 Desiring to render a public benefit to the city of New York, and to contribute to the advancement of useful knowledge and the general good of society, I do, by this codicil, appropriate four hundred thousand dollars out of my residuary estate to the establishment...  Valentine's Manual of the City of New York - Stran 921916Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Walter Gore Marshall - 1881 - 530 strani
...10 The following is an extract from the will of the late Mr. John Jacob Astor, of New York City : " Desiring to render a public benefit to the city of New York, and to contribute to the advancement of human knowledge and the general good of society, I do, by this codicil, appropriate §400,000 to the... | |
 | Thomas Greenwood - 1886 - 522 strani
...fortune had come. As this portion of the will is deserving of being recorded, we give it. He says : " Desiring to render a public benefit to the city of New York, and to contribute to the advancement of human knowledge and the general good of society, I do, by this codicil, appropriate £80,000 out of... | |
 | Thomas Greenwood - 1886 - 520 strani
...fortune had come. As this portion of the will is deserving of being recorded, we give it. He says : " Desiring to render a public benefit to the city of New York, and to contribute to the advancement of human knowledge and the general good of society, I do, by this codicil, appropriate £80,000 out of... | |
 | Richard Gause Boone - 1889 - 440 strani
...Francisco, California. John Jacob Astor, of New York, died March 29, 1848. One codicil to his will said : " Desiring to render a public benefit to the city of...useful knowledge and the general good of society, I do, by this codicil, appoint $400,000 out of my residuary estate to the establishment of a public... | |
 | Richard Gause Boone - 1889 - 444 strani
...Francisco, California. John Jacob Astor, of New York, died March 29, 1848. One codicil to his will said: "Desiring to render a public benefit to the city of...useful knowledge and the general good of society, I do, by this codicil, appoint $400,000 out of my residuary estate to the establishment of a public... | |
 | Richard Gause Boone - 1889 - 440 strani
...Francisco, California. John Jacob Astor, of New York, died March 29, 1848. One codicil to his will said : " Desiring to render a public benefit to the city of...useful knowledge and the general good of society, I do, by this codicil, appoint $400,000 out of my residuary estate to the establishment of a public... | |
 | New York Public Library - 1905 - 416 strani
...Will, bearing date the fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-six. Desiring to render a public benefit to the City of...of useful knowledge and the general good of society I do by this Codicil appropriate four hundred thousand dollars out of my residuary estate, to the establishment... | |
 | American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society - 1912 - 856 strani
...Astor's great fortune, although founded in the fur trade, was acquired not so much in that business, us through his unwavering and well-founded belief in...defraying the necessary expenses of the accommodation of persona consulting the library, and in supplying the same from time to time with books, maps and other... | |
 | Thomas Augst, Wayne A. Wiegand - 2001 - 216 strani
...state government. John Jacob Astor left $400,000 for a library because, as his will stated, he wished "to render a public benefit to the city of New York, and to contribute to the advancement of human knowledge and the general good of society. . . ."13 In the early-twentieth century Andrew Carnegie's... | |
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