Mary Couts Burnett Library - Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
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Waymark Code: WM5T8Z
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/09/2009
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The Mary Couts Burnett Library honors a woman who gave her entire estate to TCU, a gift of singular importance to the University’s financial survival and subsequent growth. Born in 1856, she was one of five daughters of Colonel James Robertson Couts, a prominent banker and rancher in Parker County. The Colonel is known to have been an admirer of Addison Clark who, with his brother Randolph, founded in Thorp Spring the school which would eventually become Texas Christian University. In December of 1923, she surprised and shocked TCU by informing the University it would receive nearly her entire estate in trust -- something over 3 million (equivalent to about 36 million in 1991 dollars). Before this moment, Mrs. Burnett had no known ties with or interest in the University. Read the rest here:
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