Evening star., 1939-11-02
6. ". j. Inherifs
100000 Estate
OF Mrs. Dimock
Will Specifies Housing
Of Furnishings os
Memorial to Daughter

George Washington University
will benefit to the extent Of some
100000 If It's trustees will make
provision for displaying certain
property as a memorial to her
daughter, under the terms Of the
will of Mrs. Susan Whitney Dimock,
on file today in District Court. If
the trustees fail to avail themselves
Of the offer the gift is to go to the
trustees of the National Gallery of
Art being erected at Sixth street
and Constitution avenue NV.
Mrs. Dimock. who died September
IL, leaving her will dated December
20. 1887, gave the trustees of the
university one year after the pro-
batting Of her will and the COM
mencement of the administration of
her estate In which to furnish Dis
trict Court with an undertaking that
they will comply with her conditions
to receive the remainder Of her
estate.
Il desire to perpetuate the mem
ory Of my daughter Susan in
manner which shall be Of lasting
benefit tu the community and in
accordance with the wish Of George
Washington for the general diffusion
Of knowledge" Mrs. Dimock wrote in
her will. She provided that the uni
versity trustees should receive the
remainder of her estate "for general
educational purposes" with certain
provisions.
Conditions of Gift.
Under The will, the trustees must
agree to preserve and maintain in
any building known as the George
Washington Memorial, If and when
it may be erected and come under
control of the trustees-and until
then in one of the buildings of the
university-the tapestry furniture,
including the Marie Antoinette
chairs and rare china and porcelains,
regularly in the parlor, and the four
tapestries, regularly hanging on the
walls of the dining room and hall of
Mrs. Dimock's Washington home.
These pieces are to be dedicated,
under the terms Of the will, to the
memory Of Susan, the daughter of
Henry Farnum and Susan Whitney
Dimock" and appropriately so
marked.
But, If the University trustees are
not able to accept the gift or do not
satisfy the conditions, the will pro-
vides that the remainder of her
estate goes to the trustees of the
National Gallery of Art, Ito be
erected on the George Washington
Memorial site In the District Of
Columbia" This gallery, now under
construction, is the gift of the late
Andrew w. Mellon.
$115,s25 Realty Holdings Here.
The petition for the probate of
Mrs. Dimock's will, filed in Dis
trict Court yesterday by Attorney
Henry F. Butler, disclosed that her
real estate holdings here were as
sessed at $115,925; that she left her
residence, Elsinore, at Bar Harbor,
Me-, but the value of this was not
stated, and that her personal prop
erty aggregated $81,l73. Debts of
the estate will total some $500, the
court was told.
Named as executors were Charles
Henry Butler, an old friend, and DR..
Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of
George Washington University. She
left a number Of kinfolk, including
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney of
Long Island, N. Y, her great-nephew,
and relatives in England.
Mrs. Dimock left q pearl necklace
to her niece, Mrs. Herbert Lyman
Of Milton, Mass, who also gets all
her personal wearing apparel jew
elry. The will leaves $1,000 to Mrs.
Dimock's cook, Lizzie Brown; an
equal sum to the husband, Frank
Brown, and 81 900 each to her gar
dener at Elsinore, Charles Anderson,
aud tn her c11auffeilr- l.. r Miller