True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 192
ful for having himdischarged, but I will prove to you that he was, on the con-trary, the most liberal man in the world. GEORGE PEABODY 193 As far back as 1835, Mr. Peabody gave to the State of Mary-land the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, for which theLegislature sent him a vote of thanks.… … MEMORIAL HALL, HARVARD COLLEGE.Harvard College received the gift of $150,000 from George Peabody. Peabody gave ten thousand dollars to help in this great under-taking. The same year he concluded to build a library andto stock it with books in his old home down in Danvers, Mas-sachusetts. So he gave…
