Historical gazetteer and biographical memorial of Cattaraugus County, . ;j;ni; iroJ::niiiil^ mm iiim jjjj (1,1,11„„[ 2 e JM r TilkTi rk.(lW>>.T r^tfSftv^ r^^&-^TT. WESTERN NEW YORK HUME FOR HOMELESS AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN. Town of Randolph. ? 1033 M. Norton. To a building committee of this board $50,000 was paid by JudgeChamberlain and the erection of a building soon commenced. It was of brick,140x40 feet, three and four stories high, with an ell, 40x60 feet, three storieshigh. Judge Chamberlain died February 10, 1868. The building was notfinished until som
Historical gazetteer and biographical memorial of Cattaraugus County, . ;j;ni; iroJ::niiiil^ mm iiim jjjj (1,1,11„„[ 2 e JM r TilkTi rk.(lW>>.T r^tfSftv^ r^^&-^TT. WESTERN NEW YORK HUME FOR HOMELESS AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN. Town of Randolph. ? 1033 M. Norton. To a building committee of this board $50,000 was paid by JudgeChamberlain and the erection of a building soon commenced. It was of brick,140x40 feet, three and four stories high, with an ell, 40x60 feet, three storieshigh. Judge Chamberlain died February 10, 1868. The building was notfinished until some months afterward. By his will he left an endowment to theinstitution of $400,000, but the courts decided after long litigation that partsof the will were invalid. Only about $45,000 was received, and that in bondsand mortgages. On March 16, 1872, years after the name ChamberlainInstitute was adopted, the boarding hall, including the library, cabinet, furni-ture, etc., was burned, but was rebuilt within twelve months, the buildingcommittee being E. S. Ingersoll, Stephen Burlingame, William M. Brown,Frank Hovey, and J. H. Chaffee. The institution now has an aggregatewealth of $113,
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