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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



Seidl, Anton, Memorial Committee, gift to 

 Columbia University, for a fellowship in music, 

 $12,000. 



Senff, Charles H., New York, gift to Colum- 

 bia University to equip expedition up the Nile, 

 $5,000. 



Seventh-day Adventists, General Confer- 

 ence of. gift from an English friend, $405,000. 



Severance, Louis H., New York, gifts to Ober- 

 lin College, more than $03,000. 



Sharpe, Lucien, Providence, R. I., heirs of, 

 gift to Brown University, unconditioned, $10,000. 



Sheppard, Dr. Robert D., treasurer of North- 

 western University, gift to the university for the 

 new g3 r mnasium fund, $15.000. 



Simmons, E. C., Kenosha, Wis., gift to the 

 city for a free library building, $100,000; also 

 a promise to furnish it with 25,000 volumes. 



Simmons, John, Boston, bequest to trustees, 

 for the establishment of a college for women, 

 a portion of his estate, which, under investment 

 for about twenty-five years, reached the sum of 

 $2,000,000. and thus became available in 1899. 



Simpkins, John, Yarmouth, Mass., family of 

 the late, gift to the Lawrence Scientific School, 

 Harvard University, $20,000. 



Sinclair, Charles A., Brookline, Mass., bequest 

 to the Bethlehem (N. H.) Methodist Church, 

 $5,000. 



Sinton, David, Cincinnati, gift to the Univer- 

 sity of Cincinnati for endowment, $100,000. 



Skinner, William, Holyoke, Mass., gift to 

 public library building fund, $10,000. 



Smith, Charles Frederick, Boston, bequests 

 to the Beverly Historical Society, Beverly Fuel 

 Society, Massachusetts Societies for the Preven- 

 tion of Cruelty to Animals and to Children, 

 Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, 

 Perkins Institution for the Blind, Industrial 

 School for Crippled and Deformed Children, Home 

 for Aged Couples, Boston Dispensary, and Asso- 

 ciated Charities of Boston, the reversion in equal 

 shares of an estate of $1,000,000. 



Smith, Elista D., Menasha, Wis., bequests to 

 several colleges and religious associations, annui- 

 ties of from $500 to $1,000 each. 



Smyth, Frederick, Manchester, N. H., bequests 

 to Dartmouth College, New Hampshire Home 

 Missionary Society, Franklin Street Church, City 

 Mission, and Smith Library, each $5,000; State 

 Industrial School, Children's Home, State Or- 

 phans' Home, and State Agricultural College, 

 $2,000; and New Hampshire Bible Society, $1,000. 

 See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Snyder, Prof. Edward, Pacific Beach, Cal., 

 gift to the University of Illinois, where he for- 

 merly taught, to aid worthy students, the re- 

 version of $125,000. 



Somerville, Maxwell, Philadelphia, gift to 

 the University of Pennsylvania, $600,000. 



Spalding, Right Rev. John L., Bishop of Pe- 

 oria, 111., gift to his diocese, a commercial, clas- 

 sical, and manual-training school, cost $50,000. 



Stanford, Mrs. Leland, San Francisco, gift to 

 Leland Sanford Junior University, deeds convey- 

 ing the bulk of her wealth in stocks and real es- 

 tate. The first transaction, May 31, transferred 

 property of a face value of $38,000,000 and a cash 

 market value of $15,000,000, and the second, June 

 15, comprised two large tracts of recently pur- 

 chased grazing land, with valuable water rights, 

 which were incorporated with the famous Vina 

 Ranch, now owned by the university. These gifts 

 swell the endowment of the university to $45,000,- 

 000, calculated on the basis of a 5-per-cent. re- 

 turn from the properties in which the Stanford 

 fortune was invested. The face value of the 



securities constituting the bulk of the invest- 

 ments is about $80,000,000, and any increase in 

 their market price will enhance the total endow- 

 ment, already the largest of any privately estab- 

 lished institution in the world. 



Stedman, Mrs. Lucy, gift to Vassar College 

 for new biological laboratory, $25,000. 



Stevens, Mrs. Martha B., Hoboken, N. J., be- 

 quests to Protestant Episcopal institutions, 

 $15,000. 



Stewart, Herbert, New York, bequest to Yale 

 University for a special scientific fund, $50,000. 



Stickler, Joseph W., an,d wife, Orange, N. J., 

 gift to trustees of the Free Library, funds for 

 erection of a library building. 



Stillman, James, New York, gift to Harvard 

 University for an infirmary, $50,000. 



Stokes, Caroline Phelps and Olivia Phelps, 

 ^STew York, joint gift to Yale University, funds 

 for a new administration building, cost $40,000; 

 also the former, gift to Smith College, for a 

 scholarship, $5,000. 



Sullivan, Mrs. Alice M., Providence, gift to 

 Brown University Library for books on Church 

 history, $10,000. 



Sunderland, Mass., public library of, gift 

 from friend, name withheld, $9,000. 



Swan, Margaret A., New York, bequest to 

 trustees for First Presbyterian Church, Geneva, 

 N. Y., $20,000. 



Syracuse, University of, gifts from trustees 

 to make up deficiency, $28,000. 



Talcott, James, New York, gift to Mount 

 Holyoke College for an arboretum, $10,000. 



Tammany Hall, New York, gift for relief of 

 poor, $10,000. 



Taylor, William H., Brookline, Mass., be- 

 quests to American Board of Commissioners for 

 Foreign Missions, $15,000; American Missionary 

 Association and American Home Missionary So- 

 ciety, each $10,000; and Rollins College, Florida, 

 $5,000. 



Taylor, William Y., Philadelphia, bequests to 

 local charities, $21,000. 



Temple of Emanu-El, New York, gifts from 

 friends for a sisterhood home, $50,000. 



Thayer, Mrs. Eliza De Wolff, Newton, Mass., 

 bequests to four missionary boards, each $5,000; 

 to United Congregational Church, Newton, and 

 three of the missionary societies, the residue of 

 her estate; and to Brown University, the valu- 

 able library of her late husband, Dr. Thatcher 

 Thayer. 



Theosophical Society, American Section of 

 the, gift from friend, name withheld, $50,000. 



Thompson, Mrs. F. F., New York, gift to new 

 building fund of Woman's Hospital, $50,000. 



Thompson, Mrs. W. R. See Pratt, Mrs. 

 Charles M. 



Thompson, Robert M. See United States 

 Naval Academy. 



Thorndike, Mrs. Delia D., Boston, bequests, 

 direct and in reversion, to twenty benevolent, re- 

 ligious, and educational institutions, an aggre- 

 gate of $39,000. 



Thome, Samuel, New York, gift to the New 

 York Zoological Society, $5,000. 



Tibballs, Sarah J., New York, gift to the Uni- 

 versity Place Presbyterian Church, a furnished 

 35-roomed building at Ocean Grove, N. J., for a 

 house of rest for the working women of the con- 

 gregation. 



Tilden, Walter H., Philadelphia, bequest to 

 the Home for Aged Couples, on condition that it 

 takes his name, the bulk of his estate of $200,000. 



Tilford, Charles E., New York, bequests to 

 the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- 



