Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-12

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and New Lebsnon.
Mr.. Tilden's will is published, but contains
little not already known. Mrs Mary b.
Pelton gets the use OF the house 80 West
Thirty-eighth street and $4,000 during her
life, which Laura A. Pelton gets at her death,
and which goes afterward 10 the Tilden trust
The use Of $500 and the homestead at New
Lebanon goes to Lucy +. Tilden. Adelaide
b. Buchanan receives the use of S2NoNi
Susan u. Tilden, Henrietta A. swan, Caro-
line b. Whittlesey; George III. 1tlden and
Samuel j. Tilden, jr, Catherine a. Pierson,
Ruby s. Tilden, Anna j. Gould, Miss Mary
Celeste Staufier, of New Orleans and others
receive respectable sums, though 1t Is stipu-
lated in all cases IN which special trust
shall be for the profit OF any female, the said
income shall be kept tree from the control OF
interference OF any husband which the said
female now has or may hereafter have; such
income being intended to be sacredly devoted
to the separate personal use of said female,
and Is not to be pledged, encountered or
anticipated by her.
The will proceeds: al authorize my exc
cutors and trustees 10 cause the establishment
of library and free reading room in my ma
tive town of New Lebanon, They are au-
thorized to expeud for the creation and
equipment aud To invest rs n permanent
fund to maintain the library and read ing
room SIS, 900, and any further sum not eN-
ceeding $685. 900, which / may in writing in
struct them to apply TO those objects l su-
thorize them to appropriate out of my estate,
in such manner rs they may deem most eN-
pedieut $50 900 toward the establishment OF
a library and free reading room in the city OF
Yopkers and such further sum, not exceed
ing 5000 as may hereafter instruct them
to apply to that object
al request them to obtain as speedily as pos
sible from the legslaturean act of incorpora-
ton of an institution TO be known rs the Til
den trust, with capacity to establish and
maintain free library and reading room in
the city OF New York, aud to promote such
scientific and educational objects as they
may more particularly designate. Such cor.
poration shall have not less than five trus-
tees, with power to ill vacancies in their
number, and In case said institution shall be
incorporated In form and manner satisfac-
tory to my executors and trustees during the
lifetime Of the survivor of the two lives in
being upon which the trust of my general
estate herein created IL limited, to wit, the lives
ofRuby S. Tilden and susie " hittlesey, here.
by authorize my executors and trustees to or
ganiZe the said corporation designate the ii irsi
trustees thereof and to convey to or apply tC
the use Of the same the rest, residue aud re-
mainder of all my real aud personal estate
not specifically disposed of by this instru
ment, or so much thereof as they may deem
expedient. l authorize my executors ant
trustees to apply the rest, residue and re
msinder Of my property, real and personal
after making good the said special trust
Il
portions thereof as they may not deem it eN
| pedient to apply to its use, to such charitable
educational aud scientific purpose as in theil
l judgment will render the said rest, resi-
l due and remainder of my property mos
i widely and substantially beneficial to the
l interests OF mankind.
| "My said executors and trustees are here.
by invested with the following powers
al To manage the funds herein directed
to be invested in the trusts for specific per.
L snrh 4 pSt hal bpa N
made with like authorities, as in case OF other
portions of my estate.
az To sell and dispose from time to time,
in their discretion, of such parts and parcels
of the real estate and other property hereby
devised, given and bequeathed to them a.
l they shall deem advisable"
Ten thousand dollars is begueathed &c
keep in order the cemetery at New Lebanon
| provision is made to erect monument there
to his memory, and to collect and publish
| his speeches and public documents, and any
/ legatee attempting to contest the will is eN
cluded from its benetts.
Miss Mary Celeste stauffer Remembered
The lady whom he mentions as "My
friend, Mary Celeste Stsuffer," and to whom
he leaves the income of 100000, is twenty
five years old and resides in New Orleans
where her tather, Isaac Stsufier, who Learned
the hardware business with George NJ. Stein
l man & Co, this city, is one OF the wealthies
and most prominent merchants in that city
and where the family occupy the highes
social position. Miss Stauiier is a youni
lady of many accomplishments. She is wei
known in New York society, and, with he
mother, has been frequent visitor to Gray
stone. She Is now with her family in Europe
/ 1t was said at one time as now and then @
| many others, that she was engaged to b
married to Mr.. Tilden. The young lady
father has a summer residence, near the Gar
| this county, and she has been frequent Wis
| tor to Lancaster in late years. Ex-Mayor w
l ID. Stauffer is relative
| This is the text of the Stautfer beuuest
Twenty-third.- direct my said executor
and trustees to set apart $50 900 of first mort
/ gage per cent International Il Great North
ern railroad company bonds and 500, 900 o
! the first mortgage bonds of the Oregon Shor
Il Line railroad company, guaranteed by th,
/ Union Pacific railway company, as a specis
trust for the benefit of my friend, Miss Mari
Celeste Stautier daughter of Isaac Stautier
esq, OF New Orleans The income OF saiC
special trust shall he applied 10y the trustee
/ thereof to the use of the said Mary Celest
Staufier during her natural life, free iron
any interference and control of any husban,
she may have ; and upon the decease of sal
/ Mary Celeste Stauffer the trustees of sal
special trust shall pay over the principal O
/ the said bonds or assign the same to the devl
sees or heirs of the said Mary Celest
/ StAuffer.H'