New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-12
4 MILLIoN FoR 0HARITE.
THE WILL OF ISAIAH v. WILLIAMSON AID.
MrrTED TO PROBATE IN PHILADELPHIA.
A TOTAL ESTATE OF ss.ooooOo, EXCLUSIVE on
THE TRADES SCHOOL FUND THE

VoTAL ESTATE OF ee,000,OOO, EXCLUSIVE OF
THE TRADES SCHOOL FUND THE
copIc1. NOT MADE PUBLIC
Philadelphia, March IL speciaD The win Of Isaiah
V. Williamson was admitted TO probate to-day Tho
total value Of the estate s between 100000 and
$1,000 o00 OF which 81 600 600 Is given TO charity.
This sum Is exclusive Of the property given by Mr..
Williamson before his death for the establishment
Of his trades school. The viii was brought to the
Registers oflce this afternoon by the testator's so.
hctor, Franklin H. Gowen, who was accompanied by
Aesss. B. A. Knight John r. Brooks and NJ. p.
Hutchinson tho subscribing witnesses 10 tho document
It covers sixteen pages Of legal cap and bears Nr.
Willlams's signature the margin Of every page.
1t was executed on April 10. 1874 and names Daniel
B. Cummings, president Of the Girard Bank execu-
tor
setting apart Of the income Of 1000 for each Of the
children of tho testators brothers and sisters, the
principal going in turn 20 their children II Of age at
the time OF the death OF the parents. An exception
is made IN the case Of the children Of John b.
williamson brother of the tcstator, in Indiana, for
whom e2e 900 Is SGT aside under the conditions.
In order to enable Mrs Bellangee Cox, formerly Miss
Mary McHenry, and Miss May williamson tho teststors
cousin, TO increase their charitable gifts $4,000 is
given each Of them The charitable requests as fol-
lows: y
To the Pennsylvania Hospital. 100000, to DO
divided equally between the City Hospital
a. Eighth and Spruce sts.. and the In
sane Department in West Philadelphia; $4,000
each to the Episcopal Hospital, University Of Penn
syfvania University Hospital Old Mems Home Of
Philadelphia, Educational Home for Boys Of Phlla
delrhia, and Mercantile Library; $4,000 each to
tho ohldren's Hospital, woman's Hospital, ortho-
podIc Hospital and the woman's Medical College; ;
$4,000 each TO the Church Home for Children APP
nrenticos Library, Swarthmore College, and Lincoln
Institution 500, 900 each to the Academy Of Natural
Sciences and the Academy Of Fine Arts. Tho manner
Of Of these requests Is giyon in tho words: II
s my wish and desire that the foregoing beQuests be
placed m tho permanent or endowment fund of each
Institution, and DO invested in sound interestpaying
securities, the interest alone 10 be expended IN tho
requests 10 hospitals the interest shall DO expended
only for the establishment of free beds.'
One item beQueaths 100000 to the Pennsylvania
Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting An
nuites, in trust, to pay the income, on November in
each year, the following Philadelphia institutions:
These receive per cent each Of tho income; Penn
Asylum for INDECENT widows and Single Women,
LyiDgIn Charity, Foster Homo Association, Society
for the Employment and Instruction OF the Poor
Western ProvIdent Society and Chldren's Home
Industrial Home for Blind Women, Western Assocla-
don Of Ladies for the Relief and Employment. Of the
Poor and all of the regularly,organized soup
e0Sesbes Ino IOlpNlnB fpceNo y PoE Cous
zach; the Female Association for tho
Relief Of the Sick and Infm Poor with Clothing,
Howard Institution of Friends, Philadelphia Dis
pcnsaFy Mercantile Beneficial Association, Temporary
Homo Association, Franklin Reformatory Home, So
elsy for Alleyiatng the Miseries Of Public Prisons,
School Of Design for Women. The following receive
per cont each Of the income: Clinton Boarding
House for Young Women, Northern Dtspensary,
Howard Hospital and InnrmAry for Incurabes, In
dustrial Homo for Girls, Union Temporary Home,
Fuelsayng Society, Northern Association for the Re-
lief and Employment Of Poor Women, Central En-
ployment Of Poor Women, Central Employment AS
ISOLATION, Union Benevolent Association, Historical
society OF Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Seamen's
Friend Society, Church Dlspcnsary OF Southwark. Six
per cent is given to the Union School and Chdren's
Homo, and the Asylum for the Relief Of Persons
Deprived Of the Use Of their Reason.
The rest OF the estate Is TO be invested Ia productive
securities By the PennsyyaDa Company for assurances
on Lives and Granting Annuitios, as trustees, which
which time tho whole Il 20 DO divided, share and
share aliks, among the testators graDdnephsws and
grsnd.nieses who shall then DO living
Tho entire estate e taxable BY the Commonwealth
for collateral Inheritance and VIII Yield TO the state
between 100000 and 100000. Besides this,
handsome sum viii 90 10 tho executor, although the
SG S% o. ss sss s' Of s ''s f9s ne a
this, the Pennsylvania Company, according TO tho
law IL entitled 20 per cent upon the amount awarded
WIN not sil short OF sTS6 600. The contents q tho
e0dic that Is supposed 10 contain requests for tho
Trades School were not made known and the phIlan-
thropistS intentions a. 10 how much was TO be set
apart 10 carry out that project, II any, were not
mentioned.
Sec ~ anything which you need In business or the
L.