The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-12
Mr.. TILDEN'S WILL.
His Requests to Scientific, Educational and
Charitable Institutions, in Various Places.

NEW YORK. Aug. 1l-Govcrnor Tilden's will
is published, but contains little not already
known. After making the family legacies, it is
stipulated that in all cases in which special
trusts shall be for the benefit of any female, the
said income shall be kept free from the control
or interference of any husband which the said
female now has or may hereafter have; such in
come being intended to be secretly devoted to
the separate personal use Of said female, and is
not to be pledged, encumbersd or anticipated by
her. The will proceeds:
II authorize my executors and trustees to
cause the establishment of library and free
reading room in my native town of New Leba-
non My executors and trustees are authorized
to expend for the creation and equipment, and to
invest as permanent fund to maintain this
said library and reading ROOM the sum of $685.
600 and any further sum not exceeding $35, 600,
which may, in writing, instruct my said exec
utors and trustees to apply to these objects.
81 hereby authorize my said executors and
trustees to appropriate out Of my estate in such
manner as they may deem most expedient, the
sum of $50, 900 toward the establishment of a IL
brary and free readngroom in the city of
Yonkers. and such further sum, not exceeding
$50, 900, az / may hereafter instruct my said ex-
ecutors and trustees to apply to that object.
II request my said executors and trustees to
obtain as speedily as possible from the Legis-
lature an act of incorporation of an institution
to be known as the Tilden Trust, with capacity
to establish and maintain free library and
reading room in the city Of New York, and to
promote such scientific and educational objects
as my said executors aud trustees may more
particularly designate. Such corporation
shall have not less than five trustees,
with power to fill vacancies in their
number, and in case said institution shall be in
corporated in form and manner satisfactory to
my said executors and trustees during the life.
time of the survivor of the two lives in being
upon which the trust of my general estate herein
created is limited, to-wit: The lives of Ruby S.
Tilden and Susie Whittesey. hereby authorize
my said executors and trustees to organize the
said corporation, designate the first trustees
thereof, and to convey to or apply to the use of
the same the rest residue and remainder of all
my real and personal estate not spe-
cihcally disposed of by this instrument
so much thereof as they may deem
expedient. l authorize my said executors
and trustees to apply the rest, residue and re-
mainder OF my property, real and personal after
making good the said special trusts herein d.
rected to be constituted, such portions there
of as they may not deem it expedient to apply to
its use. to such charitable, educational and sci
entiic purposes as, in the Judgment of the execu-
tors and trustees. will render the said rest resi-
due and remainder of my property most wisely
and substantially beneficial to the interests of
mankind.
"My said executors and trustees are hereby
invested Win the LOllOWlng pOWerS L. 10 man
age the funds herein directed to be invested in
the trusts for specific persons until snch in vest
ment shall have been made. with like authority
as in cases of other portions of my estate 2 To
sell and dispose, from time to time in their dis
erection, of such parts and parcels of the real es-
tate and other property hereby devised, given
and bequeathed to them as they shall deem ad-
visable."
Ten thousand dollars is bequeathed to keep In
order the cemetery at New Lebanon; provision is
made to erect there monuments to his memory;