Word: wolcott
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Owing to the widespread desire to express in some appropriate manner the public appreciation of Roger Wolcott and to perpetuate his memory, a movement has been started to raise a fund by public subscription for the erection of a statue or some other memorial. This memorial would be placed at or in the State House, or in some other public place in Boston...
...Wolcott, Boston...
...will of ex-Governor Roger Wolcott '70, which was filed last week at the Suffolk Probate Court, Harvard College is to receive the sum of $20,000. There also are several other public bequests as follows: Massachusetts General Hospital, $5000; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, $5000; Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, $1000; Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, $1000; trustees of the Wolcott Library of Litchfield, Conn., $1000; trustees of the Public Library of Milton...
...will which is dated March 3, 1900, appoints Francis C. Welch, Philip Dexter '89 and Roger Wolcott '99 as executors...
Whether men agreed with him or not in his social or political estimates, no man ever suggested that Roger Wolcott fell below his own lofty ideas--and they were the ideals of a man of honor and Christian faith. Conscious that much had been given to him, more than is generally bestowed upon man, he was determined to render a good account of his talents...