Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — THE GIFT OF $2,600,000. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE GIFT OF $2,600,000.

John I>. Rockefeller and the University of Chicago, Professor R. Harper, President of the University of Chicago, has been guaranteed $5,000,000 by wealthy Baptists. Of these John D. Rockefeller has given what most people would regard as his full share, in a magnificent donation of $2,000,000. The last million was recently delivered. Mr. Rockefeller is president of the largest corporation in the world, namely, the Standard Oil Trust. 110

is one of the wealthiest men in the United States, although still young in the years of middle life and a poor man not many years ago. His res ( - dence, which is in New York, is under the observation of one of a corps of private policemen every moment of the day and night, to protect him from the attention of “cranks.” He is an earnest member of the Baptist denomination, and gives liberally to struggling churches belonging to it. ' There is a horse on a farm in South Dakota which has eight feet; otherwise it is perfectly formed in every respect. Not until the fetlock joint is reached in the descent from the shoulder to the foot is there any difference between this borse and any other.

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER.