Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-02
MRS. STEWARDS WILL.
How the Deceased Lady Disposed of Her
Immense Fortune.

New YORK, November 1.-The will of
Mrs Cornelia NJ. Stewart, the wife of the
late millionaire dry goods merchant, was
filed for probate to-day by Judge Horace
Russell, Mr.. Henry Hilton's son-in-law
Citations were Immediately issued to the
heirs and next Of kin made returnable on
! November l3. In the instrument Mrs.
Stewart bequests $50, 900 per year during
life to her brother, Charles p. Clinch; to
each of her sisters, Anna, Emma and
/ JUL Climb, she leaves an annuity of $10,-
900; to her niece, Sarah \. Firth, she
leaves $3.50, 600; to COrnelia S. Butler she
leaves $500, 600, and to each of her chill
dren, Lawrence and Charles S. Butler,
$50, 900; to Kate A. Smith 5000, 900; to
each of the remaining children of Sarah n.
Smith, named Louisa, Ella, Bessie and
James, 500, 900; 10 each of the children
of her deceased sister Louise, formerly the
wife of Charles f. Butler, namely, Rosa
lie, Helen, Virginia, Lillian, Maxwell and
Prescott, $50, All the rest of the es-
tate, real and personal, she bequeaths to
Charles ]. Clinch, now of Paris, and Henry
Hilton of this city. None of
the legacies are to be pay
able until three years from the
final probate of the will nor any of the an
nuities until six months after such pro-
bate. The executors to the will are Chas.
j. Clinch and Henry Hilton, and the wit
neSses to the instrument are Henry f.
Davies, James and Henry Work, and Ed
ward Hilton.
The will is dated July 9TH, 1887. In q
codical to the will she revOkes the beguest
to Henry Hilton of one half her residuary
estate, and instead bequeaths him one half
of the residual of her property and estate
in trust to collect, receive, hold,
manage, control, sell and ap-
ply the same to the following
purposes: To complete the Stewart Memo
rial church now in course of erection by
/ her ut Garden City, l.. l., and to supply
it with all that is necessary to make it a
/ free church and cathedral for the ProteS-
! tant Episcopal church of the diocese OF
/ Long Island, y. Y. to endow it with such
money rs will maintain it forever with
provisions for the bishop of the diocese and
! his assistants; to construct two buildings
/ to be used Us schools and Seminaries OF
| learning to be attached to such cathedral
and endOw them with such money as will
sustain them forever, and to erect such
other buildings rs the cathedral and SEM
inarieS and schools may require, all these
buildings To be erected on Mrs. Stewart s
lands, there known rs Hampstead Plains,
l.. |.
These buildings, when completed, are
to be conveyed TO the use forever OF the
Z. f. Church of the diocese of Long Is
land, or to the corporation known rs the
Cathedral of the Incarnation in the dio-
cese of Long Island. One-half Of her
residuary estate so devised is to be applied
for the above purposes.
IL any heir becomes 4 party to any pro-
ceeding to interfere with the will, the pro,
vision in the will in his or her favor is to
be cancelled. The cOdicil Of the will is
dated May -, 1878.
Byanother cOdicil Mrs. Stewart author
izeSss Mr. Henry Hitter to a share and
portion OF the property, devised and
equeathed to him III trust to lease and
! dispose of it from time TO time, rs he
shall deem eXpedient, all such acts to be
valid and as eliectual rs if made by the
teStator, and all expenses to be allowed
him without further proof than that they
were actually made. Judge Hilton is en-
powered to divide any surpluses among
legal heirs lie is empowered TO appoint
or substitute u trustee OF trustees to act in
his place for any desired period, and al
will to revoke any such appointment, and
by will to appoint his successor, provided,
| however, that the said trust shall not
continue longer than the lives o
/ Kate A. and James C.. Smith named in the
will. BY another cOdicll dated May 81,
lSS3, Mrs. Stewart bequeaths to Sarah n
smith and her heirs one equal part in the
share in the estate granted to her nephew,
Chas. J. Clinch. She gives So, 900 to be
distributed among her household servants
living with her ut the time of her death
The last cOdicil is dated November 30
| 1885. After stating that the Cathedral
and st. PaulS school ut Camden City ha'
been completed and endowed, revOkes al
former claims to the will and cOdicil:
thereto except that the trustee IS elm
powered at his discretion to build anC
endow seminary of learning for womer
as described in the previous cOdicil and Il
erect such other institutions and building
connected with the Cathedral rs may b,
necessary. Absolute title to the property
is vested in the legatee to convey anC
transfer the property in accordance will
the provisions of the will and cOdicil.