The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-14
WETHERELL WILL
Disposes Of an Estate
Worth Nearly a
Million.
MANY PUBLIC REQUESTS MADE.
Charitable Institutions Re-
ceive Large
Sums.
MANY PUBLIC REQUESTS MADE

of property estimated to value nearly a
million dollars.
The will was drawn up Dec. 81, 1897,
in the presence of Charles F. Wyman,
George S. Taft, and Frank S. Dresser.
The executors named by Mrs. Wetherell
are Lincoln N. Kinnicutt and T. Hovey
Gage, Jr.
Mrs. Wetherell was the daughter Of
Rejoice Newton, after whom Newton
hill is named. Her husband, Col. Weth-
erell, was a member of the staff of John
Andrew, war governor of Massachu-
sets. The will filed yesterday is notable
from the large sums that are left to
charitable and educational institutions.
The private requests, however, are gem
erouS ~
The children of her uncle, Isaac New
ton are the only exception. They are
left but the lump sum of 800, to show
that they are not forgotten" to quote
the words of Mrs Wetherell, who further
states that she did not leave them more
for reasons known to herself.
The public requests are; Worcester
Children's Friend society, $4,000 to hold
and invest and to apply the income
thereof only to the uses and purposes of
said society
Washburn Home for Aged Women,
$4,000.
Home for Aged Men, $4,000, to hold
and invest and to apply the income
thereof only to the uses and purposes
of said home
Temporary Home and Day Nursery
$4,000, to hold and invest and to apply
the income thereof only to the uses and
purposes of said corporation.
Worcester Art Museum, $4,000.
Worcester Employment society, $10,-
900, to hold and invest and to apply the
income thereof only to the uses and
purposes of said society.
Worcester Boys club, $4,000, to hold
and invest and to apply the income
thereof only to the uses and purposes
of said club.
Worcester Natural History society,
$4,000, to hold and invest and to apply
the income thereof only to the use and
purposes of said society.
To the incorporated society or associ-
alton which maintains and supports
district nurses, and in which Miss Mary
N. Perle!- is interested, the sum of $4,000
to be held and invested for the benefit
of said society, and the income thereof
only used and applied for its objects and
purposes.
Worcester Society of Antiquity, $4,000
to hold and invest for the benefit of
said society, and the income thereof
only used and applied for its objects and
purposes.
Memorial hospital, $300O to hold and
invest and to apply the income thereof
only to the uses and purposes of said
hospital
Good Samaritan society of Worces-
ter, $1,000 to be held and invested for
its benefit and the income thereof only
applied to the charitable objects of said
society.
Kittrell Institute of Kittrell N c., of
which John R. Hawkins is president,
the principal sum of $4,000.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, $4,000,
to hold, invest, and apply the income
thereof only to the uses of said insti-
tute; also to said Worcester Polytech.,
mic certain estate situated on the south
side of Court street in Worcester, and
In rear of and acjoining the First Uni
tartan hurch.
The principal requests to relatives
follow: Mrs. Penelope Winslow Can
field of Worcester, $4,000; Mrs Pene-
lope W. S. Garfield of Worcester, $4,000 !:
Waldo Lincoln of Worcester, $4,000
Frances M. Lincoln of Worcester,
$4,000; Mary L. Davis, wife of Joseph
E. Davis of Boston, $4,000; Winslow S.
Lincoln of Worcester, $1,000; each of the
children of Winslow S. Lincoln of Wor-
cester, who may be living, $1,000; JOS
eph Parker Mason of Plainf1eld, N j.,
$4,000; Katharine Won w. Lincoln,
widow of Edward Winslow Lincoln
late of Worcester, $4,000; each of the
children of Edward Winsiow Lincoln
who may be living, $1,000; Mary ].
Dickinson of Brattleboro, VT, in af-
fectionate remembrance, $4,000; Freder-
lex q. Dickinson of Brattleboro, $4,000;
Charlotte Fisher of Lancaster, $4,000;
Mrs. Annie Hunt Coburn, wife of AL
bert A. Coburn of Oskaloosa, l., $1,000;
Sarah Rebecca Estabrook, wife of Ar
thur F. Estabrook of Leicester, $1,000;
Osgood and Arthur, sons of said Sarah
Rebecca Estabrook, each $1000 Jose
phine S. Brock of Worcester, $1,000; Ann
M. Bugbee of Worcester, $1,000.
To old household domestics, Maggie
Powers, who lived with her so long
$500, and Abbie j., widow of Michael
Gaffney, late of Worcester, 5000.
The terms of the will continue in the
following language:
| give to each of the children of my
uncle, Isaac Newton who may be living
at my decease, 800, that it may be
known that have not forgotten them,
put for reasons known to myself l do
not desire to make further provision.
All my real estate, situated in the
westerly part of said Worcester, and
formerly known as the Newton farm,
belonging to my father, Rejoice New
ton, Esq, together with whatever addi-
lions may have been made thereto by
purchase or otherwise, that is to say,
all my real estate situated in said Wor-
cester, except the estate on State street,
where live, my estate on Court street
and my estate on Waldo street | give
and devise to Lincoln N. Kinnicutt, of
SAID Worcester, and his heirs, in trust,
nevertheless, as hereafter set forth. for
the use and benefit, or to one undivided
sixth part thereof of Rebecca X. Fran
els, wife of George E. Francis of Wor-
cester; as to one undivided 18th part
thereof of William x. Draper of New
York city; as to one undivided 18th
part thereof of Martha l.. Draper of
New York. as to one undivided sixth
part thereof Of Julia B. Barker, widow
Of John M Barker, late OF Worcester.
as to one undivided sixth part thereof
OF, Frank p. Kinnicutt of New York. as
to one undivided sixth part thereof of
Lincoln N. Kinnicutt and as to one nm
divided sixth part thereof of Leonard
P, Kinnicutt of Worcester and their
respective heirs
And / direct my said trustees and
succ sssors to manage and develop said
estate according to the general plan
and schedule prepared by J. w. Weth-
erell and myself
The trustee is empowered to sell all
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