Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-04
Josiah White Bequeathed $40,
600 For the Founding of
Manual Training School
OTHER DICTATES OF THE WILL
The Above School Is to Be Located
Near Salem, la, and Another $780,
600 is to Be Similarly Expended in
the Indian Reserve, Indiana-Empha-
sizes Religious Education.

Salem, Sept. 4.--Word has been re-
lceived here that Josiah White, the
noted Quaker who died recently. be-
queathed $4,000 for the founding of
a manual training school near this city.
According to the dictates of the will
one half of the sum is to be expended
in purchasing suitable site for the in
stltution, and the remainder to be used
in erecting suitable buildings. In adj
dition to the school here Mr. White be-
queathed another $4,000 to be similar
ly expended in the Indiana reserve, In
diana. He provides that the school
shall be Incorporated under the laws of
the state, and that 1t shall be directed
by committee of Quakers. Also that
the property thus purchased shall never
be transferred or encountered by debt
His will is in part as follows:
''Inasmuch as it has pleased the Lord
to prosper me in the things Of this
world 50 as to be able to return the es-
tate given me by my families above
other legacies, to institutions, etc, and
to appropriate to my beloved children
including the amount they will receive
from their mother, my beloved wife, as
much perhaps as will be Of anv use &c
them, and III addition sufficient tc be-
gin and perpetrate manual labor
school. or two schools, in the free states
of the west, for poor children. white
colored and Indian. as many as the an
nual products of the land | propose to
buy will support-such as have not the
means to procure schooling, board anc
clothing themselves, from time and
conditions l may hereafter direct.
Believing that such religious ed
ucation, strictly maintained from the
early age of to 8 years and kept w
from Is to 81 years of age, would under
the blessings of our Redeemer. who did
so much and also died for men, be 9
blessing to many thru life, whateve.
may be their change of circumstances
and may by divine blessing be instru-
mental in leading many souls to Christ
and thus this or these schools may be
useful to numbers in this world thru
many ages.
And To have my intentions and de-
sires carried out as above expressed,
do hereby give and devise to two man
ual labor schools, to be located in the
free states in the west, the sum of $780,
90 to each said two schools and to pre-
vent embarrassment executives and
executors, do hereby direct that what
ever portion of the said $4,000 shall re-
main unappropriated at my decease OF
the said sum or sums. that all such de-
ficiencies shall be made up by a. trans
fer of mortgage loan of the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Company, at par, and
the Lehigh Crane Iron Company stock
at 500 per share, as my said sXecu-
trices and executors may elect.
And l do hereby direct that the land
for these schools be bought where
am now in negotiation to purchase il
they can be, viz: A tract one and one
half miles square in Iowa, near Salem
and tract two miles square in thu
Indiana reserve, Indiana; and Ii these
tracts cannot be bought, to buy as nea,
them in point quality. price and health
fulness, as can be accomplished. so that
not exceeding one-half the sum of $780,
900 allowed to each place be laid out in
the land and its improvement, and the
other half in the buildings necessary.