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Famous Givers and Their Gifts

by Sarah K. Bolton

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  1. 1Title page
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3John Lowell, Jr., and His Free Lectures
  4. 4Stephen Girard and His College for Orphans
  5. 5Andrew Carnegie and His Libraries
  6. 6Thomas Holloway: His Sanatorium and College
  7. 7Charles Pratt and His Institute
  8. 8Thomas Guy and His Hospital
  9. 9Sophia Smith and Her College for Women
  10. 10James Lick and His Telescope
  11. 11Leland Stanford and His University
  12. 12Captain Thomas Coram and His Foundling Asylum
  13. 13Henry Shaw and His Botanical Garden
  14. 14James Smithson and the Smithsonian Institution
  15. 15Pratt, Lenox, Mary Macrae Stuart, Newberry, Crerar, Astor, Reynolds…
  16. 16Frederick H. Rindge and His Gifts
  17. 17Anthony J. Drexel and His Institute
  18. 18Philip D. Armour and His Institute
  19. 19Leonard Case and the School of Applied Science
  20. 20Asa Packer and Lehigh University
  21. 21Cornelius Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt University
  22. 22Baron Maurice De Hirsch
  23. 23Isaac Rich and Boston University
  24. 24Daniel B. Fayerweather and Others
  25. 25Catharine Lorillard Wolfe
  26. 26Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett
  27. 27Mrs. Anna Ottendorfer
  28. 28Daniel P. Stone and Valeria G. Stone
  29. 29Samuel Williston
  30. 30John F. Slater and Daniel Hand, and Their Gifts to the Colored People
  31. 31George T. Angell
  32. 32William W. Corcoran and His Art Gallery
  33. 33John D. Rockefeller and Chicago University

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