Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-01-14
SCH0ENHOFEN NOT LIKE GOULD.

Peter Schoenhofen. the brewer,
leaves SO, 900 to seventeen charitable
institutions of Chicago by his will
filed in the Probate Court. The es-
tate is valued at 81, 900, 600, of which
$3.50, 900 is in real estate. Letters
testamentary were issued to Carl
Bull and Joseph Theurer, sons-in
law, who were nominated in the will
as the executors. They were re-
quired III give bond of $4,000, 000
but, in accordance with the wishes
of Mr.. Schoenhofen, no sureties were
required. The court also appoint
ed II. Scharenberg, G. w. Smith,
and r. j. Sharon appraisers. BY the
will the executors, by and with the
consent of the widow, are given full
power to handle the estate as they
| see fit. Mr.. Schoenhofen resided at
No. $500 Prairie avenue and was
president of the Feter Schoenhofen
Brewing Company of Illinois, as well
as the Peter SchOenhOfen Brewing
Company, limited, of England.
The widow is left the entire estate,
subject to charitable requests, eX-
cept the stocks and bonds of the two
companies named. Her estate, how
ever is for life. and in the event of
her death the children or their heirs
shall share alike. Among the be-
quests are the following:
German Old Peoples Home and
the Alexian Brothers Hospital get
$40, 900 each, in the latter case to be
used for the hospital work at No. $50
Worth Market street; Evangelical
Lutheran Orphan Asylum, s., 900;
St. Luke's Free Hospital, 81, 600; the
Chicago Founding Home, $1,000;
United Hebrew Charities, $4,000, to
be used for the benefit of hospital
funds: the Old Peoples Home on the
South Side, $4,000: and the
Chicago Home for Incurables, 81, 900:
Epheta School for the Deaf, SO, 900,
provided at the time of his death
that institution shall have been in
corporated for the purpose of main
tanning a school for the deaf and
dumb; Newsboys and Bootblacks'
Association of Chicago, 81, 900; Amer
lean Educational Association, Chi
cagO Home for the Friendless, and
the Chicago Orphan Asylum, each
81, 200; German Hospital of Chicago
and the Guardian Angel Orphan Asy
lum Of Rosehill German Catholic
Orphan Asylum, each $4,000 Little
Sisters of the Poor, 5000.
The executors are left 50, 900 to be
invested in bearing securi-
ties and the income accruing each
year to be paid to the President of
the Kranken Inter Stuetzungs We
rein der Augutelten der Peter Scho-
enhofen Brewing Company to be ex-
pended for the purposes of the asso-
citation, a benevolent order composed
of the employees of the company. A
next bequest of 1000 to the execu
tors in trust was made in the hope
that it would form nucleus for a
new Bohemian hospital or orphan
asylum for Cook County. If no such
Institution is organized within three
years the bequest becomes void
Lille Schoenhofen, daughter, is
to receive e5, 600 in English de-
benture bonds, $500 in preferred
stock, and e5,740 of the common
stock or equivalent in money. This
handsome fortune she will possess at
once, if 81 years of age. If over
that she will receive the amount, to-
gether with g per cent. interest
thereon from the time she became
81. The other children are not men
toned In the will, because in his lie
time the testator gave them in brew
ing stock and bonds the same amount
begueathed to Lille. The residue
Of the stock, which is considerable,
is left to the widow and children In
equal amounts, with the provision
that when any one of them dies his
or her share Is % be distributed
equally among the surviving mem
heis of the family.
The will was drawn by Lackner y
nutl aud was witnessed by j, Nocken,
Ir. Charles Meyer aud o. Retl.
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