Baltimorean Leaves $100,000 For Lee-Jackson Monument

Will Of J. Harry Ferguson Provides For Erection Within Ten Miles Of City Hall Following Death Of Sister

Erection of a monument to Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. (“Stonewall”‘) Jackson, “great, generals and Christian soldiers,” is provided for in the will of J. Harry. Ferguson, president of the Colonial Trust Company.

The will, probated yesterday in the Orphans’ Court, leaves $100,000 for the purpose, the sum to be turned over to the Municipal Art Society upon the death of Mrs. Ella F. Ward, the testator’s sister.

Mr. Ferguson specified that the monument he erected in Maryland, within ten miles of the City Hall and portray the parting of the Confederate leaders before the Battle of Chancellorsville.

“Boyish Heroes”

“They were my boyish heroes,” Mr. Ferguson, wrote, “and maturer judgment has only strengthened my admiration for, them. They were great generals and Christian soldiers. They waged war like gentlemen and I feel that their example should be held up to the youth of Maryland.”

Sister Gets House

Should the Municipal Art Society be unable to assume charge of the construction, the work is to be done by the Maryland Historical Society.

The site of the monument is to be selected by:

Charles Morris Howard…….. William L. Marbury
Charles McHenry Howard…. Dr. Hugh H. Young
Arthur W. Machen, Jr………….James McConkey Trippe
R.E. Lee Marshall………………… A. Sterett McKim
George A. Colston

Mr. Ferguson, left his interest in the property at 921 St. Paul street and his furniture and household and personal elects to Mrs. Ward. Aside From $3,400 in small bequests, the estate is to be placed in trust, three-fourths of the income to be paid to Mrs. Ward and one-fourth to Mrs. Caroline F. Roach, another sister, for life.

$20.000 To Children

Upon the death of both sisters, $20,000 will so to Mrs. Roach’s children and the reminder, exception the $100,-000, is bequeathed to the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Maryland for the Cathedral of the Incarnation Foundation and the Hospital for the Women of Maryland.

Letters on the estate were granted Mrs. Ward aud the Colonial Trust Company, executors without bond.