Famous Givers and Their GiftsBolton, Sarah Knowles
History
Famous Givers and Their Gifts
Bolton, Sarah Knowles
Philanthropists
Afterwards he returned to his trade at Bridgeport, where he remained
till 1854, when he was thirty-three years old. He then removed to New
York City, and entered the employ of Hoyt Brothers, dealers in leather.
Years later, on the withdrawal of Mr. Hoyt, the firm name became
Fayerweather & Ladew. Mr. Fayerweather was a retiring, economical man,
honest and respected. At his death in 1890, he gave to the Presbyterian
Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital, and Manhattan Eye and Ear Infirmary,
$25,000 each; to the Woman's Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital, $10,000
each; to Yale College, Columbia College, Cornell University, $200,000
each; to Bowdoin College, Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth, Wesleyan,
Hamilton, Maryville, Yale Scientific School, University of Virginia,
Rochester, Lincoln, and Hampton Universities, $100,000 each; to Union
Theological Seminary, Lafayette, Marietta, Adelbert, Wabash, and Park
Colleges, $50,000 each. The residue of the estate, over $3,000,000, was
divided among various colleges and hospitals.
GEORGE I. SENEY,
Who died April 7, 1893, in New York City, gave away, between 1879 and
1884, to Seney Hospital in Brooklyn, $500,000, and a like amount each to
the Wesleyan University, and to the Methodist Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn.
To Emory College and Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Ga., he gave
$250,000; to the Long Island Historical Society, $100,000; to the
Brooklyn Library, $60,000; to Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N.J.,
a large amount; to the Industrial School for Homeless Children,
Brooklyn, $25,000, and a like amount to the Eye and Ear Infirmary of
that city. He also gave twenty valuable paintings to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York.
The givers to colleges have been too numerous to mention. The College of
New Jersey, at Princeton, has received not less than one and a half
million or two million dollars from the John C. Greene estate.
Johns Hopkins left seven millions to found a university and hospital in
Baltimore.
The Hon. Washington C. De Pauw left at his death forty per cent of his
estate, estimated at from two to five million dollars, to De Pauw
University, Greencastle, Ind. Though some of the real estate decreased
in value, the university has received already $300,000, and will
probably receive not less than $600,000, or possibly much more, in the
future.
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