1908-1909 Academic Catalog

CeDARVILLE COLLEGE. ENDOWMENT AND INCOME. GIBSON FUND. The Cedarville College had its practical origin through the liberality of William Gibson, Esq., of Cincinnati, who bequeathed $25,000 for the endowment fund of a college to be erected at Cedarville, Ohio, in memory of his father, Peter Gibson, for many years a prominent member and ruling elder in the First Reformed Presbyterian congrega– tion of Cincinnati. COOPER FUN O. By the will of the late Robert M. Cooper, a ruling cider in the Cedarville Reformed Presbyterian congregation, the Col!cge, in the Fall of 1903, came into possession of two– thirds of his farm, valued at $6,000. Though dead, these men yet speak. Their memory is precious. HARPER FUND. Mr. G. W. Harper and wife, of Cedarville, generously gave $5,000 for the founding and maintenance of a chair in Finance, Banking, Transportation and Economics, pro– vided the friends of the College raise an additional $5,000. This fund was raised, and instruction began in September, 1 907- JAMES LYONS FUND. The College is gratcfolly indebted to Mr. John R. Lyons, of Marissa, Illinois, who gave $500 to be funded as a -9-