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Jonas Gilman Clark

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jonas Gilman Clark 1815-1900, founder of Clark Univ., b. Hubbardston, Mass. After a long career in business and finance, he became interested in higher education, making extended trips of observation abroad and interviewing American college presidents. In 1887 he founded Clark Univ. at Worcester, Mass., with an endowment of $1 million, to which, by his will, was added his residuary estate for the establishment of Clark College, the undergraduate school. Author not available, CLARK, JONAS GILMAN. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
American Colleges Develop Research Roles
...President Daniel Coit Gilman, Johns Hopkins provided...model were soon founded: Clark University, Worcester...million-dollar gift from Jonas Gilman Clark; Catholic University...Rockefeller family. Clark University, headed by...subjects. Registration at Clark University ... Read more
The 1900s: Education: Deaths
...s Reconstruction government, 22 July 1903. Jonas G. Clark, 85, who founded and endowed Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, 23...mathematics at Yale, 28 April 1903. Daniel Coit Gilman, 77, first president of Johns Hopkins University... Read more

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