LEFT TWELVE MILLIONS.
r . ■, — r~* V 0 '• A NEW YORK BANKER. " FIVE MILLIONS TOR- PHILANTHROPY. IBy Tolcgraph.-l'refls A»s<iclMlon.-CoMfishu (Rec. November 7, 5.5 p.m.) , ; • New York, November 6. John Stewart Kennedy, ' a i Scotch-Amorican retired banker, who emigrated from Scotland' to New .York when twenty years of age, re--3 cently died in New York, of whooping cough, • in his eightieth'year. ;. f He left five million sterling, to religious, cational,' and 'charitable institutions,. chiefly 1 Presbyterian., He also bequeathed .seven mil--9 lions to his widow, relatives, friends, and.emt ployies. The University of Glasgow receives , >620,000.' ; • k [Born in Scotland, on January i, 1830, and eduoated at Glasgow, Mr. John-Stowart Kent nedy arrived in New York in June, 1850, and i —except for a residence in Scotland from 1852 to 1856—has since resided in the United States. ' Ho was married in New Jcrsoy in 1858. He was in business as n banker: from 1857 till 1885, ■ nnd has been president or a director of many I financial institutions and railway/companies. I Mr. Kennedy was prominentlyi connected, with , philanthropic—especially Presbyterians-institu-tions, with public libraries, and with charities like the Sooiety for the Ruptured and Crip- ' Pled.] ,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 658, 8 November 1909, Page 7
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