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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 





Hackley, Mrs. C. B., New York, gift to the 

 Unitarian Association for a school for boys, her 

 estate at Tarrytown. She also agreed to support 

 it for five years. 



Halstead, John, New York, bequests to eight 

 local institutions, each $2,000: to two others, 

 each $2,500; and to Cooper Union, the reversion 

 of $24,000. 



Hamilton College, Clinton. N. Y.. gift from 

 friend, name withheld, funds for a new Hall ot 

 Philosophy. 



Hanna.' H. M.. Cleveland, Ohio, gift to Medi- 

 cal college of Western Reserve University for a 

 chair of Medical Jurisprudence, $12,000. 



Harding. Mrs. Charles L., Cambridge, Mass., 

 bequest for a home for aged couples, $15,000. A 

 similar sum was received from Mrs. Josiah M. 

 Fiske for a home for aged men. The two funds 

 were consolidated, and the Cambridge Homes for 

 Old People were erected at a total cost of about 

 $63,000. 



Harkness, Mrs. Anna M., Cleveland, gift to 

 the College of Women of Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity for a chapel, $30.000. 



Harlan, James, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, gift 

 to the Iowa Wesleyan University, $10,000. See 

 OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Harris, N. W., Chicago, gift to the Chicago 

 Training School for Missions, for an additional 

 building similar to the present Harris Hall, 

 $25,000. 



Harvard University, gift from graduates in 

 New York city, for a university boathouse on 

 Charles river, $27.500. 



Haskell, Mrs. Caroline E., Michigan City, Ind., 

 gift by deed to trustees for reversion to Congre- 

 gational and Seventh-Day Adventist institutions 

 in Chicago, Michigan City, and Battle Creek, 

 Mich.; the University of Chicago and Oberlin 

 College; and the Haskell Orphanage, at Battle 

 Creek, her real property, valued at $147,000. 



Hawaii, Christian people of, gift to the Ameri- 

 can Board, to repay cost of missionary work 

 there, $50,000. They also agreed to undertake 

 hereafter the support of their own work and to 

 support similar work carried on in the Philip- 

 pine Islands. 



Hayes, Edgar S., Natick, Mass., bequest to 

 the Leonard Morse Hospital, $5,000. 



Hayward, Mrs. J. Francis, Quincy, Mass., 

 gift to the Quincy City Hospital, $5,000. 



Hebrews of New Hampshire, gifts for erec- 

 tion of first synagogue in the State, $18,500. 



Hemingway, Augustus, Boston, donor of 

 Hemingway Gymnasium to Harvard University, 

 gift to the Harvard University Club, $10,000. 



Herrman, Mrs. Esther, New York, gift to the 

 Scientific Alliance building fund, $10,000. 



Hewitt, Abram S. See Cooper, Edward, in 

 this article. 



Higginson, Henry Lee, Boston, donor of the 

 Soldiers' Field to Harvard University, gift for a 

 war memorial university club building, $150,000. 

 The university corporation gave the site. 



Hillyard, John, Brooklyn, N. Y., bequest to 

 St. Giles's Home for Crippled Children and the 

 Sheltering Arms Nursery, the reversion of about 

 $15.000 each. 



Hilton, William, Boston (died in 1887), be- 

 quest to town of Salisbury for benefit of aged 

 men and women, $50,000; became available by 

 decision of Supreme Court in 1899 on controversy 

 arising from division of the town after donor's 

 death. 



Hingham, O. H., La Crosse, Wis., gift to build- 

 ing fund of new school of science of Ripon (Wis.) 

 College, $15,000. 



Hirsch, Baroness Clara de, Presburg, Hun- 

 gary, bequest to the Baron Hirsch fund of New 

 York city for improving the condition of the 

 Jews, $1,200:000. 



Hobart, Garret Augustus, Paterson, N. J., 

 bequests to the Old Ladies' Home, General Hos- 

 pital, St. Joseph's Hospital, Orphan Asylum, and 

 Children's Day Nursery, all in Paterson, each 

 $5,000. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Holden, Erastus F., Syracuse, N. Y., bequests 

 to Syracuse University for a chair of Astronomy, 

 $25,000; Syracuse Women's and Children's Hos- 

 pital, $5,000; Onondaga County Orphan Asylum, 

 $2,000. 



Hollister, Caroline S., New York, bequests 

 to Ladies' Christian Union, $15,000; Church of 

 the Heavenly Rest, $10,000; Home for Incurables, 

 Women's Hospital, Peabody Home, Bible and 

 Fruit Mission, Infirmary for Women and Chil- 

 dren, Young Women's Christian Association, 

 Protestant Episcopal Orphan Home Asylum, Free 

 Home for Destitute Girls, St. Luke's Home, Eighth 

 Ward Mission for Homeless Boys, Society for 

 the Relief of Destitute Blind, St. Mary's Free 

 Hospital, House of Mercy, Missionary Society for 

 Seamen, and Protestant Episcopal City Mission 

 Society, each $5,000; Howard Mission, $3,000; 

 and an orphan asylum, $1,000 in all, $104,000. 



Hopper, Maria, Philadelphia, gift to Bryn 

 Mawr College, for new scholarship, $10,000. 



Horwitz, Benjamin F., Baltimore, bequest to 

 Johns Hopkins University, $5,000. 



Hosmer, Edward B., Boston, bequest condi- 

 tionally to the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, $50,000. 



Howe, Emily H., New York, gift to the town 

 of Hanover, N. H., for a free public library, resi- 

 dence property valued at $15,000. 



Howell, Benjamin F., Brooklyn, N. Y., gifts 

 to the Eastern District Branch of the Young 

 Men's Christian Association, $20,000; Eastern 

 District Industrial School, $20,000; and Eastern 

 District Hospital and Dispensary, $10,000. 



Hubbard, John E., Montpelier, Vt., bequests 

 to the Kellogg Hubbard Library, which he found- 

 ed, $25,000; Green Mount Cemetery and Chapel, 

 $25,000; and the city of Montpelier, for a public 

 park, his Capital Hill property, estimated value 

 $25,000, and $10,000 toward equipping the park 

 and $50,000 toward maintaining it. 



Huntington, Collis P., New York, gift for a 

 reformatory for colored children, 1,350 acres of 

 land and suitable buildings in Hanover County, 

 Virginia ; to the endowment of the National Acad- 

 emy of Design, $25,000; also, with Mrs. Hunt- 

 ington, gift to the Tuskegee (Ala.) Normal and 

 Industrial Institute, $50,000. 



Hyde, Arbey, Stafford, Conn., bequest to the 

 town library, made available by the death of his 

 sister, Mrs. Annette H. Colton, $25,000. 



Hyde, James H., Jr., New York, gift to the 

 library of the Harvard University Club, $20,000. 



Illinois School of Agriculture and Manual 

 Training, Glenwood, gift from Chicago friend, 

 name withheld, $50,000. 



Ingham, O. H., La Crosse, Wis., gift toward 

 building fund of new school of science for Ripon 

 College, $15,000. 



Ives, Mrs. Willard, Watertown, N. Y., gift to 

 Syracuse University for a chair of the English 

 Bible, $40,000. 



Ivison, David B., New York and Rutherford, 

 N. J., gift to the First Presbyterian Church, 

 Rutherford, a parsonage valued at $7,000. 



James, D. Willis, Madison, N. J., gifts to the 

 borough, funds for erection of a public-library 

 building to cost $60,000, and for its equipment 



