Inventors . tobe established in Chicago. This was done, andduring his lifetime he gave about half a mill-ion dollars to this institution—the TheologicalSeminary of the Northwest. The McCormickprofessorship of natural philosophy in theWashington and Lee University of Virginia, andgifts to the Union Theological Seminary atHampden-Sidney, and to the college at Has-tings, Neb., also attest his solicitude for thechurch in which he had been reared and ofwhich he had been a member since 1834. In1872 he came to the aid of the struggling organof the Presbyterian Church in the Northwest, theInterior, an

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Inventors . tobe established in Chicago. This was done, andduring his lifetime he gave about half a mill-ion dollars to this institution—the TheologicalSeminary of the Northwest. The McCormickprofessorship of natural philosophy in theWashington and Lee University of Virginia, andgifts to the Union Theological Seminary atHampden-Sidney, and to the college at Has-tings, Neb., also attest his solicitude for thechurch in which he had been reared and ofwhich he had been a member since 1834. In1872 he came to the aid of the struggling organof the Presbyterian Church in the Northwest, theInterior, and used it to foster union between theOld and the New Schools in the church, to aidin harmonizing the Presbyterian Church in theNorth and South, to advance the interests of theTheological Seminary, and to promote the wel-fare of the Presbyterian Church in the North-west. Under his care and advice the Interiorgrew to be a mighty voice, expressing the con-victions, the aspirations, and hopes of a

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