Twenty-seven local charitable institutions will receive approximately $300,000 from the combined trust estates of the husband and son of Mrs. Louis H. Weinberger, who died last Friday at eighty. Louis H. Weinberger, the husband, died October 8, 1931, and Harry L. Weinberger, the son, died June 11, 1929.
The money is bequeathed to hospitals, homes, welfare and educational institutions and provisions for its distribution include establishment of a number of scholarships and endowments of free beds and rooms for the poor and needy.
The Federation of Jewish Charities receives bequests totaling $100,000 and is the largest single beneficiary, while the Jewish Hospital, with $60,000, is next.
Scholarship funds of $10,000 each are created at the National Farm School, near Doylestown, and at the Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans, this city. Temple University is given $4,000 to endow a scholarship.
The following institutions are to receive $10,000 each for endowment of a free bed.
Eagleville Sanitarium for Consumptives, Jewish Seaside Home for Invalids, Temple University (to be divided between Samaritan Hospital and Garretson-Greatheart Hospital) Jewish Hospital Association for use of the Lucien Moss Home for Incurables of the Jewish Faith, Lankenau Hospital, Jefferson Medical College Hospital, University Hospital, Jewish Hospital and Mt. Sinai Hospital.
Other charitable bequests are $2,000 each to the following:
Hebrew Sheltering Home, Jewish Welfare Society, Women’s Homeopathic Hospital, Northern Liberties Hospital, Children’s Hospital, Presbyterian Hospital, Big Brothers Association Boy Centre, Willow Crest for Convalescents, Neighborhood Centre, Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Salvation Army, Northwestern General Hospital and the Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans.
The bequests are memorials to the son, Mr. and Mrs. Weinberger, Mr. Weinberger’s sister, Hanah Weinberger, and his parents, Samuel and Julia Weinberger.
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