which
no income (or but a nominal income) is derived:--a lot in
Gloucester County, New Jersey, valued at One hundred Dollars
($100),--a large area of land in Atlantic County, New Jersey,
known as McKee City, assessed for taxation at twenty-thousand six
hundred and fifty Dollars ($20,650) and a tract of coal and
mineral lands in Kentucky, which Colonel McKee always considered
would turn out to be valuable and would eventually realize a
considerable sum. It is assessed for taxation for 1909 at Seventy
thousand Dollars ($70,000)--

In brief the testamentary directions of Colonel McKee are to
accumulate the rents and income of his estate until the decease
of all his children and grand-children, meanwhile improving
(under certain conditions) his unimproved real estate. Upon the
death of all his children and grand-children, the estate is to be
made use of in the establishment and maintenance of a college for
the education of colored and white fatherless boys.

Very truly yours,
JOSEPH P. MCCULLEN
February 23, 1909.

MR. ROBERT E. PARK,
Tuskegee Institute, Ala.,

_Dear Sir:_

Yours of the 13th inst., post marked the 16th inst., has been
received. You state you would be glad to have any information I
can give you about Mr. McKee, particularly in regard to the
amount of the estate he left at the time of his death.

The value of Mr. McKee's estate has been variously estimated from
$1,000,000 to $4,000,000. I am not able to give a more exact
estimate, as I have not seen any inventory made by his executors.
He owned more than 300 houses in this city, all unencumbered. He
also owned oil and coal lands in Kentucky and West Virginia, and
lands in Bath and Steuben Counties, N. Y. As to his personal
characteristics, I would suggest that you see the Philadelphia
Press of April 20, 1902. If you desire a more exact estimate of
the value of his estate, I would suggest that you write Joseph P.
McCullen, Jr., No. 1008 Land Title Building, this city.

Yours truly,
T. J. MINTON.

The following letter from Colonel James Lewis to Booker T. Washington
gives valuable informatio