The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-06
vANH0RN'S
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ToCHARITY
Thirty-Fiye institutions
Of Essex to Share
in His Million.
WILL PROVIDES SI5O,OOO
FOR MONUMENT FUND
Shafts to Soldiers and Sailors,
Abraham Lincoln and George
Washington.
FAITHFUL EMPLOYEES
GENEROUSLY REWARDED
Divides Residue in Shares After
Bequests TO Family and
Friends.
FAITHFUL EMPLOYEES
GENEROUSLY REWARDED

Amos H. Van Horn, the wealthy fur
niture dealer of this city, who died De-
cember 2e, left the bulk of his fortune,
valued at close to s1,000,0O0, to thirty
five charitable institutions in Essex
county, to twenty of his faithful en-
ployees and provided three monument
funds. aggregating s15OOO0. His will
was admitted to probate today.
The amount of his public donations is
much larger than was at first supposed.
Every charitable organization of i'm
portance in the county was remembered
with substantial legacy, and the large
fortune which lie had built up through
Years of successful business in Newark
SIS largely distributed among the chari-
ties of the county.
Beyond bequests of 100000 for a
monument TO soldiers and sailors, to be
erected in Military Park; s25,oO0 for q
monument to Abraham Lincoln, to be
erected in Lincoln Park, and s25, 900
for monument to George Washing
ton, to be placed in Washington Pask.
numerous bequests are made to old
and faithful employees who helped
him TO build rp his fortune.
Tire list of employees remembered in
the VIII follows:
Herbert Cline. 5000; John Wallace Wal
role, Itee0; John s. Rossna gle, $1,000;
Charles e. Dean. s3,oo5: Christopher Rowe,
$500; George Cline: s2C0o; William B. Cnn-
ningl1am 5000 Van vlcet Green, $500:
>$chn w. Park 5000: Henry f. E. Kritz-
7nacheI, 5000; John Davis $1,000; Amos H.
Griffith, $1,000; Philip Livingston and Ralph
Emerson Lum, .or to the survivor" $1,000
Harry Sands $500; Alice Sheets $1,000;
Margaret Golwaler, $3.50: Mrs. Iona Kress,
Mrs. Anna A. Jessup, $1,000
The executors are Ralph e. Lum,
George w. Wire and John Martinios,
who get $1,000 each.
Institutions Named in the VIII.
The residue OF his fortune, after be-
quests to relatives and friends have
been named, he directs shall be divided
into thirty-fiye equal shares and dis
posed of as follows:
The Home for the Friendless. half
share; Babies Hospital of Newark
half share; Bethany Hme for the Aged,
quarter share; Bureau of Associated
Charities, a half share; Catholic Chill
dren's Aid Association of New Jersey a.
quarter share; Christian Refuge, New
ark, quarter share; Eighth Avenue
Day Nursery and Baby Shelter, parter
share Florence Crittenton Home, New
ark a quarter share: German Hos
pital, Newark, two shares; Hebrew Be
nevolent and Orphan Asylum Society,
quarter share; Homeopathic Hospital,
one. share; Home' for Crippled Children,
half share; Home for Insurables, one
share; Young Womens Christian Asso-
citation, two shares; Home for Respect
pital for Women and Children, three
shares; Jay Street Day Nursery, quar-
ter share; J. Clement French Indus
trial Home, quarter share; Job Haines
n pod ioId a
share; Marekt Street Day Nursery,
quarter share; Newark Boys Club, one
share; Newark Charitable Eye and
Newark Female Charitable Society, one
share; Newark Orphan Asylum Associ-
alton one share; Newark Settlement
Foster Home one share; st. Barnabas's
Hospital, three shares; st. Jamess Hos
pital, three shares; St, Michaers Hos
ppitaII; three shares; 81, Marys Orphan
Christian Association. two and a half
shares; Little Sisters of the Poor a
quarter share; New Jersey orthopedic
Hospital and Dispensary Orange, half
share; Day Nursery of the Oranges
quarter share Baptist Home for Aged
Newark. three-q quarters of share.
Requests are made to a niece, two
nephews and cousins, to be paid not
later than one year after the death OF
the testator's two sisters, as follows:
sons of Mrs. Ida Chapman s17, 500 each: to
Mary Chapman, daughter of Ida Chapman
$12, 500; to two daughters of the testator's
deceased brother. Silas Van Horn $1,000
each; to William Van Horn, a son of Silas
Van Horn, $500; to my cousin, George Van
Horn son of my cousin, James Van Horn
of Pottsvile Livingston county, Mich,
$1,000; to my cousin Stephen Van Horn,
son of my cousin. James Van Horn, $1,000;
to my cousin. John Edward Van Horn
$1,000; to my cousin, John Van Horn, 81 500
and to Mae Dasshiel, of Washington, D.
c., daughter of my cousin Caroline Hull
s2.50o. and to George Kitcher, son of my
cousin, Mary r. Riker, $1,000, and to my
old friend, Otto Herres Of Denver, Col, |
1900
Substantial anruities are made to |
nine relatives of the testator,, among
them Mrs. Minerva Jane Van Horn, his !
sister. who also receives the use of a |
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