The evening times., 1897-07-01
MONEY FOR his EMPLOYEES
Remarkable Will Of Henry Lille
Pierce, the Boston Millionaire.
NOT ONE WAS FORGOTTEN
Nearly Million Dollars Given to
Persons who Worked for Him.
A BeqGest of 100000 to Thomas
Bailey Aldrich, the Poet-Editor.
Money Given to Charity.

Baltimore, Md, July 1. The will OF
Henry Lille Pierce, Boston millionaire
manufacturer, which has been filed for
probate this week in the office OF the
register OF wills in Baltimore, is rernark-
able for the large number of important
bcquests to pubhc Institutions, friends
and employees.
Nj. Pierce died in Boston on december
II last and the will has been filed in
Baltimore because of the fact that he had
considerable holdings in real estate here.
1t was offered for probate by Attorney
William +. Hoffman.
For fcrty-two years prior to his death
Mr. Pierce had been head OF the large
establishment anufacturing Walter Baker
X Co.'S cocoa. He W as born in StoughtOn,
Mass in 1925, was educated in the public
schools and the Normal School at Bridge
water. His connection with the chocolate
business began in 1S49.
For fifty years he took m active part
in Massachusetts politics. He was elected
to tie State legislature IN 1860; was mayor
of Boston in 1872; was elected to Congress
as a Republican in 1873 and 1875, declin-
ing a reelection in 1877, and accepting
a reelection as mayor the same year. Since
1884 ne had acted with the Democrats.
One Of the most remarkable provisions of
the viii is the distribution of nearly
million dollars to his employees To each
person, male or female, in his employ us
an operative, laborer or domestic, at the
time OF his death, 500 is left This in
cluces several hundred persons.
10 j. Frank Rowland and II. c. Gala
CHER, W no had long been in his employ, was
left 100000 each. To Frank s. Hall,
manager of the New York agency of his
business and to william II. Brooks, jr.,
clerk in lis employ was left $50, 900 each.
To Charles A. Pope, Robert VI. Hall, John
+. Dodge. Harry Delano. Richard Poison,
Charles A. Aldrich and Talbot Aldrich,
seven of his clerks, is given $40, 900 each.
To Than A. Cushing, superintendent Of his
mills, is also given $4,000 To Joseph
A Fuller and Samuel b Hopkins, two more
clerks, is given 100000 each, and the same
sum is also bequeathed to II. II. Hogins,
of New York city, 'who has for many
years rendered Inc valuable services In the
purchase of material for my manufacturing
business" Luke N. Dermott, an eirploye,
is given $4,000, and Nathaniel Humphrey,
"a laborer in my employ" is given a like
amount.
~ oodicil made a year or so after the
" ii was first drafted increases TO four the
number of clerks who are to receive $780,
900 each.
His requests to public institutions and
charities include the following:
Fifty thousand dollars each To Harvard
University, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bos-
ton Museum OF Fine Arts and Massachu-
sets Homeopathic Hospital, who are also
made his residuary legatees.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars to the town
OF stoughton, his birthplace, for books for
free library.
Twenty thousand dollars each to the Mas
sachusCtts Charitable Eye and Ear Infir-
mary, Boston Children's Hospital. Per
kins Institute for the Blind, New England
Hospital for Women and Children, Boston
Home for Aged Men, Boston Home for Aged
Women, Boston Home for Aged Couples,
B1stoa Home for IncurahlcS. Society for
the Collegiate instruction of Women, Mas
sitchusctts Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty TO Children, and Boston Lying-In
Hospital.
Five thousand dollars each to the Boston
Childrcn's Aid Society, Massachusetts Com
nandery Of the Loyal Legion, Boston Home
for Aged COlored Women, and the Charming
Home.
Three thousand dollars each TO the Meth
cdist, Baptist, orthodox, Unitarian and
Roman Catholic churches of Dorchester
Lower Mills and the Epscopalian Chnrch
OF Ashmont.
To the Boston park commission To II,
added TO the public parks OF that city, is be-
queathed his valuable suburban estate and
farm. adjoining the park tract, known as
the BlIe Hills reservation.
Mr. Pierce's only surviving brother is lib
orally remembered in the will, with other
relatives. and the sum of 5000, 900 is left TO
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the poet and editor,
whose home is in Boston, and who was an
intimate friend of the millionaire