In 1861 a brewer with this last name gave $408,000 to the trustees at a Poughkeepsie women's college
... securities worth $408,000 and a deed for two hundred acres for the 
college... [DOC] [TLE] Vassar College | college, Poughkeepsie, New York, United States ... [PAR] In 1898, Vassar became the first women's college to have a chapter of the Phi 
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