"THE CITY I LOVE."
WEALTHY WOMAN'S BEQUEST. > "To the city and county of San Francisco, with the wish that the supervisors •will expend that sum to add to the beauty of said city, which I have always loved." These are the words with which Lillie Hitchcock Coit, one-time San Francisco belle, left approximately 200,000 dollars, according to the terms her will made rpublic on August 6. Her estate was valued at 700,000 dollars, one-third or •which was left to the University of California to maintain a chair established there by her father, Dr. Chas. Hitchcock Mrs. C'oit left 5000 dollars to each of the surviving members of the volunteer lire company, of which she was made an honorary member back in th» '50s.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19290923.2.85
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
123"THE CITY I LOVE." Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Auckland Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries.
Log in