The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-05
$10,OOO FROM J. w. T1ENDRIE.

| For the California Academy of Sciences
 His Gifts to Yale University and to
 the Mercantile Library of San Fran
 cisco Reach Many Thousands.
 "John w. Hendre of Sound Beach, "
 Conn, says the Stamford Advocate, | ''Whose gift of a thousand dollars to the Ferguson Library was announced a few days ago by the trustees of that institu- | ton, and who has made large gifts to | Yale, as well as to philanthropic and ed | ucational institutions in California, where for many years he was actively
 and successfully engaged in extensive
 business enterprises, has just made a. gift of ten thousand dollars to the Cali forna Academy of Sciences. The San
 Francisco Chronicle acknowledges tho
 gift in the following article:
 John w. Hendrie, an old California
 merchant, who accumulated a sufficient fortune to retire from active business, and who now makes his home on the farm at Sound Beach Conn.,, on which he was born, sent letter to the presi- dent of the California Academy of Sci ences yesterday, enclosing local securi- ties, the market value of which aggre- gates over ten thousand dollars. It was an unconditional gift and is to be used by the officers as they deem best for the institution. MT Hendrie is a bachelor, and has given away considerable money under similar circumstances.
 "Mr. Hendrie was born in November, 1921. He did farm work until he was twenty-two years of age, when he taught a district school with compensation of seventeen dollars a month. AS a side source of revenue he engaged in the lobs- ter industry and net fishing. which in- creased his income to about seventy dol Jars month.
 "Afterward he taught in the grammar school at New Haven, and from that place he entered Yale college, from which he graduated in the class of '51. For three years he had charge of Stam- ford university, but in 1854 he got the gold fever, and, collecting ten thousand dollars, started for San Francisco.
 "He engaged in the clothing trade here, with several connections in the interior. Fortune prospered so rapidly that at the end of nine years he had an indepen- dent fortune. His partner was H. M. a manufacturer of New York, with whom he is associated to this day
 Since he left the state he has resided in New Haven, but fre- quently visits California in the winter not man of scientific re- search, he has always taken a great in terest in the Academy Of Sciences, and is a life member of that organization The gift yesterday is supposed to have re- suited from a jocular remark made by | an officer to him on his last visit. He was requested to remember the acade- my when he was distributing his money among the deserving institutions.
 Two years ago Mir. Hendrie made a gift of fifteen thousand dollars to the Library of this city, and on November of that year reception was given in his honor which was largely attended This spring, hearing that the institute was still in, debt, and knowing hat the new officers were working to wipe out the indebtedness, Mr. Hendrie supplemented his first do- ration with one thousand dollars.
 "In May 1897, five months before he made the Mercantile Library donation, 1e made a gift of fifty thousand dollars o the building fund of Yale college"