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Estate of Frederick Chester Hewitt Leaves $1.5 Million to Museum
New York reports Frederick Chester Hewitt of Owego New York, a retiring multi millionaire, left a $1.5 million outright gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with the estate likely totaling $6 to $8 million. Hewitt, Yale graduate at eighteen, built a noted ivory carving collection after years of cautious art buying. He kept his distance from public life and distrusted flattery, yet his generosity extended to art learning and philanthropy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frederick Chester Hewitt
Owego
N. Y
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The
Herald
Great Rogers Fund
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mr. Hewitt
Tioga County
Gordon Hewitt
Hewitt
George Sidney Camp
Gordon Hewitt, Jr
Thomas C. Platt
F. C. Hewitt
Yale
University At
New Haven
Gordon
Tioga
Jules Worms
Metropolitan Museum
Jacob Rogers
Rogers
Yale University
Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr
Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., Went To ‘Owego