New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-22
Widow and Two Children
Principal Bene6ciaries;
Institutions, $50, 900
Trust Fund for a Son
Mrs. Choate to Receive $780,.
600 Outright and $4,000
a Year for Life

The will of Joseph II. Choate, execut-
cd on April 3. little more than a
month before his death. was filed yes
terday 1t disposes of an estate valued
approximately at S3,OOO,OOO.
Mrs. Caroline S. Choate, widow; Jo-
seph II. Choate, jr.. son, and Miss
Mabel Choate, daughter, are the princi-
pal benefciaries. Public institutions
receive 100000 Other relatives,
friends and servants are remembered.
Specific requests amount to about
100000, and the trust funds estab-
lished to about $1,75O,OOO. The resi-
due of the estate includes the resi-
dence, at s East Sixty-third Street, and
its contents, and the estate at Stock
bridge, Mass.
George Choate. another son of the
testator, receives only the life income
from trust fund of S250,000, which at
per cent will yield s12,5OO year.
Miss Choate and Joseph IL. Choate, ir.,
each receive one-half of the residuary
estate, while the latter receives also
100000. His wife, Mrs. Cora Oliver
Choate, daughter of General Robert
Shaw Oliver, formerly Assistant Secre-
tGry of War, receives 100000. Their
four children will each receive $50, 900
when of age. tho trusts for them in the
meantime accommodating for their BEN
eft.
Trust Created for Widow
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outright and created a trust from
which Mrs. Chcate is to receive $4,000
year for life. The principal of this
trust. yielding per cent, will amount
10 81 100000, and at the death of Mrs.
Choate will become a part of the resi-
due going to Miss Choste and Joseph
II. Choate, jr. Mrs. Choate also is TO
have the use of the residence, s East
Sixty-third Street, with all its contents
and of the country estate, Naumkeag,
at Stockbridge
The six institutions in which Mr..
Choatc had been interested, he left
$4,000 each. OF two of these, the
State Charities Aid Association and the
New York Association for the Blind,
he was the president. In the bequest
TO the latter Mr.. Choate said: ain rec
ignition of my high appreciation of
the energy and devotion OF Miss Wini-
fred Holt in building it up"
The other institutions benefiting are
the Legal Aid Society, Women's Prison
Association and Home, "in apprecia-
ton of excellent work accomplished
there by Mrs. Abby Hopper Gibbons
and her daughters; ST. Paul's Church,
Stockbridge, Mass, toward parish
house. and the Stockbridge Library.
Requests TO Friends and Employees
Mr.. Choate left $4,000 too Mrs.
Louisa w. Scudder, widow of DR..
Charles D. Scudder and daughter of the
late Senator William NJ. Evarts, his
law partner. ain recognition OF my
long and affectionate relations with
her father"
William r. Montgomery, associated
with Mr.. Choate in his office, receives
$4,000, "in recognition of his constant
kindness TO me during the last thirty
years"
For faithful service to the family of
the testator, Ellen Peterson and John
+. Osborn receive $4,000 each. To each
of his other servants and his chauffeur
Mr. Choate left $3.50,
Mr.. 'Choate left $4,000 to each of
three nieces, the daughters of de-
ceased brother, George c. S. Choate.
George B. de Gersdorff. nephew, re-
ceived so, 900, and Mrs. Isabel Lawrence
de Gersdorff. his wife, $4,000. Two
godsons. Arthur Osgood Choate, jr., and
John Bigelow Clark, receive $1,000
each.
Mr.. Choate named his son. Joseph H..
Choate, jr.. Miss Mabel Choate, hIs
daughter, and Carl A. de Gersdorii,
nenbew- as executors of his estate.