Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-08
New York Bankers Will Pro-
vides for Gift to LeGrand
Christian College
GRANDNlEcE WILL CONTEST 1T
Palmer Was to Have Forgiven His
Grandniece, Mrs. Rockwell, on the
Sunday Following His Death-Was
DispIeased at Her Scond Marriage
Estate Valued at $4,000.


York home, $50 Madison avenue, ha
provided in his will for gift of $4,000
to Palmer College, LeGrand. Thi
amount was promised the trustees o
the college some time ago, but a dis
patch sent out to the press shortly afte
Mr.. Palmer's death was to the effec
that the colleges that he had been help
/ ing would receive no more, for Nj
! Palmer's estate had been largely over
estimated.
Mr. Palmer's estate is found to bs
j valued at $950,000, and by the provis.
ions of the will the bulk of 1t goes tt
j the Francis Asbury Palmer fund, bu
I fund shall be devoted TO. Besides the
/ $4,000 given to Palmer College, $1,000
is donated to the Westminster county
New York, home for destitute children
/ $1,000 to Hamilton College; $4,000 tt
| Elton College, North Carolina; and ar
annuity for life to James r. Palmer
q brother.
The only thing that now promises to
stand in the way of the provisions OF
the will being carried out is Mrs. Susie
Crampton- Rockwell. Of New York, a
grandniece of Mr.. Palmer, who was to
have been his heir, and who has been
cut off without shilling. Mr.. Palmer
was displeased at his grandniece sew
eral years ago, when she was married
for the second time, and then vowed he
would disinherit her. The Sunday after
he died, however, Mr.. Palmer had set
as a time to see his niece and perfect a
reconciliation. 1t is said Mrs. Rockwell
will contest the will and demand a
share of the estate.
The New York Tribune has an In
teresting review of Mr.. Planners trou-
bic with his grandniece, and something
on his gifts of years past, including his
endowment of year ago of $4,000 to
Palmer College. The Tribune says:
"a reconciliation between the late
Francis Asbury Palmer and his grand
niece, Mrs. Susan Lewis Rockwell. who
displeased him by a second marriage a
few years ago, would have taken place
on Sunday if Mr.. Palmer would have
lived twentyfour hours longer. When
he was on his deathbed last week he
said to one of his trusted attendants:
81 have forgiven Susie and / am go-
ing to make it all right with her Sun
cay
HE sent a friendly message to Mrs.
Rockwell, asking her to visit him at his
rome, No. $50 Madison avenue, on Sun
day. He died on Saturday.
Mrs. Rockwell was Mr.. Palmer's fa-
yorite grandniece, and for years she
lived at his home like a daughter and
was told by him that she should be his
heir. Sixteen years ago, when she was
to J. Miller Champion. he gave
to her the house at No. 10 West Sew
enty-first street, where she continued
to live during the life and after the
death of her first husband. Mr. Palmer
was violently opposed to second mar
riages, and she did not inform him of
her marriage to Samuel d. Rockwell.
When he was informed by an anony-
nous letter two years after the mar
rage he stopped her income of $4,000
per year which he had allowed her. He
said he would cut her out of his will.
He had a brother 80 years old in Cali
fornia and several grandnieces and
and he sent to them
checks for amounts which he had in
tended to leave to them by will. He
divided part Of his estate also with the
employees of the National Broadway
Bank and of the Broadway Savings
Bank, of which he has been president
'or years. He said he was going to be
lis own executor He sold his stocB
n the National Broadway Bank and
gave 100000 to found the Palmer In
;titute at Muncie, Ind, and gave $780,
100 to the Starkey Seminary at Eddy
own, N. j., and 100000 to the Palmer
College at LeGrand, Iowa. 1t was I'M
lerstood that he meant to leave addi- +
ional sums to those and other educa
ional institutions. His mind was clear
md active when he died at the age
If 90.
Twelve years ago Mr. Palmer gave
o Mrs. Rockwell 1000 shares of the
National Broadway Bank stock, valued
It about $250,000, transferring the Ger I
ificates to her, and the stock was regis
cred in her name. At his request in /,
Sa4, when he said he wanted to use
he stock, she signed 1t over to him I
gain. After their quarrel she demanded 1
he return of the stock, but he declared
he could not have it. Last spring she
'egan suit, thru her attorney, Rastus 5
J. Ransom, for the value of the stock,
Ir. Palmer having sold it in the mean
ime. His attorneys made fight in the
ourts against an application to have
Mr.. Palmer examined in the suit, but /
hey We're beaten, and on Oct. Is MI
Palmer was obliged to testify about the
lift of the bank stock to Mrs. Rockwell {
The suit begun against Mr.. Palmer may
,e continued against his estate II his
9ill does not give Mrs. Rockwell the
UNI she sued for. He was ready to set {
lie the suit and give to Mrs. Rockwell Y
ne value of the stock which had been Y
lis gift to her, but he was attacked by !
fatal illness and did not live long {
nough TO be reconciled to her" /
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