The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.9, page 267, May 1907, U. of Illinois Press

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MAY · 1 907 GIVER SHUNS PUBLICITY Miss Jeanes could not be seen last night at the Germantown Home for Friends, which is located at Washington Lane and Greene Street. She refused to see reporters or to discuss her latest gift. It was Miss 3eanes' wish, Dr. Washington said, that the affair be given no more publicity than necessary. Miss manes has endowed a number of institutions, and most of her benefactions have been in the names of her dead brothers and sisters, whose shares of the family fortune she inherited. She is a daughter of Isaac Jeanes. She had four brothers and one sister. One brother, Dr. Jacob Jeanes, with Dr. Constantine Hering and Dr. Walter Williamson, founded the Hahnemann Medical College in 1848. The other three brothers—Samuel, Joshua and Joseph— built up a large fortune in the dry goods business in this city a number of years ago. She has at all times sought to avoid publicity in her gifts, and until a few years ago, lived alone with her servants at No. good Arch Street. Her fortune now amounts to nearly $~,ooo,ooo. TEXT OF DEED OF TRUST The deed of trust which she on Monday signed to make her gift to Negro education imperative reads as follows: Know all men by these presents: That I, Anna T. Jeanes, of the city of Philadelphia, trusting and believing in the practicable and far-reaching good that may result from the moral and elevating influence of rural schools for Negroes in the Southern States, taught by reputable teachers, do hereby make, constitute and appoint Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala., and Hollis Burke Frissell, Hampton, Va., and their successors in the trust appointed or created as hereinafter directed, the trustees of an endowment fund in perpetuity of one million dollars, which is hereby created, to be known as ''The Fund for Rudimentary Schools for Southern Negroes,'' the income whereof shall be devoted to the sole purpose of assisting in the Southern United States, community, country and rural schools for the great class of Negroes to whom the small rural and community schools are alone available; and I further nominate, constitute and appoint the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities as and for the ''fiscal agent'' of the said trustees and their successors in the trust, with full power 267