JOSEPH WRIGHT FUND

Created: 1947

By Decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, dated June 26, 1946, Wright’s Industrial and Beneficial Institute of Frankford was dissolved, and the assets of the corporation were awarded to the City of Philadelphia, acting by the Board of Directors of City Trusts, in trust, one-third of the income therefrom to be paid over to the Trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia for the exclusive benefit of the Frankford Branch, and the balance of said income to be used for the poor as near as may be in keeping with the purposes specified in the Will of Joseph Wright, deceased (those living within a circuit of one mile from the corner of Main and Sellers Streets, in Frankford).

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