The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-09
LARGE REQUEST TO BUOHTEL
COLLEGE.
Mrs. Elvira Ainsworth of Lodi, Makes the
College Her Residuary Legatee-From
s25, 900 to $50 900 will be Realized-A
Noble Woman and Her Gifts.

II has recently been made known that
Mrs. ELvIRA AINswoRTH of Lodi, O.,
who died August 30. 1897 aged IS years,
made Buchtel College her reeiduary
ltgatee, and that from twenty five to
thirty thousand dollars will come to the
college on the final settlement of her
estate. Her will has been duly probated,
and after many gifts to relatives and
friends, $1,000 was bequeathed to the
Ohio Masonic Home at Springfield. and
the same amount to the Lodi Library
and the Ohio Univerealist Convention
for the Permanent Fund. The balance
of the estate goes to the Trustees of
Buchtel College, as stated above.
Mrs. Ainsworth was the widow of
Henry Ainswortb, who also left by be-
quest large sum to Buchtel College.
She was noble woman, whose life has
been largely devoted to acts of charity
and benevolence. Her abundant means
were generously used for the benefit of
the deserving poor. But she always
avoided publicity and would hardly re-
ceive thanks from the recipients of her
bounty. She also during her life gave
freely to the charitable institutions not
only at home but in other places. Mrs.
Ainsworth was the donor of the entire
water-plant and the beautiful fountain
that adorns the park in her native town.
She also gave to Lodi village the house
for the fire department of the village and
the equipment at an expense of several
thousand dollars. She was also a bene-
factor of the Woman's College at Cleve.
land, and endowed the Elvira Ainsworth
room in the Masonic Home at Spring
field, and jointly with Mrs. Clarissa A.
Rounds, purchased and fitted up Home
for Aged Women at Lodi, and endowed
it handsomely. By these various gifts
she entered while living into the enjoy
ment Of her own beneicence and now
that she has done with this world she
leaves her estate mainly to Buchtei
College for the advancement of educa
ton under the auspices of the church
she loved and of which her husband was
also benefactor.
Mrs. Ainsworth resided for two years
past at he Home she founded in Lodi,
but she died at Magnetic Springs, Union
County. o., whittier she had gone in
company with her young friend, Miss
Gertrude E. Ellis, for few weeks stay.
hoping to recuperate her health and find
rest from her many cares. While at the
Springs she was stricken with pneu-
monia. which in brief time terminated
her life. The remains we're taken to
Lodi, where her funeral took place,
attended by large concourse Of people,
all OF whom were sincere mourners.
The services we're conducted by Presi-
dent Priest, of Buchtel College. assisted
by the pastor of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church of Lodi.
Thus passes away noble woman who
will be remembered hereafter as one
of the woman philanthropists of Ohio.
Her bequest to the college and to the
other institutions which received her
gifts will keep her memory green, and
her endowments will go on during future
years as source of blessing to mankind.
May we have more such worthy dispoei-
tions of wealth to record in these
columns.