The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-10-12
L1cK's TRUST.
THE LATE CALIFORNIA M1n1roNA1Rr-

THE LATE CALIFORNIA MILLIONAIRE.
James Lick, the California millionaire,
died in San Francisco on the LIST inst. He
was born in Franklin county, Pa, lived q
wandering life, spending several years in
Chilli, where he accumulated fortune Of
1000. Years ago he located in California;
before San francisco was thought Of as a
city. He invested his money in landa where
the site Of the city now is. Hence his great
fortune of about six million dollars. I
. The San Francisco Post gives the follow
ing rather romantic ACCOUNT of his life of late
years:
Sometime about August, 1864, James Lick,
an old citizen, money getter, and W, to
that time esteemed only in addition as q mo-
ney-keeper, startled the city OF Sa IN Francis
co by making over in estate valued by ex-
perts at from four to five million dollars to
trustees for the benefit Of its public institll-
lions and the erection Of monuments Of art
and patriotism. A telescope-to which hat
of Lord Ross was but an opera glass Que
that was to show lis that our knowledge wi
the sublimest truths of astronomy was but;
that OF blind pups; one that Kepler looking
through might well exclaim: "Oh, God, I
think Thy thoughts after Thee''-was TO be
erected in our midst. The author of -sThe
Star Spangled Banner,'' that glorious an
them which is more to us than tile s.Mareii-
laise'' is to a Frenchman, the ''Garibaldan
hymn to an Italian, or s'The Wearing of
the Green'' to an Irisl,man, was to have had
a monument in our State; and technical
schools, the gift OF millionaire, were to
teach our young boys to s'cease tc, do evil
and learn to do weli' Such was the pro
gramme, and loudly was
b. THE GREAT PHILANTHRopIsT
hailed by the press. The gentleman, how
ever. who was In the habit of Going good by
stealth, and blushing to find it fame, did not
furnish the prototype of Mr.. Lick. The lat
ter gentleman, by his afte,. proceedings,
showed that he much more closely resembled
the young lady in the variety hall song. Fer
first he would, and then he wouldn't; then
he smiled on his TRUSTEES, and said he
couldn't, and wound up by calling them all
naughty boys. r
been announced, when me had tasted the
sweet flattery OF the pr ess; when he had
been told many language didst thou speak
Spanish amor.g them :, barytone was thy
voice in early days, and of the highest schoo
thy vocallZation for few days-and the
had to give place to live. subjects, he again
startled the world by filing an instrument
revoking his former deed. of trust. His orig
inal trustees were the late Thomas H. Selby
D. Q. Mills, Henry NJ. Newhall, VIM. Al
word, Geo. FL. Howard, Jas. Otis, and Johr
0. Earl. The reason alleged in the docu
ment filed by him for this revocation wa
that he had not made Il suitable provision TO
his relations, and chat he wished to resettl'
and arrange the whole matter. BE also sta
ted that he was in feeble health at the tim
he executed the deed, and that it was execu
ted by him hastily and under 81 Ha
THE EFFECTS OF MENTAL DEPRESSION,
caused by his bad health. In other words
"When the devil was sick, the devil a sain
would be when the devil was we'll, the dew
a saint was he." In their first impulse OF in
dignation, the original Trustees determines
to try the question at law whether Mr.. Lie
had a right to give thing and take 4 thing,
as. the children say, but ultimately wise
| counsels prevailed, and they gave way to tn
following gentlemen, who took charge,
modification having been made in the trust
to which reference is made further on:
| Richard Floyd, John Nightingale, +. u
| Atherton, b. D. Murphy, Of Santa Clara
and John Fl. Lick, his son.
| Months Went by, and the public though
! that, until the big telescope, the sStar-SRar