

GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



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McKee, John, Philadelphia, Pa., bequesta for 

 the constructing and endowing of an institu- 

 tion in Philadelphia for education of white and 

 colored male orphans, to be known as McKee Col- 

 lege, and to McKee City, N. J., for a Catholic 

 church, rectory, and convent, his residuary estate 

 of $2,000,000. 



McMillan, James, Detroit, Mich., bequests to 

 Jrace Hospital, $60,000; and Home of the Friend- 



ss, Woman's Hospital, and Foundlings' Home, 



lildren's Free Hospital Association, and Little 

 Sisters of the Poor, each $1,000. See OBITUARIES, 



IEUICAN. 



Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New 

 fork city, gift from a friend, name withheld, 

 toward a new building on a new site, $50,000. 



Mary Katharine, Mother, formerly Miss Mary 

 Katharine Drexel, of Philadelphia, gift for in- 

 struction of Indian and negro children, a large 

 school building at Cascade, S. Dak. 



Masten, Charles H., M. D., Nyack, N. Y., be- 

 quests to Nyack Hospital, $20,000; and the Meth- 

 odist Episcopal Churches of Piermont and Pali- 

 sades, $2,500. 



Maxwell, Henry W., Brooklyn, N. Y., be- 

 quests to Long Island College Hospital and the 

 Brooklyn Industrial School Association and 

 Home for Destitute Children, each $20,000; 

 Brooklyn Association for Improving the Condi- 

 tion of the Poor, Brooklyn Union for Christian 

 Work, Second Unitarian Congregational Society 

 of Brooklyn, American Unitarian Society of Bos- 

 ton, Children's Aid Society, Brooklyn Society for 

 Prevention of Cruelty to Children, American So- 

 ciety for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Mead- 

 ville (Pa.) Unitarian Seminary, Brooklyn Bureau 

 of Charities, and Greenwood Cemetery Associa- 

 tion, each $5,000. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Maxwell, J. Rogers, Brooklyn, N. Y., gift to 

 Long Island College Hospital, for a new building, 

 $400,000. 



Merchants' Club, Baltimore, Md., gift to 

 Johns Hopkins University, toward endowment 

 fund, $50,000. 



Messiah Women's Branch Alliance, New 

 York city, gift from the Church of the Messiah, 

 New York city, for home missionary work, $20,- 

 000. 



Methodist Episcopal Church in New Yorlj 

 city, friends of, gifts for the Worn-out Preachers' 

 fund, $70,000. 



Mills, Darius 0., New York city, gift to Uni- 

 versity of California, for the Department of Phi- 

 losophy, $50,000, and for an astronomical expedi- 

 tion to the Southern Hemisphere, $24,000. 



Morgan, Henry A., gift to Wells College, for 

 a new building, $50,000. 



Morgan, William R., Hartford, Conn., be- 

 quests to South Baptist Church, and Old People's 

 Home, each the income of about $52,000; and 

 Masonic Home at Wallingford, the income of 

 about $36,000. 



Morris, Mrs. Georgia E., New York city, be- 

 quest to the building fund of the Cathedral of 

 St. John the Divine, made available in 1902 by the 

 death of her sister, $200,000. 



Morse, Charles W., New York, gift to the city 

 of Bath, Me., a high-school building, to cost from 

 $50,000 to $75,000. 



Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, New York 

 city (died April 2, 1872), bequests made available 

 by the death of his widow (Nov. 14, 1901) and 

 the division of his estate (September, 1902), to 

 Home for the Friendless, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 

 $3,000; Princeton University for scholarships, 

 $2,000; Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, 

 Va., $1,000; Old Ladies' Home, Poughkeepsie, 



$1,000; University of the City of New York, for 

 annual medal for scholarship, $1,000; his trustees, 

 for medal to encourage geographical . research, 

 $1,000; and the National Museum, Washington, 

 D. C., all his orders, decorations, etc. 



Newberry, Mrs. Helen H., New Haven, Conn., 

 gift to Yale University, an organ for Woolsey 

 Hall, cost $30,000. 



New Haven County (Conn.) Anti-Tuber- 

 culosis Association, gifts from members and 

 friends, funds for modern hospital for the treat- 

 ment of consumptives. 



Newton Theological Seminary, gift from 

 friends to secure gift of $150,000 from John D. 

 Rockefeller, $150,000. 



New York Kindergarten Association, gift 

 from a friend, for endowment fund, $40,000. 



Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., gift 

 from a friend, a school of technology. 



Norwegian Residents, New York city, gifts 

 for the erection of a new Norwegian hospital 

 there, aggregating $140,000. 



Oberlin College, Ohio, gift from friend in New 

 England, name withheld, for new endowment 

 fund, $50,000. The same donor gave a similar 

 sum to the previous fund. 



Ogden, Joseph W., New York, gift of a 

 new Presbyterian Church building, in Chatham, 

 N. J. 



Oliver, Henry W., Pittsburg, Pa., gift to 

 Lafayette College, the Oliver library. 



O'Neill, Matthew, Buffalo, N. Y., bequest to 

 Hobart College, $30,000. 



O'Rourke, John F., New York city, gift to 

 Cooper Union, for two scholarships, $5,000. 



Palmer, Francis A., New York city, bequests 

 to Palmer Christian College, Iowa, $30,000; Elon 

 College, North Carolina, $30,000 ; Union Christian 

 College, Indiana, $30,000; Hamilton College, $5,- 

 000; Congregational Sunday-School and Publish- 

 ing Society, $5,000; Westchester County Tempo- 

 rary Home for Destitute Children, $5,000 ; Chapin 

 Home for the Aged and Infirm, $5,000; the 

 Presbyterian Hospital, New York city, $5,000; 

 the Presbyterian Church, Bedford, N. Y., $1,000; 

 and the Francis Asbury Palmer fund, the residue 

 of his estate ($500,000). See OBITUARIES, AMER- 

 ICAN. 



Palmer, Mrs. L. M., bequests to the hospital 

 of the University of Michigan for a ward for 

 children, $20,000, and for its endowment, $15,000. 



Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 New York city, gifts from friends, to extinguish 

 debt, $27,000. 



Parker, Cortlandt, Newark, N. J., gift to the 

 city of Perth Amboy, N. J., the old Parker home- 

 stead there, built in 1719, for a site for a Carnegie 

 library. 



Parsons, John E., New York, gift to St. 

 Helen Episcopal Church, a new parish building, 

 cost $5,000. 



Patton, Thomas R., treasurer of the Grand 

 Lodge of Masons of Pennsylvania, gift to that 

 body for the relief of widows of Master Masons, 

 $42,624, making with his previous gifts a fund 

 of $100,000. 



Pearsons, Daniel Kimball, Chicago, 111., gift 

 to Whitman College at Walla Walla, Wash., $50,- 

 000, making his total gifts to the college, $250.000; 

 Illinois College, Jacksonville, $50,000; Fargo 

 (N. Dak.) College, $50.000; and Fairmount Col- 

 lege, Wichita, Kan., $25,000. 



Pennsylvania, University of, gift from a 

 friend, for the building fund of the medical labo- 

 ratories, $10,000; and from other friends, the en- 

 tire amount for the new gymnasium, to cost 

 $500,000. 



