A List of Some of the Benevolent Institutions of the City of Philadelphia and Their Legal Titles: Together with a Form of Devise and Bequest to ThemAshmead, 1859 - 36 pages |
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21st and Hamilton A. B. and C. D. Act of Assembly aged women Alonzo Potter annual subscriptions Arch Street ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA Asylum Barclay BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS BIBLE SOCIETY Catharine Street charitable Institution Charles Chestnut Street CITY OF PHILADELPHIA Contributors DESTITUTE COLORED CHILDREN Directress DISPENSARY Edward Hopper employed Episcopalian females Friendless Children funds furnish George W give and bequeath GRANDOM INSTITUTION gratuitous Home for Friendless HOSPITAL Houton hundred Incorporated April Incorporated February Incorporated June Incorporated March James John John W LEGAL TITLES Logan Square Lombard Street LYING IN CHARITY Morris MOYAMENSING Northern Home object as preceding Parrish PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTION PERSONS DEPRIVED PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY President Race Street RELIEF AND EMPLOYMENT Relief of Persons ROSINE ASSOCIATION S. E. corner Samuel Secretary sexes Sharpless Situated between 20th SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA SOUP SOCIETY specimens Spring Garden Streets suitable SYLVANIA Thomas Earp Townsend trust TRUSTEES.-President Vaux Walnut Street William H
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Page 3 - No estate, real or personal, shall hereafter be bequeathed, devised or conveyed to any body politic, or to any person, in trust for religious or charitable uses...
Page 17 - Asylum for the Relief of Persons deprived of the Use of their Reason, Third Month, 1842.
Page 17 - ... and the survivor of them, and the executors and administrators of such survivor...
Page 28 - The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race," incorporated by Act of Assembly passed the 8th day of December, AD 1789, of which Dr.
Page 3 - ... no estate, real or personal, shall hereafter be bequeathed, devised, or conveyed to any body politic, or to any person, in trust for religious or charitable uses, except the same be done by deed or will, attested by two credible, and, at the time, disinterested witnesses, at least one calendar month before the decease of the testator or alienor ; and all dispositions of property contrary hereto shall be void, and go to the residuary legatee or devisee, next of kin or heirs, according to law:...
Page 17 - Philadelphia, known by the name of ' The Contributors to the Asylum for the relief of persons deprived of the use of their reason,' and to be paid by the said Trustees to the Treasurer for the time being of the said Institution.
Page 25 - to secure from vice and degradation a class of women who have forfeited their claims to the respect of the virtuous — to prepare and maintain for them an Asylum, which, by its system of religious instruction, shall elevate their moral nature — teach them how to gain an honest living by the ' work of their own hands,' and eventually to render them useful members of the community.
Page 29 - The object of this Association shall be the improvement of the spiritual, mental, and social condition of young men...
Page 22 - This collection covers the whole field of mineralogy ; and is perhaps, with one exception, the most valuable in the United States. 250,000 specimens of geologic and organic remains, of rare value to the student, illustrating, as they do, the various races which are known to have flourished in the earlier geological periods. 200,000 specimens of recent shells, for the purpose of comparison with their extinct genera, found in the various strata of the earth's crust. 25,000 specimens of dried plants,...
Page 18 - The purpose of this organization was the "relief of disabled firemen, their widows and orphans, and the relief of persons not firemen, who may sustain personal injury by fire apparatus.