Word: wolcott
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...elections certified to the election of the following named persons for the term of six years: T. Jefferson Collidge, George O. Shattuck, Charles R. Codman; Charles J. Bonaparte, Charles F. Folsom; and that of Moses Williams for a term of two years to supply the place of Henry P. Wolcott, resigned...
Best general references: Stanwood, History of Presidential elections; Tribune Almanac, 1891; Speeches of Roger Wolcott and Secretary Tracy, Boston Herald, April 9, 1891; Public Opinion, Oct. 11, Dec. 6, 1890, Jan 3, Jan. 10, Feb. 28, 1891; Landon's Constitutional Hist...
Among other bequests, the will of J. Huntington Wolcott leaves Harvard $25,000, Mass. Institute of Technology $5,000, and the Lawrence Scientific School...
According to yesterday's edition of the Boston Advertiser a new bequest has been made to Harvard. Mr. J. Huntington Wolcott, who died ten days ago, left twenty-five thousand dollars to the college, of which the income is to be applied to establish scholarships for worthy students; twenty-five hundred dollars to the Lawrence Scientific School, and twenty-five hundred to the Botanical Gardens...
...addition to the former beneficiary aids, the Holmes scholarships, one in each class in college, are set forth. These are filled by students from Waterbury, Wolcott, Prospect and Middlebury, Ct., who receive each the income of one thousand dollars a year. To the list of scholarships is added the fund of forty thousand dollars, from the estate of Thomas G. Waterman, Yale '86. The income is given by the faculty to not more than three scholars from the Junior or Senior Class, or from graduates of the department of not more than two years' standing, who give promise of achieving...