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Famous Givers and Their Gifts

Famous Givers and Their Gifts

by Sarah Knowles Bolton

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Author
Bolton, Sarah Knowles, 1841-1916
Credits
E-text prepared by Shaun Pinder, Martin Pettit, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
Language
English
LoC Class
HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
Subject
Philanthropists
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 50772
Release Date
December 27, 2015
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.Mrs. Bolton's Famous Books. — Famous Givers and Their Gifts
  3. 3.PREFACE.
  4. 4.CONTENTS.
  5. 5.JOHN LOWELL, Jr., AND HIS FREE LECTURES.
  6. 6.STEPHEN GIRARD AND HIS COLLEGE FOR ORPHANS.
  7. 7.ANDREW CARNEGIE AND HIS LIBRARIES.
  8. 8.THOMAS HOLLOWAY: HIS SANATORIUM AND COLLEGE.
  9. 9.CHARLES PRATT AND HIS INSTITUTE.
  10. 10.THOMAS GUY AND HIS HOSPITAL.
  11. 11.SOPHIA SMITH AND HER COLLEGE FOR WOMEN.
  12. 12.JAMES LICK AND HIS TELESCOPE.
  13. 13.LELAND STANFORD AND HIS UNIVERSITY.
  14. 14.CAPTAIN THOMAS CORAM AND HIS FOUNDLING ASYLUM.
  15. 15.HENRY SHAW AND HIS BOTANICAL GARDEN.
  16. 16.JAMES SMITHSON AND THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
  17. 17.PRATT, LENOX, MARY MACRAE STUART, NEWBERRY, CRERAR, ASTOR, REYNOLDS, AND THEIR LIBRARIES. — ENOCH PRATT. — JAMES LENOX. — MARY MACRAE STUART. — WALTER L. NEWBERRY. — JOHN CRERAR. — JOHN JACOB ASTOR. — MORTIMER FABRICIUS REYNOLDS.
  18. 18.FREDERICK H. RINDGE AND HIS GIFTS.
  19. 19.ANTHONY J. DREXEL AND HIS INSTITUTE.
  20. 20.PHILIP D. ARMOUR AND HIS INSTITUTE.
  21. 21.LEONARD CASE AND THE SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE.
  22. 22.ASA PACKER AND LEHIGH UNIVERSITY.
  23. 23.CORNELIUS VANDERBILT AND VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY.
  24. 24.BARON MAURICE DE HIRSCH.
  25. 25.ISAAC RICH AND BOSTON UNIVERSITY.
  26. 26.DANIEL B. FAYERWEATHER AND OTHERS — GEORGE I. SENEY, — HORACE KELLEY, — MR. HART A. MASSEY,
  27. 27.CATHARINE LORILLARD WOLFE.
  28. 28.MISS MARY ELIZABETH GARRETT
  29. 29.MRS. ANNA OTTENDORFER.
  30. 30.DANIEL P. STONE AND VALERIA G. STONE.
  31. 31.SAMUEL WILLISTON,
  32. 32.JOHN F. SLATER AND DANIEL HAND, AND THEIR GIFTS TO THE COLORED PEOPLE. — DANIEL HAND
  33. 33.GEORGE T. ANGELL.
  34. 34.WILLIAM W. CORCORAN AND HIS ART GALLERY.
  35. 35.JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER AND CHICAGO UNIVERSITY.

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