Ezra Cornell - Ithaca, NY
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N 42° 26.933 W 076° 29.113
18T E 377864 N 4700685
This statue is on Cornell University Campus near Central Ave. It is the "work of Hermon Atkins MacNeil". Ezra Cornell's statue was dedicated June 12, 1919, ...Mary Cornell, Ezra's daughter, unveiled the Arts Quad sculpture "
Waymark Code: WMQAFG
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 01/23/2016
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wikipedia: "Ezra Cornell (January 11, 1807 – December 9, 1874) was an American businessman, politician, philanthropist and educational administrator. He was the founder of Western Union and a co-founder of Cornell University. He also served as President of the New York Agriculture Society and as a New York state Senator...Cornell made his fortune in the telegraph business as an associate of Samuel Morse, having gained his trust by constructing and stringing the telegraph poles between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland, as the first ever telegraph line of substance in the U.S. To address the problem of telegraph lines shorting out to the ground, Cornell invented the idea of using glass insulators at the point where telegraph lines are connected to supporting poles...Cornell retired from Western Union and turned his attention to philanthropy. He endowed the Cornell Library, a public library for the citizens of Ithaca. A lifelong enthusiast of science and agriculture, he saw great opportunity in the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act to found a university that would teach practical subjects on an equal basis with the classics favored by more traditional institutions. Andrew Dickson White helped secure the new institution's status as New York's land grant university, and Cornell University was granted a charter through their efforts in 1865. "
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