 In his will, he cancelled a $25,000 mortgage First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore and left $20,000 to Princeton College.From 1849 until his death, he was president of the House of Refuge for Juvenile Offenders, and also served as the first president of the Baltimore Association for the Improvements of the Conditions of the Poor.He was also an original trustee, appointed by George Peabody, of the Peabody Institute from its inception in 1857 until his death in 1859.