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Name
Carnegie Corporation of New York (Author)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
Home Trust Company (Author)
Title
Carnegie Gifts and Grants to Lombard College, Illinois
Collection Name
Carnegie Corporation of New York Records
Archival Context
Series II. Files on Microfilm. II.A. Gifts and Grants. II.A.4. Universities, Colleges, and Schools
Subjects
Universities and colleges--Finance; Universities and colleges--Endowments; Education, Higher--Finance; Galesburg (Ill.); Lombard College
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Origin Information
1906-02-02
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
digitized microfilm
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 73
Note (Status of gift)
Promised and made
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note)
Lombard College was a Universalist college located in Galesburg, Illinois. Lombard College was founded in 1853 by the Universalist Church as the Illinois Liberal Institute. In 1855, however, a major fire damaged much of the college, placing its future at risk, but a large gift from Benjamin Lombard (1815-1882), a Massachusetts-born farmer and businessman, rescued the institution, rechristened as Lombard University. The official name of the school was changed to Lombard College...When the college closed in 1930, the Lombard charter was transferred to Meadville Theological School in Chicago. a Unitarian seminary, bringing with it Lombard's privilege of a tax exemption, 'one of only three in Illinois granting full tax-exempt status in perpetuity for all college-owned property.' In 1964 the school adopted the name 'Meadville Theological School of Lombard College'. The combined institution later became Meadville Lombard Theological School." [SOURCE: "Lombard College." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_College. Accessed 6 Sep. 2018.]
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Copyright Status
No Copyright - United States
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-pgsa-0933