



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Armstrong, Thomas, Plattsburg, N. Y. (died 

 in 1895), bequest to Union College, Schenectady, 

 for endowment of chair of Sociology, annual 

 prizes, and scholarships, an estate now valued 

 at $200,000, made available by decision of the 

 Court of Appeals on contest. 



Arnold, Howard Payson, Boston, gift to Em- 

 manuel Church, in memory of his wife, a large 

 stained-glass window, representing Christian at 

 the Palace Beautiful, cost $5,000. 



Atwater, Mrs. E. S., Poughkeepsie, N. Y., class 

 of '77, gift to Vassar College for the infirmary, 

 $12,000. 



Austin, Edward, Boston, bequests to Harvard 

 University, $500,000; Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, $400,000; Radcliffe College, Roanoke 

 College, and Tuskegee Normal and Industrial 

 School, each $30,000; other public purposes, $110,- 

 000 in all, $1,100,000, made available by compro- 

 mise of heirs and probate of will, March 23, 1899. 



Ayer, Frederick, New York, gift to the Young 

 Men's Christian Association of Lowell, Mass., 

 $5,000. 



Baker, Melissa, Baltimore, bequests to char- 

 itable and religious institutions, $7,400. 



Baldwin, Dwight H., Cincinnati, bequests to 

 the Home and Foreign Missionary Societies of 

 the Presbyterian Church, each $225,000. 



Ballard, William H., Indianapolis, Ind., gift 

 for the benefit of the homeless office girls of that 

 city, the Bertha Ballard Home, cost $25,000. 



Barbadoes, Frederick G., Washington (a 

 negro of large means), bequests to each of five 

 institutions for the benefit of his race, $1,000; to 

 six others, each $500; and to Tuskegee Univer- 

 sity, Alabama, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 

 and Manassas Institute, Virginia, the residue of 

 his estate in equal parts. 



Barker. Ezra, Stratham, N. H., bequest to the 

 local Baptist society, $10,000. 



Barry, Mrs. William I., Passaic, N. J., gifts 

 to First Presbyterian Church, $10,000; Second 

 Church, $2,000; Young Men's Christian Associa- 

 tion, $3,000. 



Bates, Elizabeth H., M.D., Port Chester, 

 N. Y., bequest to the medical department of the 

 University of Michigan, her personal and real 

 properties, aggregating $114,500, for a professor- 

 ship of Diseases of Women and Children, on con- 

 dition that the university receive female students. 

 The university accepted the condition in 1899. 



Beecher, Prof. Charles E., Sheffield Scientific 

 School of Yale University, gift to the university 

 for the Peabody Museum, his collections of fauna 

 and geological specimens, numbering upward of 

 100,000 pieces, and pronounced by experts to be 

 invaluable. 



Benjamin, Park. See United States Naval 

 Academy, in this article. 



Bennett, Thomas G., New Haven, gift to Yale 

 School of Fine Arts, $5,000. 



Benoist, Joseph, Kansas City, Mo., bequests 

 to charitable institutions in that city and St. 

 Louis, a total of $150,000. 



Berea College, Berea, Ky., gifts from friends 

 to secure pledge of $50,000 from Dr. Daniel K. 

 Pearsons, $150,000. 



Bernheim, I. W., and Bernard, Louisville, 

 Ky., joint gift to the city, a bronze statue of 

 Thomas Jefferson by Ezekiel, cost $50,000. 



Berry, George B., Baltimore, bequests to Wom- 

 an's College, $50,000; other institutions, $3,500; 

 contested. 



Berwind, Edward J. See United States Naval 

 Academy, in this article. 



Bigelow, Albert S., Boston, gift to the Church 

 of the Advent, memorial window, cost $10,500. 



Billings, Robert C., Boston, bequests to Har- 

 vard University, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, and Boston Museum of Fine Arts, each 

 $100,000; Institute of Technology (special fund), 

 Massachusetts General Hospital, New England 

 Hospital for Women and Children, Massachusetts 

 Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Children's Hospital, 

 each $50,000; Perkins Institution for the Blind, 

 American Unitarian Association, Boston Young 

 Men's Christian Union, Home for Aged Men, and 

 Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute, each 

 $25,000; Tuskegee Normal School, Atlanta Uni- 

 versity, and sixteen public and charitable insti- 

 tutions in and around Boston, each $10,000; and 

 to his executors, for disposition to such chari- 

 table purposes as they may select, over $600,000, 

 making his total bequests $1,500,000. 



Elaine, Mrs. Emmons, Chicago, gifts for the 

 establishment of two educational institutions in 

 that city, an estimated aggregate of $1,000,000. 

 The largest is a School of Pedagogy, comprising 

 a kindergarten, primary and grammar schools, 

 high school, and junior college, located near Lin- 

 coln Park; the other is a thoroughly appointed 

 school for the children of the poor, on Milwaukee 

 Avenue. Both institutions will be opened early 

 in 1900. Mrs. Blaine also gave $25,000 to defray 

 the expenses of the fourteen members of the 

 faculty of the School of Pedagogy on a prepara- 

 tory study tour of Europe. 



Blair, John Insley, Blairstpwn, N. J., bequests 

 to the Blair Presbyterian Academy, $115,000; 

 Presbyterian Church at Blairstown, $10,000; 

 church at Oxford, $15,000; Methodist Church, 

 Blairstown, $1,000. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Blake, Anna S. C., Santa Barbara, Cal., be- 

 quests to trustee for a home for convalescents and 

 invalids, her " Miradero " estate and $80,000 for 

 its support; and the Santa Barbara Cottage Hos- 

 pital, Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital, and 

 Massachusetts General Hospital, each $10,000. 



Borden, C. D., New York, gift to the new 

 gymnasium fund of Phillips Andover Academy, 

 $20,000. 



Bourne, Emily H., New York, gift to Barnard 

 College for scholarships, $6,000. 



Bradley, Mrs. Elizabeth, New Haven, be- 

 quests, made available by the death of her broth- 

 er, Josephus Forbes, to St. Paul's Church and the 

 Seamen's Bethel, both of that city, an estate 

 that yielded the former $306,397 and the latter 

 $153,796. 



Bradley, Mrs. Lydia, founder of Bradley Poly- 

 technic Institute, Peoria, 111., gift to the institu- 

 tion, deeds for all of her property in Peoria 

 County, estimated at more than $1,000,000. She 

 had previously given 20 acres of ground and 

 $500,000 for buildings and equipment. 



Brimbecom, Mrs. Mary E., Boston, bequests 

 to State and local institutions, $3,300 free and 

 $5,000 conditional. 



Brinton, Daniel G., gift to the University of 

 Pennsylvania, his great collection of books, pam- 

 phlets, and manuscripts relating to the aboriginal 

 languages of North and South America, and near- 

 ly 200 volumes of bound pamphlets on the eth- 

 nology of American Indians. See OBITUARIES, 

 AMERICAN. 



Brown University, Providence, R. I., gifts 

 from three friends, names withheld, $25,000, $20,- 

 000, and $20,000 respectively. 



Bruce, Catherine Wolfe, New York, gift to 

 Columbia University, for special astronomical in- 

 vestigations, $10,000. 



Bush, W. H., Chicago, 111., gift for a Meth- 

 odist old folks' home, in that city, a building 

 site and $20,000. 



