Show 1 I f MEN OF THE TIME I I Ir r r 7 V 1i i J tHG I iii iJ 1 1 b I tl t r r I qfr I r 1 I ia f 11 g t i A t 1 r f l S i ra I1I r IIIi t r Z I J J J V5 l < < f fJj r I 1 1 j 1 r 5f4i J j Kis nr 1 mssfl I yI f t r Jd < I vrfR i1 fi t eV ft J1 jfrIl Jf 7iff I r11 ffi iP 1 < I f tt1 < > f w 1 J jf X671 1 1 6 z I f JI ffI l j g wasN r f f A Munificent Old Bachelor I 0 JONAS GILMAN CLARK 1 WHO GIVES A MrBTiTOK DoiiiiAns FOR A UxnERsrrr AT WORCESTER MASS 0 I The millionaire whose kindly features > are pictured above Jonas Gilman Clark has made arrangements for the I establishment of a university at Worcester Wor-cester Mass The project is his and i he gives a million dollars with which 1 to carry it out If mora money shall be needed the understanding is that j 1 more shali be forthcoming from the i same source The buildings of Clark University will stand on eight acres of J ground and will form the principal i architectural feature of Worcester IMr I Clark intends that the University J to be named after him shall have professional t pro-fessional as well as academic studies and that its management shall be inde I pendent of any church or party i Mr Clark was born at Hubbaids 1 town near Worcester on February 1 1815 I His father was a farmer and i i taught him agricultural work But lie j j preferred other occupation left home and learned to be a carnage builder f After following this business for a time I he engaged in the manufacture of tin articles which led him into dealing in hardware and such goods He went to California among the earliest and sold profitably hardware furniture I outfits etc Mr Clark was the staunchest staunch-est sort of Union man during the war interesting himself conspicuously in the work of the Union League of which he was the Grand Treasurer of his State He bought a large number of Government Gov-ernment bonds and invested wisely in San Francisco real estate When in 1864 he returned to the East he took with him gold with which to buy greenbacks and bought real estate in New York and Boston He then went to Europe for a time Returning he settled down at his birthplace which he made a present of a fifty thousand dollar Town Hall and a library building build-ing The noble house in which he lives is part of much property owned by him in Worcester County It con tiin3 n valuable collection of manu tCtijits and books I |