Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1905 — GIVES MONEY TO COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

GIVES MONEY TO COLLEGES

Or. P«aaaon>, th. Chicago Philanthropist* Banda Ovsr Soma Wealth to Fire Southern laatltatloas. Chicago, April 28. —Dr. Daniel K. Pearsons, wealthy and well-known philanthropist, has made gifts, amountin* to 1185,000, to five southern colleges. At the same time he rejected the requests of some 400 Institutions In various parts of the country. “This will be all Cor six months," was the characteristic declaration of the physician when he told of the gifts. The recipients are: Guilford college, Greensboro, N. C., $25,000; Piedmont college, Demorest, Ga., $25,000; Washington college, Tennessee, $25,000; Grant university, Chattanooga, Tenn., $50,000; West Virginia seminary, Morgantown, W. Va„ SIO,OOO. "You can say for me," said Dr. Pearsons when seen In his office, “that I am through for the present, and will pay no attention to requests for gifts for six months. It will be about that long a time 'before I will commence again.”