The New York herald., 1921-04-13
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IN CONVERSE WILL
Financier Bequeaths Tenth
OF Estate to Charity and
Education.
TEN COLLEGES BENEFIT
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TEN COLLEGES BENEFIT
Get $4,000 Each to Estab-
lish Scholarships in
Bankers Name.
EMPLOYEES REMEMBERED
Rare Specimens From His Art
Collection Go to Metrop0li-
tan Museum.

Edmund c. Converse, financier, who
died April at Pasadena, CAL, leaving
an estate estimated at $20,000,000, be-
queathed about 100000 to charities
and for educational purposes, accord
ing to his WILL which was filed yester-
day at Greenwich, Conn. Trust funds
of $4,000 each for ten colleges were
set aside for the establishment of e.
G. Converse scholarships. Some of the
rare specimens from the bankers art
collection were given to the Metropoli-
tan Museum.
The will makes provision for all of
Mr.. Converse's employees He was first
president of the Bankers Trust Com
pany. resigning that post in 1913. Be-
fore that he was president of the Liberty
National Bank. He made bequests to
employees organizations In both banks.
The balance of the estate is left in
trust for the widow. Mrs. Edith Dunshee
Converse; the children. Baroness An
toinette Won Romberg, Mrs. Benjamin
Strong, Jr., of Greenwich, and Edmund
c. Converse. Jr., of California: and to
grandchildren.
Among the public bequests were the
following: q
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van
Dycll's portrait of Mile Cottigniers and
collection of Chinese, Persian. Japanese
and Italian ceramics. .mortuary glass.
jades and other hard stones.
Harvard University. Gainsborough's
portrait of Count Rumford.
Rumford Historical Society, Woburf.
Mass. $4,000.
Christ's Church of Greenwich. Conn.,.
100000 as an endowment fund.
Congregational Church. East STAN
vich, Conn, $4,000.
Boy Scouts OF America, $4,000. OF
which $4,000 Is to be applied for the
benefit of Greenwich Local Council OF
Boy Scouts.
Greenwich Country Club. $4,000 for
the purchase of prizes for the annual
Fourth OF July sports.
Bankers Club of New York. composed
OF employees OF the Bankers Trust
Company. $4,000.
Bankers Trust Company pension fund
for employees, 100000.
Alaquippa Lodge. L. and A. NJ. Of
McKeesport. Pa. $4,000.
Young Mems Christian Association,
Greenwich, Conn, 100000 for endow-
ment fund.
New York Dispensary, $3.50
New York Geological Society Of the
City of New York. $4,000.
St. Thomas's Episcopal 'ihurch or
New York city. for its charitable pur-
poses. $4,000.
Amherst College. 100000 for the up
Keep and development OF the Converse
Memorial Library.
Greenwich General Hospital, S1O0.O0O.
Liberty Club. composed of employees
of the Liberty National Bank, $4,000.
Tancred Commendery. X. T., f. and
A. NJ. Society OF Pittsburgh, Pa, the
sum Of $4,000.
Charitable Society of Englewood'
$4,000.
United Hospital Fund OF New York.
5000
TO each of the following colleges $5o,-
600 to establish the +. Z. Converse
scholarship funds: Amherst. Bowdoin,
Dartmouth. Stamford. Oberlin. Smith.
Trinity. TuslSegee Normal and Indus
rial Institute. Wells and Williams.
New York Association for Improving
Tie Condition of the Poor. s100,00o..
Metropolitan Hospital Of the City OF
New York. for its social service depart
rnent, $4,000.
Alfred Jaretzki OF New York city and
Bankers Trust Company are appointed
executors and trustees.