The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-28
Princely Public BenefactiO ms.

Princely Public BenefactiO ms.
Some of the Instances of Generosity to the
in Short Time.
The following generous benefactiens are re-
corded in the newspapers, within the last few
months, mostly by religious men and women,
who set the noblest Of examples to their fell
lows, and have made their influence felt
throughout the length and breadth of the land:
Mrs Valera G.. Stone, the New England
ghilanthropist, has given away 81, 100000,
She keeps for her own use only 5000, 900 out
of her late husbands estate of $2OOO,OOO
Her husband was Daniel P. Stone, a Boston
merchant Twenty-Five educational instita>
field, Minnesota, and several hospitals are ben
Gifted by her liberal distribution.
The late John M. Pinkertop, of Boston, left
by his will 5000, 600 to the Academy in Derry,
N. H founded by his grandfather.
Mr.. J q: Made, Of Cleveland, Ohio, has just
given 100000 to the Protestant orphan
asylum Of that city.
Mrs. Mary N. Bliss of Columbus, Ohio, has
s gn;71; $l9' 600 to Kenyon College, for the
Hall" as memorial to her deceased brother,
George HUBBARD
Mrs. L J. Ely of New York has given Girls
void College, in Davenport Iowa, $4,000 for
a residence for Professor Barris of the divinity
school. Her husband gave 500, 900 ten years
ego to endew the Ely chair occupied by Pro
lessor Barris, and afterward gave the late
Bishop Lee 81 ., 900 for the cathedral which
the bishop built at an expense OF nearly $780,
900.
The will Of the late John B. Brown of Port
LAND, Me-, with one exception the richest man
in Maine, gives to the Maine General Hospital
$4,000; to the Portland Female Orphan Asy-
lum So, 600; to the Association for tie Reliefo,
INDECENT Women $1,000; to the Portland
Widows Wood Society So, 600; to the Portland
Institute and Public Library ST. 900: to the
Maine Missionary Society 81 900; to the Port
land Benevolent Society $500, and to the Port
land Dispensary $500.
The will of the late VIM Il. Palls of Boston,
gives 500, 900 to the Drew Theological Semi
nary, $4,000 to the Wesleyan University at
Middletown, Conn.,, and OIL the dea tn II b q Wid-
ow much larger sum to these institutions.
The will of the late Louis Strauss, of San
Francisco, bequeaths $4,000 to the Jewish
Orphan Asylum, Of Chicago, $4,000 to tho
Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home So
Protestant Orphan Asylum and the Roman Cath
Ole Orphan Asylum, of San Francisco, and tho
Deaf and Blind Asylum of California.
Moses Hopkins, brother of the late Mark
Hopkins, has subscribed, $50, 600 for the en-
dowment of the Golden Gate Academy, at Oak
land, Cal.
Miss Barbara Scott, of Montreal, bequeathed
in the McGill College; $4,000 for classical
scholarship to be called the Barbara Scott
Scholarship" and 5 2, 900 to the building fund
of st. Gabriel Church, Of Montreal
The late John c. Brooks, of Portland, Me-,
bequeathed So, 500 to various tract and mis-
sionary societies., and the residue of his estate,
after certain private requests are paid, to the
American Board
The will of the widow of DR.. Thomas r.
Boutelle, late of Boston, bequeaths the bulk Of
her property, estimated at about SIS, 200, to
the American Unitarian Association.
Judge Charles E. Forbes, who died at North
ampton, Mass, has left by will 1920, 600 to
establish public library in that city.
Mr.. Roswell P. Flower and wife, of Water
town, have made a gift of So, 600 to the Jehfer-
son county Orphan Asylum, in that city:
The will of the late Eliza Toomey, Of Boston,
contains beQuest Of $500 to the Carney hos
pital
The late John M Pinkerton, left by his viii
5000, 900 to the Academy in Derry, N. H.,
founded in 1918 by the father and uncle Of the
deceased.
Mr.. H. B. Hurlbut, of Cleveland, Ohio, has
offered to give $4,000 endowment to the
partment Of the Wooster University if the two
are consolidated into one school in Cleveland.
The proposition has been accepted by the two
institutions.
The late Eliza J. Wallingford, of Pittsburg,
Penn, bequeathed S., 600 each to the Board
ct Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian church
and dozen other societies connected with that
denomination
The late Nathaniel Weston, of Salem, Mass,
bequeathed S., 900 to the Salem Marine Soci-
ETY. and an equal sum to the Old Mems Home
Of that city.
Mr.. George J. seney, a wealthy New York
Methodist, has presented Emory College, Geor-
slowed $4,000 for the establishment and
erection Of a hospital to be Methodist Gener-
al Hospital, but open to Jew and Gentle,
Protestant and Roman Catholic, heather and
in6del, on the same terms.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott of Pennsylvania
has endowed the Chair of Mathematics in the
University of Pennsylvania with gift of $780,
ferson Medical College, $50, 900 so the Or
thopoedic Hospital and $40, 600 to the Chill
dren's Department of the Episcopal Hospital
in Philadelphia, and $50, 900 to the Washing
ton and Lee University at Lexington, Va.
Mr. Joseph Wharton, of Philadelphia gives
$3.50, 900 to be devoted to the establishment
Of department for instruction in question: of
finance and economy in their relation to govern
ment and business affairs.
The above are only few Of the recent gifts
for public purposes The list might be indean-
itely extended. They show that making,
earning, and saving, ia sometimes followed by
generous and judicious spending.
The residence of Charles Hoag, in the town
Of Riohfield. Hennepin county, was totally de-
stroyed by fire.