Her husband, Prof. Henry Draper, whom she married in 1867, was a noted astronomer, and she worked with him in his observatory for many years, becoming proficient in astronomy.
Article published in the Boston Herald, Boston, MA., on Sunday, December 20, 1914, on page 10:
MRS. DRAPER LEFT HARVARD $150,000
Bequest in Memory of Late Husband, Who was Professor at University.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 - Public bequests of upwards of $500,000 were made in the will of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, widow of Prof. Henry Draper of Harvard University, made public today. The will disposes of an estate estimated of more than $1,000,000 Harvard University is left $150,000 in memory of her husband.
The New York Public Library is the chief public beneficiary, being left $50,000 as a trust fund to be used for the benefit of the library employees, while John S. Billings, formerly a director of the library, is left $300,000 in trust for the purchase of books for the library.
Various portraits, relics, art objects, and antiques in the decedent's home in Dobb's Ferry also are left to the library, together with the residue of the estate with the provisio that if this amounts to more than $300,000, sums aggregating $75,000 are to go to three institutions, $25,000 each to the New York Association for the Blind, the Dobb's Ferry Hospital Associates and the Dobb's Free Library.
Mrs. Draper left the mounted heads of animals in her collection to the American Museum of Natural History, and two large imperial Chinese vases to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Other bequests were:
Polyclinic Hospital $50,000; Children's Aid Association, National Academy of Science of New York, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor and the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, $25,000 each."
Article published in the Boston Herald, Boston, MA., on Sunday, December 20, 1914, on page 10:
MRS. DRAPER LEFT HARVARD $150,000
Bequest in Memory of Late Husband, Who was Professor at University.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 - Public bequests of upwards of $500,000 were made in the will of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, widow of Prof. Henry Draper of Harvard University, made public today. The will disposes of an estate estimated of more than $1,000,000 Harvard University is left $150,000 in memory of her husband.
The New York Public Library is the chief public beneficiary, being left $50,000 as a trust fund to be used for the benefit of the library employees, while John S. Billings, formerly a director of the library, is left $300,000 in trust for the purchase of books for the library.
Various portraits, relics, art objects, and antiques in the decedent's home in Dobb's Ferry also are left to the library, together with the residue of the estate with the provisio that if this amounts to more than $300,000, sums aggregating $75,000 are to go to three institutions, $25,000 each to the New York Association for the Blind, the Dobb's Ferry Hospital Associates and the Dobb's Free Library.
Mrs. Draper left the mounted heads of animals in her collection to the American Museum of Natural History, and two large imperial Chinese vases to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Other bequests were:
Polyclinic Hospital $50,000; Children's Aid Association, National Academy of Science of New York, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor and the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, $25,000 each."
Her husband, Prof. Henry Draper, whom she married in 1867, was a noted astronomer, and she worked with him in his observatory for many years, becoming proficient in astronomy.
Article published in the Boston Herald, Boston, MA., on Sunday, December 20, 1914, on page 10:
MRS. DRAPER LEFT HARVARD $150,000
Bequest in Memory of Late Husband, Who was Professor at University.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 - Public bequests of upwards of $500,000 were made in the will of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, widow of Prof. Henry Draper of Harvard University, made public today. The will disposes of an estate estimated of more than $1,000,000 Harvard University is left $150,000 in memory of her husband.
The New York Public Library is the chief public beneficiary, being left $50,000 as a trust fund to be used for the benefit of the library employees, while John S. Billings, formerly a director of the library, is left $300,000 in trust for the purchase of books for the library.
Various portraits, relics, art objects, and antiques in the decedent's home in Dobb's Ferry also are left to the library, together with the residue of the estate with the provisio that if this amounts to more than $300,000, sums aggregating $75,000 are to go to three institutions, $25,000 each to the New York Association for the Blind, the Dobb's Ferry Hospital Associates and the Dobb's Free Library.
Mrs. Draper left the mounted heads of animals in her collection to the American Museum of Natural History, and two large imperial Chinese vases to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Other bequests were:
Polyclinic Hospital $50,000; Children's Aid Association, National Academy of Science of New York, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor and the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, $25,000 each."
Article published in the Boston Herald, Boston, MA., on Sunday, December 20, 1914, on page 10:
MRS. DRAPER LEFT HARVARD $150,000
Bequest in Memory of Late Husband, Who was Professor at University.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 - Public bequests of upwards of $500,000 were made in the will of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, widow of Prof. Henry Draper of Harvard University, made public today. The will disposes of an estate estimated of more than $1,000,000 Harvard University is left $150,000 in memory of her husband.
The New York Public Library is the chief public beneficiary, being left $50,000 as a trust fund to be used for the benefit of the library employees, while John S. Billings, formerly a director of the library, is left $300,000 in trust for the purchase of books for the library.
Various portraits, relics, art objects, and antiques in the decedent's home in Dobb's Ferry also are left to the library, together with the residue of the estate with the provisio that if this amounts to more than $300,000, sums aggregating $75,000 are to go to three institutions, $25,000 each to the New York Association for the Blind, the Dobb's Ferry Hospital Associates and the Dobb's Free Library.
Mrs. Draper left the mounted heads of animals in her collection to the American Museum of Natural History, and two large imperial Chinese vases to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Other bequests were:
Polyclinic Hospital $50,000; Children's Aid Association, National Academy of Science of New York, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor and the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, $25,000 each."
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