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Left, By Mortimer Leo Schiff, Manhattan banker and philanthropist who died last fortnight (TIME, June 15); an estate estimated at $100,000,000. Of this $1,000,000 goes to his son John Mortimer Schiff, $750,000 to his daughter Mrs. Dorothy Schiff Hall, $250,000 to her husband Richard Brown West Hall (to revert to the residuary estate should the Halls die childless). To philanthropic and educational institutions goes $1.001,000, of which $500,000 is for the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, $100,000 for the Boy Scouts of America (of which Banker Schiff was elected president three weeks before he died), $50,000 to his alma mater, Amherst College. To his family retainers and to every employe of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. go gifts ranging from $100 to $20,000. City and country houses and three-fifths of the residuary estate are left, in trust, to Mrs. Adele Gertrude Schiff, the remaining two-fifths in trust to the two children. Upon the death of Mrs. Schiff two-thirds of her share goes to John Mortimer Schiff provided he has not married without her permission. One-third goes to Mrs. Dorothy Schiff Hall. Died—William Edwin Rudge, 54, famed printer; in Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
Died, William Thurston Hincks, 61, founder (with his brother Robert Stanley) of Hincks Brothers & Co., investment bankers; after three months' illness; in Bridgeport.
Died, George D. McLaughlin, 67, Chicago clubman, merchant (Manor House coffee), brother of Sportsman Frederic McLaughlin; as the result of an automobile accident near Lake Forest, Ill.
Died, Dr. Franklin Henry Giddings, 76, pioneer U. S. sociologist, professor emeritus of sociology at Columbia University; after a long illness; in Scarsdale, N. Y. An oldtime editorial writer for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, he succeeded Woodrow Wilson as economics professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1888, went to Columbia in 1894, first U. S. sociology professor to hold a chair so designated. To a science still largely abstract he brought a new, exact method, involving for the first time statistical studies. His authoritative Principles of Sociology was ten years a-writing.
Died. Anna Adams Gordon, 78, nine years world president of the W. C. T. U.; in a sanitorium at Castle, N. Y.; of a general breakdown. She served the Dry cause for 54 years, was 21 years secretary to Founder Frances Willard of the W. C. T. U.
Died. Jesse Boot, Baron Trent of Nottingham, 81, founder of the $25,000,000 drug store chain, Boot's Cash Chemists, which with 770 shops in England controls Boot's Pure Drug Co. and four subsidiary companies; of paralysis; in St. Helier, island of Jersey.