Educational Bequests

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 33.

Educational Bequests.

JOHNS HOPKINS gave $3,148,000 to the university which bears his name; Judge Packer, $3,000,000 in all to Lehigh University; Cornelius Vanderbilt, $1,000,000 to the Vanderbilt University; Stephen Girard, $8,000,000 to Girard College; John C. Green, and his residuary legatees, $1,500,000 to Princeton; Ezra Cornell, $1,000,000 to Cornell University; Isaac Rich, $700,000 to Boston University; Amasa Stone, $600,000 to Adelbert College; W. W. Corcoran, $170,000 to Columbian University; Benjamin Bussy, $500,000 to Harvard; Samuel Williston, William J. Walker, and Samuel A. Hitchcock, between $100,000 and $200,000 each to Amherst; Whitmer Phœnix, about $640,000 to Columbia; J. B. Trevnor, $179,000 to Rochester Theological Seminary; Matthew Vassar, $800,000 to Vassar College; Gardner Colby, $170,000 to Colby University and $100,000 to Newton Theological Seminary; J. B. Colgate, $300,000 to Madison University; George I. Seney, $450,000 to Wesleyan University, and the Crozer family have given $300,000 to Crozer Theological Seminary.—Sel.