Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — GIFT OF THREE MILLION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GIFT OF THREE MILLION.

John D. Rockefeller's Latest Present .to Univers.ty of Chicago. The University of Chicago has again been the recipient of John D. Rockefeller’s beneficence. He has given $3,000,-

000 to the institution under conditions which will ultimately net it $5,000,000. One million dollars of this sum is given outright as an endowment and the remaining $2,000,000 will be placed in the hands of the trustees provided $2,000,000 additional

are raised before the year 1900. If the full $2,000,000 is not raised by that time Mr. Rockefeller will give as much as the subscriptions amount to. Intelligence of this donation was received Saturday morning at a special meeting of the trustees called for the purpose of listening to a proposition from F. T. Gates, the personal representative of Mr. Rockefeller. Mr. Rockefeller has given to the University of Chicago the grand total of $7,425,000, given in installments as follows: May, 1889, $000,000; September, 1890, $1,000,000; February, 1892, $1,000,000; December, 1892, $1,000,000; May. 1893, $150,000; July, 1894, $500,000; December, 1894, $175,000; November, 1895, $3,000,000.

J. D. ROCKEFELLER.