Word: benedicte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Augustus Cobb, a New York lawyer, graduated from the Law School in 1872, and when he died in 1930, he left his entire estate in trust for the benefit of his brother, Edward Benedict Cobb. The brother, as life tenant of the estate, had the benefit of it until his death, which occurred last Thanksgiving Day, and the Augustus Cobb estate was then divided into two parts, one going to six New York charities, and the other to Harvard...
...Cobb, and his brother Edward Benedict Cobb, who was also a New York attorney for a time, both inherited large sums from their father. Benedict Cobb was a graduate of Yale in 1872, and his will, made public last month, revealed a long infra-family rivalry, for Benedict Cobb left nearly $1,800,00 to the New Haven institution...
...national weekly magazine, reporting Benedict's bequest, referred to him as a "typical, obscure, sentimental old grad," and declared that he had become bored with the practice of law at 38 and retired soon afterwards. He lived on until his death at the age of 89, leading an essentially quiet life, dividing his time, according to the four seasons of the year, between Pittsfield. Boston, Washington, and an annual trip abroad, together with occasional journeys to see the Yale teams perform...
Tall, haughty and always immaculately dressed, wearing a white mustache and a wing collar, Benedict Cobb spent much of his time after his wife died in 1929 taking long daily walks with his nurse, Miss Miriam M. Caldwell, a vivacious Virginian. In a Pittsfield hotel last Thanksgiving Day, at 89, he died. In his will, announced last week, childless Benedict Cobb, last of his family, left $250,000 to his nurse, $450,000 to hospitals, a total of $1,340,000 in specific bequests. Yale got $400,000 of that and an estimated $1,400,000 in his residuary estate...
...visible wealth, immortalized in such forms as its Gothic buildings and great research projects, are huge U. S. fortunes (e. g. Harkness, Rockefeller). But the bulk of Yale's endowment, like that of many another U. S. college,* comes from the gifts of sentimental old grads like Edward Benedict Cobb...