This B&O; railroad director who died in 1873 left $7 million to found a Baltimore hospital & university
He became a director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in 1847 
and ... a will in which he bequeathed $7 million for the incorporation of a free 
hospital and... [DOC] [TLE] The Homewood Campus: Its Buildings, Monuments and Sculpture [PAR] When Johns Hopkins died on December 24, 1873, he left $7 million to be divided 
equally to found a University and a Hospital, both bearing his name.