Книга: Matthew Vassar «The Autobiography And Letters Of Matthew Vassar (1916)»
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Matthew Vassar
Matthew Vassar (April 29, 1792 – June 23, 1868) was an English-born American brewer and merchant. He founded the eponymous Vassar College in 1861. He was a cousin of John Ellison Vassar.[1]
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Background
He was born in East Dereham, Norfolk, England. In 1796, he emigrated with his family to New York and settled on a farm near Poughkeepsie. When Vassar was 14 years old, his parents had him apprenticed to a tanner.
Business career
One day before he was to begin his apprenticeship, he ran away to Newburgh, New York, subsequently entering the brewing business. He took over his family's small brewery at the age of eighteen. Over the next several decades he developed his Poughkeepsie brewery into one of the country's largest, by the 1830s becoming perhaps the first to achieve nationwide distribution to every state and amassing a sizable personal fortune in the process.[citation needed]
Vassar College
Lydia Booth, a niece of Matthew Vassar, encouraged him to establish a women's college in the United States, which would be located in Poughkeepsie. In January 1861, the New York Legislature passed an act to incorporate Vassar College, one of the first women's colleges in the U.S. On 26 February 1861, Matthew Vassar presented the college's Board of Trustees with a tin box containing half of his fortune, $408,000 (approximately $9,700,000 in 2008 dollars) and a deed of conveyance for 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land to establish the campus.[2] On June 23, 1868, Vassar delivered his farewell address to the Vassar College Board of Trustees; he died in the middle of delivering the eleventh page of the speech.[3] In a bill enacted on 15 July 1870, the U.S. Congress waived any tax claim(s) to the donation to the college.[4]
Legacy
Matthew Vassar's home, Springside, located south of Poughkeepsie, is a National Historic Landmark.
References
Sources
- Gregg Smith, Beer in America: The Early Years—1587-1840 (Boulder, CO: Siris Books, 1998)
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.
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- 1792 births
- 1868 deaths
- American educators
- Businesspeople in the brewing industry
- American people of English descent
- English emigrants to the United States
- People from East Dereham
- People from Newburgh, New York
- People from Poughkeepsie, New York
- Vassar College
- American business biography, Pre 19th century births stubs
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