New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-30
TWO HOSPITALS
Mitchell Valentines will Gives
$2,403,652 to Charity.
POUNDS MEMORIAL FUNDS
Dr. Atterbury's Estate Goes to
acknowledgements to st.
FRANCIS Xavier College.

The appraisal Of the ost,,o % Mitchell
Valentine, filed In the srrro,,o,o,. once
Yesterday. showed that vvl,h a. o,.o.,.,,o,,
Of a few thousand dollars. left - ro,a,t,.os
practically the entire estate vii, GO 90
charity, the total amount for this n,rnoso
being s2,4OS,652. The estate was appraised
at $2559,51l A nephew OF the testator will
receive 5000, and two nieces will receive
similar amounts besides annuites of 81 900
each. The largest benefciaries OF the lib
crafty Of Mr. Valentine were the Presby-
terrain Hospital and the Hahnemann Hos
pital. Under the terms OF Mr.. Valentines
will each Of these institutions will receive
a percentage Of the estate. amounting in
each instance to S,1i6S26. There was an
other bequest Of 10000 for the Peabody
Home for Aged and INDECENT Women and
one OF $4,000 for ST. Peters Episcopal
Church. Of West Chester to be used in the
care Of the sick and the poor OF the parish.
Mr.. Valentine also provided IN his will
that at his death mortgage he held on
the property Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church Of West Chester he cancelled.
The requests TO the Presbyterian Hos
ptal and the Hahnemann Hospital and
the Peabody Home were in the form OF
trust funds, the income to be used in the
general conduct of the institutions. Each
is 10 be a memorial for a brother Of the
testator. The Presbyterian Hospital gift
is to he known as THE Isaac +. Valentine
Memorial Fund: that to Hahnemann Hos
ptal as THE Stephen Valentine Memorial
Fund" and the Peabody Home bequest
is to be known as "rhe Alexander Valen-
tine Memorial Fund"
Mitchell Valentine who died September
3. 1909. was the last Of his line Of tho
family whose fortune was established in
West Chester village IN 1775 by Samuel
Valentine. Mitchell was the youngest Of
four sons. One Of the sons, stephen, com
mitted suicide in 1852, and another, Alex
ander. was a miser. He died In 1892 in
squalid rooms over a saloon. leaving
81 10000 TO Mitchell. who had led a Sc
Guided life on his Westchester estate. lie
dealt in mortgages
About $4,000 will be divided among sew
eral organizations Of the Presbyterian
Church by the will Of the Rev. William
Wallace Atterbury. which was fled yester-
day. DR. Atterbury died on August O. He
left an estate valued AZ $4,000. To twenty 70
eight nephews and nieces and grand
nephews and grandnieces he left 800 each.
with the exception of one, who receives
500 He left 500 10 the New York sabbath
Committee. all Of the residue going to
institutions Of the Presbyterian Church.
St. Francis Xavler's College viii receive
$4,000 by the terms Of two wills hled III
the surrogates' office yesterday.
The Rev. Henry Van Rensselaer,, who at
the time of his death, October 3. 1901 was
member of the college faculty lett MS
entire estate to the college
Mrs. Mary Freeman, who died on August
Q. gave her entire estate, valued at $5"''
IN the college for the foundation OF a
scholarship 10 he known as the Mary
Freeman Scholarship for young men who
intend to study for the priesthood
Arerider. Conn. Aug. 29-Public requests
IN Meriden and Middletown 10 the amount
of 1856 5oN we're contained in the viii ot
Walter Hubbard. a wealthy MANUFACTURED
and philanthroplst fled for probate late
to-day. Fifty thousand dollars was left
in trust for tho worthy poor Of this city
So. ono for the poor I'm Middletown and Sio'-
od0 in trust for Wesleyan University.