Compendium of history and biography of Hillsdale County, Michigan Elon G. Reynolds, editor.

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2,194.97
2,354.78
2,837.95
2,368.13
1,616.45
624.70
3,269.52
33,652.25
592.81
2,025.21
3,574.30
777.86
3,307.53
735.90
17,222.94
6,727.97
1,660.47
16,319.88
16,198.76
13,236.41
2,726.22
13,543.72
1,992.62
662.21
2,377.23
* —1,574.11
1,161.42
2,605.31
3,530.70
4,336.13

85,744.54
88,099.37
90,937.32
93,305.45
94,921.90
95,546.60
98,815.12
131,467.37
132,060.18
134,085.39
137,659.69
138,437.55
141,745.08
142,480.98
159,703.92
166,421.89
168,082.36
184,402.24
200,601.00
213,837.41
216,563.63
230,107.35
232,099.97
232,762.18
235,139.41
233,565.30
234,726.72
237,332.03
240,862.73
245,798.86

*$6,692.86 transferred to Building Fund and Bills
Receivable.
*$1,450.00 shrinkage in gift lands sold.
It will be seen from the above that the amount
of endowment actually paid in during the first
half of the forty-eight years the college has been
running was $95,546.60, while the amount collected during the last half of said time has been
$149,652.26, or $54,105.66 more than in the first
half. During the said latter half there have been
five gifts of $Io,ooo or more each, viz., in I880, to
endow the Waldron professorship, $15,000, by
Rev. C. N. Waldron, Mrs. Caroline M. Waldron
and Mrs. Mary Waterman; I88I, for the theological endowment, $17,000, by the Free Baptist
Education Society; I885, to endow a professorship (theological), $Io,ooo, by Rev. and Mrs. S.
F. Smith; I888 and later, to endow a professorship, etc. (theological), $I7,0OO, by A. B. and
Mrs. Mary P. De Wolf; I89I and later, to endow
a professorship (mathematics), $I5,0oo, by John
S. Hart.
These gifts, aggregating $74,000, were all procured by the personal solicitation and influence of
Rev. R. Dunn, who obtained enough other notes
and subscriptions, together with his own gifts, to
make a total aggregate of $IO6,849,14. The

other agents residing in the county, who raised
the next largest amounts, as reported in the books,
were: Rev. D. L. Rice, $42,956.59; Prof. S. J.
Fowler, $23,0o8; Rev. L. S. Parmelee, $I7,050.
For buildings and endowment, Hon. Henry Waldron gave $6,000, Col. Frederick Fowler, $8,000
and Aaron Worthing, $9,500. In 1890 Rev. and
Mrs. Schuyler Aldrich gave property of $Io,ooo
to endow a professorship, and other professorships have been named for William Burr, David
Marks, Spencer J. Fowler and Ransom Dunn.
The Woman's Commission has raised $5,ooo towards completing the endowment of the Lady
Principal's chair and Mrs. Delia Whipple Wheelock, the first lady elected lady principal has paid
something over $5,ooo for a memorial fund for
her brother, Prof. H. E. Whipple. The Alumni
have paid over $Io,oo0 towards the endowment
of their professorship, and the trustees have themselves paid over $I5,OOO towards the endowment
of the president's chair. Albion S. Jaquith, who
graduated in 1871, gave 400 acres of land in Kansas, which has this year been sold for $7,ooo, for
a library fund.
The library of the college has grown till it
now contains over I,ooo volumes, besides magazines and pamphlets, and it is being used more
and more by the students, and is consulted by
those doing club work in the city and in towns
around, and by those of culture and literary tastes
over the country. Now that, by the gifts of Rev.
Truman Parks, Albion S. Jaquith and others, an
annual income of $500 or more is assured, additions of valuable books can be made each year.
In the first four catalogues Professor Dunn's
name appeared on the faculty page as "Professor
of Mental' and Moral Philosophy and Natural
Theology," and in the next three catalogues as
"Lecturer on Natural Theology and Evidences of
Christianity." He had classes and gave lectures
more or less of the time to those who had the
ministry in view, but there was no theological department established. In I862 the General Conference of the denomination appropriated $3,000
from the profits of the printing establishment,
as the nucleus for the endowment of a theological
professorship, and the next year Professor Dunn