The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19
WILL OF MRS. SOPHIA HAYDEN.
A Large Number of requests to Churcl
Corporations and Benevolent Societies.

Corporations and Benevolent Societies.
Mrs. Sophia Walker Woods Hayden,
wife of Rev. William B. Hayden, daugh-
ter of Rev. DR.. Leonard Woods ofssAndo-
yer, and sister of DR.. Woods, late presi-
dent of Bowdoin College, by her last will
and testament, presented at the probate
Office, leaves all her property, of every
kind, besides certain gifts which are
placed in memorandum, to her husband,
William B. Hayden and William G. Da-
Wis of Portland, and Francis A. Dewson
of Newton, as trustees, to hold, receive
and dispose of.
The net income of the property is to
go to her husband, Rev. William B. Hay
den during his life.
After his death, $4,000 is left to the
General Convention of the New Jerusar
lem and it's successors; the income Of
$1,000 to go to New Church foreign mis-
sions, the income of $1,000 to home mis-
sions, and the income of the third thou
sand to any of the general uses or ex-
|
are as follows:
To the corporation Of the New Church
Theological School and its successors,
| $4,000, this sum to be added to the en-
dowment, and the income applied to
current expenses.
To the New Church University at Ur-
bana, Ohio, $4,000, under like conditions.
To the New Church Institute of Edu-
cation at Waltham, Mass, and its sue
cessors, $500.
To the Swedenborg Memorial, to be
erected in the city of Stockholm, Swe-
den, $500.
The sum of 500 each is left to the
Society of the New Church, Salem, So
ciety of the New Church, Washington,
D. c., Society of the New Church, South
port, Lancashire. England, as memoir
al of their pleasant pastoral connection
| in 1S77-7S.
To the Maine Association of the New
/ Jerusalem Church, $1,000 to be funded;
and the interest employed in missionary
and colportage work in Maine.
To the Portland Society, New Jerusa-
lem Church, $500, to be applied towards
| the church debt; if there be none then
the income to go towards keeping the
Temple in repair. To the infant class in
the Sunday school, 500; also to the
church the two pews. of which she holds
the deeds, and her dwelling house and
lot, No. 81 Winter street, Portland
To the Portland Provident Association,
| $500; to the Bible Society of Maine, In
dustrial School for Girls at Hallowell,
Home for Aged Women at Portland,
Widows Wood Society, Dr. S. M. Cate of
Salem, Mass, DR.. Charles R. Coffin, "a
Cromwell Gardens, South KensiDgton,
London, Eng. Mr.. Charles Hayden Cot
fin, and DR.. Malcolm G. Pingree, Port
land, 800 each.
To Mr. William Hayden Tucker, for
merly of Portland, now of Chicago, Mr..
William Hayden Jordan, and Mr.. Will
liam Benjamin Hay, $50 each.
To Robert Hayden Shannon, Hartford,
Conn.,, Margaret Hayden Folger, daugh-
ter of Commodore Folger, U. S. N; AL
bert Hayden Rich, $25 each.
DR.. Silas E. Sylvester, Portland, Mrs.
Lucy Ann Baker, Portland, 800 each.
To Joseph W. Woods, Boston; Mrs.
Abbie Woods Fiske, Boston; Elizabeth
A. Woods, Andover; $500 each.
To Mrs. Mary Smith Richardson, Flor
ida, $500. To Mrs. Sarah Smith Perry,
wife of Bishop Perry of Iowa, $500, and
the same amount to Mrs. Hattie Apple
ton Smith, widow of the Rev. John Cat
lin Smith of New York; to Mrs. Char
lotte E. Walker, Schodock Depot, New
York; to Mrs. Saran Stebbins Stats,
Castleton, N. Y.
the income of $1,000, the principal at his
death to go to his daughter, Mrs. Sophia
Aldrich, Webster, Me.
To Miss Edith Salter of Boston, Mrs.
Margaret Lawrence of Marblehead. and
Mrs. Harriet Woods Baker, $500 each.
To the Corporation of the New Church
Theological School of Cambridge, 700
acres in INDICATED sections of "Elk!ns
Grant," Grafton, N. H., and all the resi-
due of her estate, wherever located, to
be added to the permanent endowment
| fund.
If William G.. Davis dies, then Walter
| G.. Davis is constituted trustee in his
place, and if Francis A. Dewson dies,
then the existing treasurer of the Corpo-
ration of the New Church Theological
School, will take his place as trustee, and
no bond is required of the trustees and
| executors.
The will is dated June 18th, 1890, and
| is witnessed by F. c. Payson, B. D. Yer
| rill and FL. M. Davis.
The bequest to Dr.. Pingree is in cod
icil dated May II, 1892, and witnessed by
Margaret T. W. Merrill, Helen M. Shop
| ley and Harrison M. Davis.
Strange Result of an Election Bet.