Estate of } JOHN MCKEE, } Deceased. } HON. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, _Dear sir:_ Your favor has been received and in reply thereto I would state that the State Appraiser fixed the valuation in Estate of the late Colonel John McKee as follows: Gross valuation of Personal estate, $ 71,644.29 Gross valuation of real estate in Pennsylvania, 271,188.33 ----------- Making together, $342,832.62 =========== Net valuation of the above, $212,831.86 Of this $46,500. is in unimproved real estate from which, at this time, no income is derived. In addition to the above the Estate owns the following from which no income (or but a nominal income) is derived:--a lot in Gloucester County, New Jersey, valued at One hundred Dollars ($100),--a large area of land in Atlantic County, New Jersey, known as McKee City, assessed for taxation at twenty-thousand six hundred and fifty Dollars ($20,650) and a tract of coal and mineral lands in Kentucky, which Colonel McKee always considered would turn out to be valuable and would eventually realize a considerable sum. It is assessed for taxation for 1909 at Seventy thousand Dollars ($70,000)-- In brief the testamentary directions of Colonel McKee are to accumulate the rents and income of his estate until the decease of all his children and grand-children, meanwhile improving (under certain conditions) his unimproved real estate. Upon the death of all his children and grand-children, the estate is to be made use of in the establishment and maintenance of a college for the education of colored and white fatherless boys. Very truly yours, JOSEPH P. MCCULLEN February 23, 1909. MR. ROBERT E. PARK, Tuskegee Institute, Ala., _Dear Sir:_ Yours of the 13th inst., post marked the 16th inst., has been received. You state you would be glad to have any information I can give you about Mr. McKee, particularly in regard to the amount of the estate he left at the time of his death.