The evening times., 1897-07-01
MONEY FOR HIS employees
Remarkable Will of Henry Lille
Pierce, the Boston Millionaire.
NOT ONE WAS FORGOTTEN
Nearly a Million Dollars Given to
Persons who Worked for Him.
A Request of S200,00o to Thomas
Bailey AIdrich. the Poet-Edttor.
Money Given to Charity.

Baltimore, Md, j uly line VIII OF
Henry Lille Pierce, a Boston millionaire
manufacturer, which has been filed for
probate this week in the office of the
register CT wills in Baltimore, is refuark-
able for the large number Of important
requests to public institutions, friends
and employees.
Mr. Pierce died in Boston on december
II last and the will has been filed in
Baltimore because OF the fact that he mad
considerable holdings in real estate here
1t was offered for probate by Attorney
William E. Hoffman.
For fcrty-two years prior TO his death
MT Pierce had been head OF the large
establishment manufacturing Walter Baker
* Co.'S cocoa. He as born in Stouchton,
4, Mass, in 1925, was educated in the public
schools and the Normal School at Bridge
water His connection with the chocolate
business began in lS49.
For fifty years lie took an active part
In Massachusetts, politics. He was elected
to the State legislature in 1860; was mayor
of Boston in 1872; was elected to Congress
as a Republican in 1873 and 1875, decIin-
ing reelection in 1877, and accepting
reelection as mayor the same year. Since
1854 he had acted with the Democrats
One Of the most remarkable provisions Of
the VIII is the distribution of nearly a
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
cluees several hundred persons.
TO ]. Frank Rowland and II. C. Gala
CHER, who 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 Il. Brooks, jr, a
clerk in lis employ, was left $50, 900 each.
To Charles A. Pope, Robert NJ Hall, John
f. 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 10 Joseph
A Fuller and Samuel b Hopkins, two more
clerks, is given $50, 900 each, and the same
sum il also bequeathed to II. II. HogiRs,
Of New York city, "who has for many
years rendered Inc valuable services in the
purchase OF material for my manufacturing
business Luke NJ. Dermott, an esnploye,
! is given $4,000, and Nathaniel Humphrey,
"a laborer in NY employ" is given like
amount.
y codieil made a year or so after the
wil was flrst 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 Massacbu-
sets Homeopathic Hospital, who are also
made his residuary legatees.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars to the town
OF Stoughton, his birthplace, for books fol
free library.
Twenty thousand dollars each To the Mas
| sachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infir,
mary, Boston Childrens Hospital, Per
kins Institute for the Blind, New England
| Hospital for Women and Children, Boston
| Home for Aged Men, Boston Home for Agec
| Women, Boston Home for Aged Couples
| Bostoa Home for IncurahleS, Society for
the Collegiate instruction OF Women, Mas
siichusctts Society for the Prevention oi
| Cruelty to Children, and Boston Lying-Ir
Hospital.
Five thousand dollars each to the Boston
Children's Aid Society, Massachusetts Com
mandery 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 ant
Roman Catholic churches Of Dorches.e
Lower Mills and the EpiscopaIian Chnrcl
! OF Ashmont
To the Boston park commission, to -
added TO the public parks Of that city, is he
qneathed his valuable suburban estate ant
farm. adjoining the park tract, known "A
the Blue Hills reservation.
Mr.. Pierce's only surviving brother is lib
orally remembered in the will, with othe
relatives, and the sum of 5000, 900 is left t,
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the poet aud editor
/ whose home is in Boston, and who was al
intimate friend of the millionaire