1910-1911 Academic Catalog

CBDARVILLr!. COLLEGE. ENDOWMENT AND INCOME. GIBSON FUND. The Cedarville College had its practical origin through the liberality of VJilliam Gibson, E sq., 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 of the F irst Reformed Presbyterian congrega– tion of Cincinnati. COOPER FUND. By the will of the late Robert M. Cooper, a ruling elder in the Cedarville Reformed P resbyterian congregation, the College, in the Fall of 1903, came into possession of two • thirds of his farm, valued at $6,000. H A RPER FUND, Mr. G. W . Harper and wife, of Cedarville, generously gave $5,000 for the founding and maintenance of a chair in Sociology and Economics, provided the friends of the College raise an additional $5,000. This fu nd was raised, and instruction began in September, 1907. JAM ES L YONS FUND. 'l'he College is gratefully indebted to Mr. John R. Lyons, of Marissa, Illinois, who gave $500 to be funded as a memorial to his son, James Lyons, who gave his life as a sacrifice to his country during the Civil War.