New-York tribune., 1910-12-15
EDDY WILL PROBATED::
NEARLY ALL TO CULT
Mother Church Made Residuary
Legatee After a Number
of Bequests.
CHURCH HERE GETS $4,000
Diamond Pin for Mrs. Stetson-
100000 to Train Scientists
Near Relatives Get
$4,000 Each.

purpose of more effectually promoting
and extending the religion Of Christian
Science as taught by me- Mrs. Mary
Baker G. Eddy in her will, fled here to-
day, makes the Mother Church in Bos-
ton her residuary legatee. after various
other bequests are paid.
Among these other beQuests is one of
100000 to the Christian Science board
Of directors, to be held in trust for the
purpose of providing free instruction for
INDECENT we'll educated, worthy Chris
tian Scientists at the Massachusetts
Metaphysical College, and to aid them
hereafter until they can maintain them
selves in some department Of Christian
Science"
Conservative estimates in advance of
the official appraisal of the Eddy estate
place its value at approximately 81, ,5O0,-
600.
In addition to the previous gifts made
to her son. George w Glover. of Lead,
s. D.. $4,000 is given him in the will.
and the same sum is given each oe his
children
DR.. f. J. Foster Eddy. her adopted
son, gets 5000; Calvin A. Frye. $40
600 and there are several more be-
quests of $1,000 to $4,000 each to rela-
tives and to attendants Of the Eddy
household.
BY codicils Mrs. Eddy directs that IN
Indebtedness on the edi1ce Of the Second
Church of Christ, Scientist, in New York
shall be cancelled from her estate and
beoueathes her crown of diamonds"
breastpin 20 Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, Of
New York.
Petition for Wills Approval.
The will was filed in the Probate Office
for Merrimack County at S.15 o'clock
this afternoon by Henry NJ Baker, of
Bow, the executor named in the docu
nent. who was accompanied by Frank
6. Streeter as counsel. Judge Charles r.
Corning received and allowed the will in
common form. Mr.. Baker Immediately
petitioned for its approval in solemn
form and a hearing thereon was ordered
to follow the mailing of notices, as re-
uuired by law The will filed this after
noon was that executed on September Is.
1901, and again executed as an original
q
having been lost or mislaid: There are
two codiciIs. the first dated November :.
1908, and the second May "A. 1904.
The witnesses of the two Wills We're
Mary E. Tomlnson. Irving g. Tomlinson,
Myron j. Pratt and Alvin B. Cross.
Messrs. Pratt and Cross and Calvin G..
Hill were the witnesses of the first codi-
Gil and Josiah H. Fernald, Mary L.
Thompson and Calvin c. Hill of the sec
ond codicil.
After appointing Henry NJ. Baker sole
executor without sureties. the will con-
tinues, in part, as follows:
Having already transferred and given
to my son, George w. Glover. of Lead
City, S. D., four certain mortgage deeds,
bought of the Farmers Loan and Trust
Company of the State of Kansas, AMI
having already given him a house and
lot located in Lead City, S. D., and
moneys at various times, 1 hereby con-
firm and ratify said transfers and gifts,
and in a -dition thereto l give and be-
queath to my said son, George w
Glover, the sum Of $4,000.
Bequests to Relatives
Il give and bequeath to George II.
Moore, of Concord, n H.. the sum of
| 81 900; TO each of the five children of
my son, George w. Glover. the sum of
| $4,000: to Henrietta f Chanfrau, of
Philadelphia, the sum of 81 600; to Fred
n Iadd. Of Concord. n. H., the sum of
So, 900, and TO my adopted son. +. j.
Foster Eddy NJ. D.. the sum of $1,000
II give and beoueath to the Mother
Church-First Church Of Christ, Scien-
tist Boston. Mass-the sum of $4,000.
II give and bequeath to the Christian
Science board of directors of the Mother
Church-the First Church of Christ.
Scientist, in Boston. Mass.-and their
successors in off1ce the sum of 100000,
but. nevertheless, in trust for the fol-
lowing purposes. namely: Said trustees
shall hold. invest and reinvest the prin-
cipal of said fund and conservativeiy
manage the same, and shall use the in
come and such portion of the principal,
from time to time, as they may deem
best, for the purpose OF providing free
instruction for INDECENT we'll educated.
worthy Christian Scientists at the
Massachusetts Metaphysical College. and
to aid them, therefore, until they can
maintain themselves in some part of
Christian Science.
Left to Judgment of Trustees.
II desire that the instruction for which
nroyision is hereby made shall be at the
said college, but my said trustees are
hereby authorized to provide said in
structfon elsewhere if. in the unanimous
Judgment OF all said trustees for The
| time being, such course shall seem best.
The Judgment and discretion OF said
| trustees with reference to the persons to
| h. aided as herein provided. and the
amount Of aid furnished 10 each of said
n.rsons shall be final and conclusive"
! The will then ratifies and confirms
| ,,ust agreements and declarations re-
| latipe TO the purchase Of land for the
| cite of the Mother Church in Boston
. nd specifying the conditions on which
| tb4 church shall hold its real estate
continuing. the will says:
II give bequeath and devise all the
rest. residue and remainder Of my es-
! ,.,e of every kind and description, (,
,,o Mother Church the First church o
christ Scientist in Boston-in trust fol
! ,he fnIlovine general purposes.