Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

the books in my homes, all periodicals, all things suitable for a library, I desire the Trustees to place, as soon as possible, in the new Library Building connected with the University. The ivory, painted breastpin, surrounded with small brilliants, picture of my son, and one of the same of my mother, and another with large diamonds surrounding it of my husband, I desire shall be placed and carefully pr eserved in one of the cases in the memorial room of my husband in Stanford Museum Building.

XXIV.

I nominate and appoint my friend RUSSELL J. WILSON, of San Francisco, California, and my brother CHARLES GARDNER LATHROP, and my friends TIMOTHY HOPKINS of Menlo Park, and JOSEPH D. GRANT of San Francisco, California, to be the Executors of this my Will. No bonds shall be required of them, either upon qualification as Executors, or for the performance of any of the trusts of this Will, either as Executors or otherwise.

XXV.

It is my solemn wish and desire that my dear brother CHARLES G. LATHROP, who has been unsurpassed in his devotion and loyalty to me through my trials and sorrows during the past eight years, and devoted to all the interests left me by my dear husband, should be retained in the Board of Directors of the Pacific Improvement Company as long as my Estate retains any interest therein. I hereby request that the Board of Trustees of the University shall retain my brother CHARLES G. LATHROP as Treasurer of and Business Manager for the Board of Trustees, he to receive annually the salary of Ten Thousand ($10,000) Dollars each year, and I trust for my sake my dear brother will be willing to retain

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IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN: I, JANE LATHROP STANFORD, of the County of Santa Clara, State of California, widow of Leland Stanford, deceased, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, and mindful of the uncertainty of life, do make, publish and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament, in manner following, that is to say:

I. I give and bequeath to the UNION TRUST COMPANY OF SAN FRANCISCO, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California, the sum of Two Million ($2,000,000) Dollars, to have and to hold the same in trust for the following uses and purposes, that is to say:

a. I authorize, empower and direct said Trustee to invest said sum of Two Million ($2,000,000.) Dollars in first class bonds, or other securities, as it may deem best, and to pay over, at regular intervals the net income arising from one million dollars thereof to my brother ARIEL LATHROP of Albany, New York, for and during the term of his natural life, and upon his death, (as he has no children or descendants), this trust shall cease and determine as to onehalf of said trust property, that is to say, as to one million dollars thereof, and the said sum or the property in which it may be invested shall belong to and be delivered to his relatives, as follows, viz: one-half thereof to his brother CHARLES GARDNER LATHROP, and the other one-half thereof to the descendants of his deceased brother Daniel Shields Lathrop in the proportions of one-third to his daughter JENNIE L. LAWTON, one-third to his daughter AMY GARDNER HANSEN, and the remaining one-third in equal shares to DANIEL S. GUNNING AND AMY L. GUNNING, the children of Christine L. Gunning, the deceased daughter of Daniel Shields

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accompany him in attendance on the funeral services of the late Mrs. Stanford; and

Resolved, That these resolutions be incorporated in the minutes of the Faculty and that a copy be sent to the late Mrs. Stanford's brother, Mr. Charles Gaylord Lathrop, and that a copy be forwarded to President David Starr Jordan of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

In behalf of the Faculty,

J. Culver Hartzell

F. G. Franklin

Lulu M. Mayne

Committee.

Adopted March 16, 1905.

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that this Resolution be spread on the minutes of the School, and that copies in Japanese and English be forwarded to Mr. Charles G. Lathrop, and to President David Starr Jordan for Leland Stanford Junior University.

Anglo Japanese Training School,

1329 Pine Street, San Francisco, Cal.

March 23rd, 1905.

Milton S. Vail, Principal

Sadakazu Kitamura, Secretary

WHEREAS, It has been the will of Providence in its infinite wisdom, to remove from our midst our beloved friend and benefactress, Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford; and

WHEREAS, Through her death we, the Japanese Students' Association of Stanford University, together with all the students and others connected with the University, and with her hosts of friends elsewhere, have suffered the loss of a friend whom we love, revere, and respect, and have had removed from us the example of her uplifting and ennobling life; be it

RESOLVED, That we, the members of the Japanese Students' Association of Stanford University, to whom she has shown many personal favors, do hereby express our deep and heartfelt sorrow at the bereavement that has come so suddenly to us, and extend to her relatives our truest sympathy in their even greater trial; and

RESOLVED, That this testimonial be spread upon the records of this association, and that a copy be forwarded to her brother, Mr. Chas. G. Lathrop.

Taira Nakamura, Pres.

Fumiya Nakayama, Sec.