New York, Sept. 8—The will of Angier B. Duke, millionaire tobacco merchant, drowned Labor Day at Greenwich, Conn., was filed today. Educational and charitable bequests aggregated $292,000, including $250,000 left to Trinity College, Durham, N.C.
No mention was made in the will of his former wife, Mrs. Cordelia Biddle Duke, daughter of J. Drexel Biddle, who on October 24, 1921, obtained a divorce from him.
Legacies of $20,000 each were provided for three of his executors, conditioned on their acting as such. They are E. Bayard Halsted, George G. Allen and John C. Thorn. A fourth executor, William R. Perkins, is to receive $30,000 under similar conditions. Alfred Gardner, his butler, was bequeathed $500.
Other bequests included Memorial Methodist church, Durham, N.C., $10,000; Methodist Orphanage for white children at Raleigh, N.C.; Methodist Orphanage for white children at Salem, N.C., $5,000; Oxford Orphan Asylum for negro children at Oxford, N.C., $1,000; National Religious Training school at Durham, N.C., $1,000.
To his sister, Mary Duke Biddle, was bequested the family silver and pearls left Mr. Duke by his mother and also one-fourth share of the residuary estate.
The remainder of the estate is left to members of the family.
No petition stating the value of the estate accompanied the will which was attested December 26, 1922. Conservate estimates places the value, however, near $5 million.
From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, Sept. 9, 1923
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