I, JULIA LORILLARD BUTTERFIELD, of the Village of Cold Spring, Putnam
County, New York, do hereby make, public and declare this to be my last
Will and Testament as follows:
ELEVENTH: I direct my executors to purchase a tract of land of such
area as may seem to them sutiable at some spot accessible to the
inhabitants of the Villages of Cold Spring and Nelsonville,
Putnam
County, New York, within a reasonable time, and cause to be constructed
thereon a hospital building the said land and building to cost not
exceeding the sum of Forty thousand Dollars ($40,000). I direct the
said executors after conference with the physicains of the said
Villages to furnish said hospital building and equip the same with
modern apparatus suitable to the same, and which in the judgement of my
said Executors may seem proper. I desire that the judgement of my
said Executors shall control as to the size of said building and the
style of architecture of the same. I direct that said hospital
building shall be known as the "Julia L. Butterfield Hospital Building"
and the words "In Memoriam, Julia L. Butterfield" placed on a stone
over the main entrance to said building. For the purpose of furnishing
and equipping the said hospital I direct my said Executors to spend not
exceeding the sum of Ten thousand Dollars ($10,000).
Upon the completion of said hospital building I direct my Executors to
convey the said real estate and building and all said furnishings and
apparatus to the seven following named persons as Trustees, Augustus
Healey, Frank Healey, David W. Hariness, Doctor Richard Giles, Doctor
J. M. Winslow, Doctor C. Clark, and Albert Francis Hagar,
in trust for
the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the said Villages
and such
other persons as the said Trustees may designate. I direct said
Trustees and their successors to enact such rules and regulations as
may be proper for the conduct of said hospital.
I give, devise and bequeath to the following named persons, as
Trustees, Augustus Healey, Frank Healey, David W. Harness, Doctor
Richard Giles, Doctor J. M. Winslow, Doctor C. Clark and Albert Francis
Hagar, the sum of One hundred thousand Dollars ($100,000) to invest
the same and keep the same invested to use the incom thereof for
maintaining and carrying on such hospital. In case of their inability
to serve as such trustees, then I direct that such
person or persons be
immediately substituted as may be selected and appointed by the Supreme
Court of New York.
Link to RESOLUTION by Village of Cold Spring Trustees
regarding this WILL