More than $4,000,000 was left to the Schwarzhaupt Foundation to promote American citizenship in the will of Emil Schwarzhaupt which was filed for probate here yesterday, Mr. Schwarzhaupt, a businessman who came to this country in 1910 from Germany, left numerous bequests to Jewish organizations and charitable, educational and religious institutions, including the following:
The sum of $250,000 to the University of Florida; $100,000 – American Museum of Natural History; $50,000 each – Catholic Charities of Archdiocese of New York, Greater New York Federation of Churches, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, Michael Reese Hospital of Chicago, National Conference of Christians and Jews; $25,000 each – Hospital for Joint Diseases, Boy Scouts of America, Art Institute of Chicago, Jewish Federation of Chicago, Juvenile Service League, New York League for Hard of Hearing, New York Zoological Society; $20,000 – Congregation Emanu-El of New York; $10,000 each – American Jewish Committee, American National Red Cross, Hebrew University in Palestine, International Committee of Young Men’s Christian Association and Jewish Community Centers of Chicago.
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