News: Reuben YOUNG will, November 30, 1912, York County, PA

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WILL OF REUBEN YOUNG

Left Estate Valued At Over $80,000 – Bequests To Charity

The Hanover Public Library and Third Lutheran Church Receive $500 – Missionary 
Societies and Aged Ministers’ Fund Bequeathed $5,000 Each.


The will of Reuben Young was probated at York on Tuesday.  It was dated Oct. 25, 
1911.  The subscribing witnesses were Julius W. Fischer and Herbert R. Lemmon.  
His widow, Augusta L. Young, is named as the executrix.  The bequests are as 
follows:

To his devoted wife, Augusta L. Young, he gives the residence, No. 201 Carlisle 
street, all the household furniture and $35,000 in bonds or stocks, as she may 
select.

To the Foreign Missionary Society and to the Home Missionary Society of the 
Lutheran church of the West Pennsylvania Synod, each five $1,000 five per cent 
bonds.

To the Superannuated Ministers fund of the Lutheran church of the West 
Pennsylvania Synod, five $1,000 five per cent bonds.

To Mrs. Grace Hogentogler, of Harrisburg, Pa., $1,000 and one $500 five per cent 
bond.

To the Third Lutheran church of Hanover, Pa., one $500 five per cent bond.

To the daughters of Mrs. Augusta Craighead, deceased, each a $1,000 five per 
cent bond.

To Charles Young, Emily J. Young, Emelia F. Young, Mrs. Mary A. Young, and 
Charles E. Eltzer, each $5,000.

To the Public Library of Hanover, Pa., $500.

To the York city hospital, of York, Pa., two $1,000 bonds.

The collateral inheritance tax due the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the above 
bequests he directs to be paid out of his estate, so that the said bequests 
shall pass to the several legatees intact and in full.

The residue and remainder of his estate is to be equally divided between the 
Tressler Orphans’ Home at Loysville, Pa., and the Pennsylvania Children’s Home 
Society, of Pittsburgh, Pa., of which Rev. W. Henry Johnson was at the time the 
will was written the superintendent.

The total amount of the bequests is $80,000.

The Hanover Herald – Saturday, November 30, 1912