Ernest Pick, a Gentile farmer and member of the second family of Shakers at New Lebanon, N.Y., left $8,000 to the Jewish National Fund, it was revealed here today. On Dec. 1, two days after Pick died, the J.N.F. headquarters in New York received a note from Pick written before his death advising that it was entitled to an $8,000 account he had set up for it at the Agricultural National Bank here.
Pick had heard much about the reclamation work being accomplished in Palestine and visited there five years ago. He was born in Austria in 1859 and came to this country when he was 23. For several years he was a farmer in this section until he joined the Shakers in New Lebanon. He stayed there 40 years until 1934, when he went to Europe to visit relatives in Czechoslovakia. Since his return he had made his home in this city.
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