The bulk of the $500,000 estate of Henry G. Foreman, once president of the Cook County board, is left in trust for charity after the death of his widow, it was revealed when his will was filed with Oscar S. Caplan, assistant to Probate Judge Henry Horner. Mr. Foreman died on July 25 at the ago of 75.
The will provides that the estate shall remain as a life trust for the widow, Mrs. Lottie S. Foreman, with a specific bequest of $3,000 to Philip H. Grady, a friend. On Mrs. Foreman’s death, eight-ninths of the income from the estate is bequeathed to charities. The other one-ninth is divided among seven nephews and ten nieces.
The charitable bequests are divided into two large groups. The first, to be known as the Gerhard and Hannah Foreman Trust Fund, in memory of Mr. Foreman’s parents, is subdivided into four equal incomes for the Michael Reese Hospital, the Chicago Home for Jewish Orphans, the Home for Aged Jews and the Chicago Winfield Sanitarium. In the other group, to be known as the Henry G. and Lottie S. Foreman Trust estate, equal incomes are willed to other institutions.
The will reads in part: “In making this will, I have in mind the thought of protecting and caring for the sick, the old and the orphan.”
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