1914-1915 Academic Catalog

ENOOWM1'~NT 1-'UNDS. ROBERT M. COOPER FUND. By the will of Robert 1\L Cooper, a ruling elder in the Cedarville Reformed Presbyterian congregation, the Col• lege in 1903 came into possession of two.thirds of his estate, which amounted to $4,000. HARPER FUND. Mr. George W. Harper and wife, of Cedarville, gen• erously gave $5,000 for the founding and maintenance of a chair of sociology and economics, provided the friends of the College raised an additional $5,000. The condition was more than complied with, about $7,000 being raised. JAMES BURNEY LYONS FUND. Mr. John R. Lyons. of :Marissa, lllinois, gave $500 as a memorial to his son James Burney Lyons, who gave his life as a sacrifice to his country during the Civil War. 1\fr. Lyons, now ninety.nine years old, continues to be a liberal yearly contributor to the College. McLEOD MEMORIAL FUND. In the articles of union of the Twelfth Street Reformed Presbyterian Church with the Scotch Presbyterian Church, New York City, provision was made by the trustees of the united congregation to pay to Cedarville College the interest on $5,000 on May 14th and November 14th, each year, from the McLeod Memorial Fund, in memory of Drs. Alexander McLeod and John Neil l\foLeod, father and son, distin– guished ministers of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, whose combined pastorates of the Twelfth Street, New York congregation covered the period from 1801 to 1874. The Presbytery of New York and Vermont also donated $3,200 to the College to the same revered memory.

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