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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



Bushnell, Asa S., Springfield, Ohio, gifts to 

 the Ohio Masonic Home and the Young Men's 

 Christian Association of Springfield, each $10,000. 



Callaghan, Patrick, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., be- 

 quests to the Society for the Protection of Desti- 

 tute Roman Catholic Children, convent at Morri- 

 sania, Foundling Asylum of the Sisters of Char- 

 ity of New York City, Home of the Good Shep- 

 herd in same city, and St. Mary's Church in 

 Poughkeepsie, an aggregate of $175,000. 



Campbell, T. Pearsall, East Orange, N. J., gift 

 to St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church there, 

 $5,000. 



Carnegie. Andrew, New York, gifts, many 

 under conditions that were agreed to or fulfilled 

 during the year; the Carnegie Institute, Pitts- 

 burg, Pa., for enlargement of building, $1,750.000; 

 Cooper Union, New York, for founding a mechan- 

 ics' day art school, $300,000; the following cities 

 for a public library: Washington, D. C., $350,000; 

 Atlanta, Ga., $125,000; Lincoln, Neb., $75,000; 

 McKeesport, Pa., $50,000; Connellsville, Pa., $50,- 

 000: Steubenville, Ohio, $50,000; East Liverpool, 

 Ohio, $50,000; Fort Worth, Texas, $50,000; Em- 

 poria, Kan., $30,000; Davenport, Iowa, $50,000; 

 Cheyenne. Wyo., $50,000; Austin, Texas, $50,000; 

 San* Diego, Gal., $50,000; and Duluth, Minn., $50,- 

 000 : the Pennsylvania State College, for a library 

 building, $100,000; Stevens Institute of Technol- 

 ogy, Hoboken, N. J., for new laboratory build- 

 ing, $50,000; Mechanics' Institute, New York, 

 $25,000; Newport, Ky., for a public library, $20,- 

 000; Tucson, Arizona, for public library, $25,000; 

 Virginia Mechanics' Institute, Richmond, for new 

 building, $10,000; ladies of the "X. X. I.," Deni- 

 son, Texas, for first woman's club building in the 

 State, $1,700; New York Zoological Society, for 

 building fund, $5,000; and Public Library, Erie, 

 Pa., $5,000. This list, which aggregates $3,282,- 

 000, is not a complete one, comprising only his 

 most notable gifts; probably other similar bene- 

 factions amounted to $1,000,000 more. In addi- 

 tion to these gifts, Mr. Carnegie made several to 

 foreign institutions, amounting to about $500,000, 

 of which the most conspicuous one was that of 

 $250,000 to Birmingham (England) University to 

 promote scientific education. His total gifts and 

 pledges in the year amounted to about $5,000,000. 



Catholic University of America, Washing- 

 ton, D. C., gifts from friends, funds for erection 

 and equipment of Holy Cross College, dedicated 

 Oct. 12, and the Monastery and College of the 

 Holy Land, dedicated Sept. 17; also from the 

 Catholic Knights of America, for a chair of Eng- 

 lish Literature, $50,000, and the Catholic Knights 

 of Columbus, for a chair of American History, 

 $50.000. 



Chapelle, Archbishop P. L., New Orleans, gift 

 from friends, an archiepiscopal residence, cost 

 $18,000. 



Chesebrough, Nicholas H., M. D., Summit, 

 N. J., bequests to seven denominational institu- 

 tions, each $500; Methodist General Hospital 

 Brooklyn, $5,000; First Methodist Church, Sum- 

 mit, $1,000; and to trustees for a Chesebrough 

 Protestant Orphan Asylum at Summit the resi- 

 due of his estate, amounting to over $200,000. 



Chicago Art Institute, friends of, gift to ex- 

 tinguish debt, $100,000. See White, Mrs. Cather- 

 ine M.. in this article. 



Chipman, George W., Boston, bequests to 

 various Baptist institutions, the reversion of 

 $50,000. 



Cisco, Mrs. Caroline A., New York, bequest to 

 the Church of the Holy Communion, $10,000. 



Clapp, Lucius, Randolph, Mass., gift to the 

 Brockton Hospital, $5,000. 



Clark, Mary J., New York, bequests to Bap- 

 tist institutions, $5,000. 



Clayton, George W., Denver, Col., bequest to 

 the city for an orphans' college, $1,000,000. 



Clemmons, E. T., Forsyth County North Caro- 

 lina, bequest to the Moravian Church for new 

 edifice and schoolhouse, $100,000. 



Columbia University, New York, gifts from 

 friends, 63 new scholarships at $5,000 each; for 

 the library, $14,821; total gifts of the year for 

 specific purposes, $73,794; increase of permanent 

 endowment, $490,417. See also Curtis, George 

 William ; Dyckman, Isaac M. ; Low, Seth ; Proud- 

 fit, Alexander M.; Schurz, Carl; Seidl, Anton; 

 Seuff, Charles H., in this article. 



Converse, John H., Philadelphia, gifts to the 

 University of Vermont, for endowment of chair 

 of Commerce and Economics, $50,000; for new 

 gymnasium fund, $5,000. 



Coolidge, Prof. Archibald, Harvard Univer- 

 sity, joint gift with his father to the University 

 Library, a collection of 10,000 volumes treating 

 of the Crusades. 



Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson, Boston, gift to 

 Harvard University for debating prizes, $5,000. 



Cooper, Rev. Edmund D., D. D., Astoria, N. Y., 

 bequests for theological scholarships to the Uni- 

 versity of the South, General Theological Semi- 

 nary in New York, and the Washatah Home in 

 Wisconsin, each $5,000. 



Cooper, Edward, and Abram S. Hewitt, New 

 York city, joint gift to Cooper Union, $200,000. 



Crane, Job S., Newark, N. J., bequests to local 

 charitable institutions, $10,000, and residue of his 

 estate. 



Crary, Mrs. Horace H., Binghamton, N. Y., 

 bequests to the Woman's Missionary Society of 

 the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Meth- 

 odist Episcopal Hospital in Brooklyn, each $25,- 

 000; Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, $15,000; and the Missionary 

 Society and Wyoming Annual Conference of the 

 same church, each $10,000. 



Crocker, Mrs. George C., San Francisco, Cal., 

 gift to the Hopkins Art Institute in that city, 

 the Benizoni marble group of statuary, The Fall 

 of Pompeii, for which the late Mr. Crocker paid 

 $20,000. 



Croker, Richard, New York, gift for the poor, 

 $5,000. 



Cumston, Charles McLoughlin, Boston, gift 

 to town of Monmouth, Me., funds for a com- 

 bined town hall, library, and opera house, esti- 

 mated cost $20,000. 



Cupples, Samuel, St. Louis, gifts to Washing- 

 ton University, a mechanical and electrical en- 

 gineering building, cost $150,000; building for civil 

 engineering and architecture, cost $100,000; and 

 for endowment of the School of Engineering and 

 Agriculture, $150,000. 



Curtis, George William, Memorial Commit- 

 tee, gift to Columbia University, for a fellowship 

 in political science, $10,000. 



Daly, Charles P., New York, bequests to the 

 American Geographical Society, a number of his- 

 torical relics, his books and pamphlets on geo- 

 graphical, ethnological, and anthropological sub- 

 jects, and $5,000; the University of the City of 

 New York, his books and pamphlets relating to 

 the law or literature; the New York Historical 

 Society, $5,000; Northern Dispensary of New 

 York, $5,000; New York Association for Improv- 

 ing the Condition of the Poor, $5,000; Metropoli- 

 tan Museum of Art, all his works of art which he 

 had given to his wife, who died before him; and 

 the New York Botanical Society, the reversion of 

 $20,000. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



