GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



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Auchard, David, Helena, Mont., bequest for 

 the building and maintenance of a Masonic 

 Home, his estate of more than 30,000 acres, 

 stocked with choice cattle and thoroughbred 

 horses. 



Aultman, Mrs. Katharine Barren, Canton, 

 Ohio, bequest to that city for a library, $25,000. 



Ayer, Frederick Fanning, New York, gift to 

 Old Ladies' Home, Lowell, Mass., $50,000; Lowell 

 Textile School, $30,000; and Lowell Day Nursery 

 and Lowell Humane Society, each $10,000. 



Babcock, Samuel D., New York, bequests to 

 Christ Church, Riverdale, Calvary Church, and 

 St. Luke's Hospital, each $20,000; the Metropoli- 

 tan Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of 

 Natural History, the Children's Aid Society, and 

 the Young Men's Christian Association, each $15,- 

 000; and the Charity Organization Society, New 

 York Christian Home for Intemperate Men, the 

 Samaritan Home for the Aged, the Sheltering 

 Arms, and St. Luke's Home for Indigent Christian 

 Females, each $2,000. 



Baker, Cyrus 0., Newark, N. J., bequests to 

 the Society for the Relief of Respectable Aged 

 Women, $30,000; Young Men's Christian Associa- 

 tion, $20,000; and Newark Female Charitable 

 Society, Home for the Friendless, Protestant 

 Foster Home, Newark Orphan Asylum, and First 

 Congregational Church, each $10,000. 



Ball, Mrs. Sarah C. B., Galveston, Tex., gift 

 to Austin Theological Seminary, $75,000. 



Banjotti, Paul, Turin, Italy, gift to Brown 

 University, for a clock-tower, $30,000. 



Barnard College, New York city, gifts from 

 friends for endowment, $250,000, securing a like 

 amount from John D. Rockefeller. 



Bayliss, Edmund L., New York, gift to 

 Phillips Exeter Academy, $30,000. 



Beach, Sophia E., New York, bequests to the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church, for the poor of 

 Calvary parish, and Samaritan Home for the 

 Aged, each $5,000; Society for the Relief of the 

 Destitute Blind, and Home for Incurables, each 

 $3,000; and Society of St. Johnland, New York 

 Protestant Episcopal City Mission, and Home for 

 Men and Aged Couples, each $1,000. 



Beck, Charles B., New York city, bequest for 

 a new church edifice for the West Farms Presby- 

 terian congregation, $100,000. 



Belden, James J., Syracuse, N. Y., gift to the 

 First Presbyterian Church there for a site for a 

 new edifice, his residence property, valued at 

 $75,000. 



.Benedict, Ezra, Albany, N. Y., bequests to 

 American Baptist Home Missionary Society and 

 American Baptist Missionary Union, each $10,- 

 000: American Baptist Publication Society, 

 $5,000 ; other benevolent institutions, $60,000. 



Bennett, Mrs. Thomas G., New Haven, 

 Conn., gift to the Medical School of Yale Uni- 

 versity for new clinical building, $96,000. 



Benson, Harriet S., Philadelphia, Pa., be- 

 quests to Women's Union Federation Missionary 

 Society and China Inland Mission, each $50,000; 

 American Sunday-School Union, Board of Foreign 

 Missions of the Reformed Episcopal Church, and 

 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 

 Missions, each $25,000: McAll Missiqn in Paris, 

 $10,000; Seaside Home for Invalid Women at At- 

 lantic City, Pennsylvania Seamen's Friend So- 

 ciety, Pennsylvania Institution for Instruction 

 of Blind, Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf 

 and Dumb, Pennsylvania Asylum for Indigent 

 Widows and Single Women, Pennsylvania In- 

 dustrial Home for Blind Women, Pennsylvania 

 Working Home for Blind Men, Home Missionary 

 Society, Pennsylvania Training-School for Feeble- 



Minded Children, Children's Seashore Home at 

 Atlantic City, Hampton Normal and Agricul- 

 tural Institute, American Colonization Society, 

 Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from 

 Cruelty, Pennsylvania Society for Prevention of 

 Cruelty to Animals, Indian School in Carlisle, Pa., 

 and Bernardo Homes in London, Eng., each $5,- 

 000; the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In- 

 stitute, $2,000; and to several other institutions 

 amounts making an aggregate of $500,000. 



Berden, Jacob C., Hackensack, N. J., bequest 

 to the Hackensack Hospital, the bulk of his es- 

 tate, valued at $75,000. 



Berry, George B,., Baltimore, bequest to the 

 Woman's College, Baltimore, available by deci- 

 sion of the court, between $15,000 and $20,000. 



Beth-Israel Hospital Association, New 

 York city, gifts for the erection and equipment of 

 a hospital building; cost, $225,000; opened May 

 25, 1902. 



Billings, Robert C., Boston (died in 1899), 

 bequests to his executors, to be distributed by 

 them among such charitable institutions as they 

 might select, the residue of his estate. On Dec. 

 12, 1902, the executors presented to the Supreme 

 Court of Massachusetts a statement setting forth 

 that they had a fund of $1,000,000 for distribu- 

 tion, and presenting a list of 126 selected educa- 

 tional and charitable institutions for the approval 

 of the court. Included in the list are nearly all 

 the well-known Boston charities, libraries, and 

 museums, several churches and hospitals, hospi- 

 tals in a score of other New England- cities, and 

 the following-named institutions: St. Andrew's 

 congregation (New Orleans), Bates College, Berea 

 College, Wellesley College, Tuskegee Institute, 

 Lincoln University (Cumberland, Tenn.), Fisk 

 University, Atlanta University, Fairmount Col- 

 lege (Wichita, Kan.), Mayesville (South Caro- 

 lina) Institute, Meadville Theological Seminary, 

 Phillips Exeter Academy, Hackley School (Tarry- 

 town, N. Y.), Abbot Academy, Andover. The di- 

 rect bequests in his will included the following: 

 $100,000 to Harvard University; $100,000 to the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and $50,- 

 000 to the Institute of Technology to found a 

 " Billings Student fund." Any student receiving 

 benefit is expected to abstain from the use of 

 alcohol and tobacco. The direct bequests and 

 residuary distribution aggregated $1,845,000. 



Bishop, Heber B.., New York, gifts to the 

 Metropolitan Museum of Art, a collection of jade 

 ornaments valued at $750,000, and to fit up a 

 room for its exhibition, $55,000. 



Bissell, William C., Lincoln, Neb. (died in 

 1898), bequest to the National Christian Associa- 

 tion of Chicago, to aid its crusade against secret 

 societies, nearly all his estate of $25,000. The will 

 was contested, and was upheld by the court in 

 1902. 



Bliss, Aaron T., Governor of Michigan, gift to 

 Albion (Mich.,) College, $21,000. 



Blocker, John, Buffalo, N. Y., gift to trustees, 

 the Mineral Springs farm of 118 acres, near that 

 city, as a site for a group of charities to be 

 known as the Blocker Homes, together with a 

 pledge of $100,000 in cash and $100,000 more by 

 his will. 



Blumenthal, Isaac, New York, bequests to 

 Mount Sinai Hospital to establish a perpetual bed, 

 $2,500; Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, 

 $1,500; Montefiore Home, $1,000; and Home for 

 Aged and Infirm Hebrews, $500. 



Boardman, Lucy C., Now Haven. Conn., gifts 

 to that city, a Manual Training-School, cost $150,- 

 000; and to Yale University, funds for a science 

 laboratory, to cost $60,000. 



