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so7SBQl*yatiS-8003ilOU-IIicttoall~.e-MCOca.onat:ot.cl;00.llyay? arorthoap-VaMar Charities.Tho will of tho late John Gay Vassar, tho nephew of tho founder of Vassar college at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., hasho expressed it, “to do tho most good and to forward the cause of humanity.** Thi3 distributes his largo fortune among various churches and institutions, tho Vassar Brothers’ hospital, tho Vassar Brothers’ Homo for Aged Men and Vassar college coming in for tho principal share.Mathew Vassar was bora in Norfolk,England, in 1703, and came to tho Unitedits in i dng wlargeisinesa. In 1861 ho put $408,000 in thoiguu . . ____States with his parents in 1706. His father engaged in brewing and the son subsequently amassed a large fortune in thohands of trustees for tho founding of Vassar collego. He died in 1868, leaving $50,000 moro for a Iccturo fund, and $50,000 for a fund for aiding poor stu dents of great promise.The nephew, John Guy Vassar, who lias died recently, after making a number of bequests to various churches and benevoKXiMATCKW VASSAR. JOIIX GUY VASSAR.lent institutions, gives Vassar Brothers’ hospital $200,000; the Vassar Brothers’ Homo for Aged Men, $25,000, and other roperty; tho Vassar Brothers’ institute. COO. To Vassar collego ho gives 8130.000. Besides these bequests lie left $100,000 for an institution to bo called tho “John Guy Vaesar orphan asylum.” Tho bequests of the two Vassars will servo to transmit the uamc in connection with education and charity to generations far in tho future.
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Athens Weekly Banner Watchman
Athens, Georgia, US
Tue, Nov 27, 1888
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