Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-20
DIVIDED HIS MILLIONS.
How John Crerar Disposed of His I'm
mense Estate.

How John Crer8r disposed OF HIS AM
mense Estate.
CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 1.-THE will of the
late John Crerar was admitted to pro-
bate to-day in the county court, and. in
accordance with its terms, his friends,
Col Huntington w. Jackson and Nor
man Williams, both of Chicago,
were recognized as executors,
personal recognizances. The will dis
poses of personal property scheduled at
So, 500, 900, and real estate valued at $780,
600.
Mr.. Crerar was bachelor, and the
last member of his branch of the family
in the male line. On his mothers side
he had two uncles, James and John
Smeallie, late of the towns of Florida
and West Galway, Montgomery County,
state of New York, through whom first,
second and third cousins survive. The
will directs that the testator be buried
b de his mother in Greenwood Gene
Brooklyn, and that plain head
81 ), similar to hers be erected over
his grave.
Then follows requests aggregating
about $1,000, 900 as follows: Twenty
thousand dollars to each of his cousins,
children of James and Mary Smeallle,
OF Florida, N. Y. $4,000 each to his
second cousins, the children of Andrew.
William, John, Alexander, Peter,
Robert and Boyd Smeallie, sons of
James and Mary Smeallie; $4,000 each
to his second cousins. the children of
the late Andrew and John Mckee
Smeallie, sons of the late Elizabeth
Smeallie, of West Galway, New York I;
s., 900 to each of the children of his Sec
ond cousins, Mary Elizabeth Bunyan
and Mrs. Agnes Bunyan, of West Charl-
ton y, 49, Saratoga County, New York;
$4,000 to Mary Elizabeth Bunyan for
kindness to the testator's mother, in
addition to the $4,000 given her as q
second cousin; $4,000 to Elizabeth
Smeallie, widow of John Mckee Smeal-
lie. for kindness to the testator's broth
er Peter; $4,000 to Robert Marshall, of
New York, an old friend of the tes-
tator's mother; $4,000 to the Misses
Frances G. and Clara A. Paige, of
Schenectady, N. Y; $1,000 to his friend
T. B. Blackstone, OF Chicago, to pur-
chase memento of the deceased; $780,
600 to his friend and partner, J. Nc
Gregor Adams; $4,000 to his junior
partner, Edward S. Shepard; $4,000 to
Rev. j. S. Mcpherson, pastor of the Sec
ond Presbyterian Church, of Chicago;
SD, 900 to Alonzo w. Paige, of Chicago
$4,000 to Miss Katherine w. Peck, OF
line Cation Williams, wife of Norman
Williams, and $4,000 to their three
children $40, 900 to each of his late part
ners, Morris 4. Jessup and John s.
Kennedy, of New York, to be expended
in mementos.
The will then directs his executors to
distribute his silverware, now at Tfa-
ny's, New York, his books, pictures and
furniture among his friends, and dis
poses OF some other minor belongings,
including his mothers watch, which is
given to Mrs. Mary f. Bunyan.
The testator gives $1,000 to the
Second Presbyterian Church, of Chica-
go; 100000 to the trustees Ct the same
church, the income to be used for mis-
sion work; and $4,000 to the Scotch
Presbyterian Church in Fourteenth
Street near Sixth Avenue, New York,
being the church in which the testator
WAS baptized.
Then follows large number of be-
quests ranging in amount from $4,000
to $50 900 each to charities, hospitals.
historical, scientific and literary socie-
ties, etc. Five thousand dollars is
given to the American Sunday School
Union, of Philadelphia, for use
in the Western states and
territories; $4,000 to the ST. Andrews
Society of New York; 100000 for a
colossal statue of abraham Lincoln;
ST 900 to Greenwood Cemetery, Brook
lyn, the income to be devoted to caring
for the family lot.
The remainder of the estate, esti-
mated to be worth about $2,250,O0O,
tenance of a public library in the
city of Chicago, to be known as the
John Crerar Library" He directs
that in the selection of the
books, the creation of a "bealthy
moral and Christian sentiment" be kept
in view, and that all "nastiness and i'm
morality be excluded"
In the last category be includes "dirty