The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-26
MRS. ELLI0T'S
WISH OBEYED.
Yerxa Corner on Nicollet Avenue
Conveyed to Regents for the
Building.
WILL BE LOCATED ON
THE EAST RIVER BANK
Gift, Valued at $4,000, Is q
Memorial to the Late DR..
A. F. Elliott.

Walter j. Trask, former Mime.
apoltan, now an attorney at Los An
geleS, Cal., has conveyed in the form
OF trust tor the establishment OF a
university OF Minnesota hospital the
property on the corner of Firth street
ana N1collet avenue, known as the
fef2a property, conservarlvely valued
at $lfo,OUO. The endowement-the
largest ever received at the UNIVERSE
ty-tultils the wish OF the late Mrs.
Mary Ellen Elliot, who died Jan, 20
IN Santa Monica, Cal, leaving Mr..
Irask her sole legatee, with the YER
Dal request that he erect at the univer-
SHY suitable memorial Tor her huS-
band, DR.. Adolphus +. Elliot.
Inc announcement OF this latest gift
to the university will come as COM
plete surprise to university authorities,
altho at the time of Mrs. Elliot IS death
dispatches from California announced
that provision OF her will called for
large bequest to the university. In
vestlgation showed that this rumor
was unfounded, and that her entire
estate had been left to Mr.. Trask, a
friend OF her husband. 1t now appears
that Mrs. Elliot told Mr. Trask before
her death Of her wish to erect at the
university a memorial for her husband.
and the transfer of the Yerxa corner,
made yesterday, is the elimination of
this request.
Once Gave a Loan Fund.
Dr.. Elliot, when a practicing physi-
clan in Minneapolis took a deep inter.
est in the university, and his wife was
the founder Of the $4,000 Elliot loan
fund now being used to help needy and
deserving students in the school of
mines. He was man of no college
education, but often expressed his be-
lief in the good work being done by
the university, and his intention Of
helping the institution in some perma-
announced her intention Of carrying
out her husband IS wishes and her re-
quest that Mr.. Trask use portion Of
the Elliot estate to erect a memorial
for DR.. Elliot, was the result of this
! determination. Mr.. Trask was left en-
tirely free as to the amount and nature
Of the gift, altho it was generally ex-
pected at, the university that should
the "Elliot bequest" materialize the
neering and philosophical departments
of the university, in which DR.. Elliot
had been especially interested. After
looking the situation over, Mr.. Trask
decided, however, that public hospi-
tai, erected primarily for the benefit of
the university medical school, would be
the most fitting memorial to DR.. Elliot,
and in his choice the university regents
agreed.
Property Just Transferred.
The Yerxa corner, part of the
estate left Mr.. Trask, was transferred
yesterday, and it is probable that the
regents will take immediate steps to
dispose of the property and commence
"a 4bo FOL 1s
planned to put all the amount realized
from the sale into the hospital building.
and money for the purchase of a loca-
tion and for larger hospital building
fund will be raised by private dona-
tions if possible.
The hospital will probably be built
on the river bank, east Of the univer-
bridge; It will be public, under the
supervision of the university medical
department, and will add greatly to the
practical efficiency of the medical
school, as the embryo doctors will not
be obliged to journey all over the twin
pital work. Clinics for the classes will
be held in the'building.
Rooms will be set aside as university
rooms for the use of sick students.
Had No Near Relatives.
Mrs. Elliot, at whose request the gift
was made, was formerly Miss Mary
Ellen Hoar, a daughter of Michael
Hoar, employed on the Sibley estate at
Weston fifty years ago. On her moth
er's death she was cared for by Mrs.
iRichard Holbrook and assumed the
name of Holbrook. She was married
to Dr.. Elliot twelve years ago and had
no immediate relatives.
The choice by Mr.. Trask of hospital
as a most fitting memorial for DIR. and
Mrs. Elliot is approved by the instruc-
tors in all the departments Of the uni
versity who have heard of the gift.
and philosophical departments had ex-
pected that should the memorial mate
rialize it would be in the nature of
donation to their departments, there is g
unanimous feeling that the money could
not be expended more wisely than by
the erection Of university public hos.
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