The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-16
Many Institutions in Birming- ham Are BenefciarieS Under
 Will Probated Yesterday
QUAKER SCHOOLS GIVEN
 NEARLY S10,O00 IN MONEY
More Than Half of the Estate, Valued at About $57,ooo, Is Left for Charitable and Benevo-
 lent Purposes.

The will of the late Dr. Dicia H. Baker was probated yesterday in the office of the probate court, the Birmingham Trust and Savings company being named in the will as executor The value of the es- tate left by the pioneer woman physician of Birmingham can only as yet be esti- mated, but the bond was fixed on the estimate by the executor that the person. ality Is $37 ,000, and the value of the real estate $20,O0O Of the personality $22,50O is life insurance.
 The will is more than generous in it's be- quests to charity and benevolence. The Guilford College Girls Home. in Gulford county, North Carolina, is given S5Oo0 in money and one-thlrd the net proceeds of the real estate at the winding up of the estate. Dr. Bakers other realty consists of her home at 620 North Nineteenth street, and house and lot on the corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-fourth street
 To the Frances Willard Workings Girls Home in Chattanooga she gave $500 in money.
 To the Friends church foreign mission AAN~ Income from her real estate and one third the net proceeds of her realty at the winding up of the estate, which under the provisions of the will is four or five years in the future
 Her bequests to local institutions are as follows: Mercy Home. $1O0; East Lake orphanage, s1OO; St. Vincent's hospital, S1OO; Y. w. C. A, S100; Y. M. c. A, SlOo; Salvation Army Rescue home, $500 These are to be paid out of 50 per cent of her outstanding accounts. which she estimates at from S25OO to 5000.
 To her partner in the practice of medi- cine, Dr. Annie M. Robinson, Dr. Baker left her horse and carriage, her medical appliances and equipment, books and bookcases and her household furniture.
 The remainder of the estate is divided among the mother, Mrs E, Cameron of | Los Angeles, Cal, and the brothers and sisters Mrs. Sallie F. Chenneworth of Perryvllle, Ind; James s. Cameron of Knoxville Tenn. Robert L. Cameron oi Los Angeles, Cal; Mrs. Bertha Beler oi Los Angeles, Cal; Mrs. Mamie M. Bird of Knoxville, Tenn; Mrs. Hattie c. Jones of Jellico, Tenn; Mrs. Ella s. Smith of Indianapolis. Ind, and Mrs Ida F. Floyd of Corbin, Ky
 Dr. Baker was born in Sevier county, 1 Tennessee, and made her own way to suc- cess At one time she taught school, and | at another sold books to earn the money for completing her education, She at tended the Quaker school at the Girls Home in North Carolina, which is the principal beneficiary of her benevolent be- quests.
 She also attended the Maryville Normal school in Tennessee, which Is likewise a | Quaker institution.
 She had been practicing physician in l Birmingham for eight years, and had not only built up large and lucrative practice, but had won for herself a recog- nized place in the esteem and confidence of the community. The large proportion of her estate, about half of which she 1 leaves to charity, Is almost if not en- | tirely without precedent in this section oi l the country. pr. Baker was A years old at the time of her death and had never married,