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Originally Posted by jkc2j
Not sure what naming Cornelius Vanderbilt has to do with anything, the school is in Nashville, can't change that.
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Andrew Carnegie and the Mellons did a ton of business in Pittsburgh and that's why there is a Carnegie-Mellon University. Leonard Case was from Cleveland and that's why they have Case Western Reserve.
The bolded sentence reads like a certain line from
Space Balls:
"The $1 million that he gave to endow and build the university was Vanderbilt's only major philanthropy. Methodist Bishop Holland N. McTyeire of Nashville, husband of Amelia Townsend who was a cousin of Vanderbilt's young second wife Frank Crawford, went to New York for medical treatment early in 1873 and spent time recovering in the Vanderbilt mansion. He won the Vanderbilts' admiration and support for the project of building a university in the South that would "contribute to strengthening the ties which should exist between all sections of our common country."
The world is really that random, folks.
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