Karen Heller: Despite huge bequest, Girard College in dire straits When Stephen Girard died in 1831, he was the richest man in America. He left his $7.5 million fortune for a boarding school to educate indigent boys. The bequest was the equivalent of almost $100 billion today.
June 12, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Auction of Elwin West property nets $312,000 for Spring Arbor Township Spring Arbor Township will realize a little more than $312,000 from the bequest and property left by Elwin F. West.That was the gist of a report Supervisor Marston Fortress gave to the township board Monday. West, who lived in a...
June 12, 2013 - The Jackson Citizen Patriot
Terry Hands in KTAR.com He was passionate about Shakespeare and attended many performances,Terry Hands told the AP in 1982 when he was joint artistic director of the company. "We are honored by his bequest."
Osama bin Laden in Firedoglake (blog) Allah commended to us that when death approaches any of us that we make a bequest to parents and next of kin and to Muslims as a whole,he wrote, according to a copy of the will that surfaced later and is regarded as authentic.
Nicholas Serota in Reuters UK Simon Sainsbury was one of the great arts patrons of his generation,Serota told reporters at Tate Britain, one of Tate's galleries in London. "The bequest was discussed with Simon in the mid-1990s ...... (and) Simon, through those...