Rose Hulman Institute of Technology - Modulus Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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cipal labor of building the T. H. I., and contributed largely to the building of the E. T. H. and the roads to Crawfordsville and to Danville. Mr. Rose was not indifferent to religion. He contributed toward nearly every church in Terre Haute, and was always a pretty regular attendant at church. When he came west, Mr. Rose promised to visit his mother in Connecticut every year. This annual visit was often performed on horse back and rarely omitted, during his mother’s life. After her death he gave the old homestead to the town of Wethersfield, with $3,000 to improve it, and added $2,000 for the town library, and $12,000 to endow an academy. Mr. Rose dispensed many private charities unknown to any one but the recip- ients and himself, and for some years before his death was chiefly exercised in de- termining the most suitable way to dispose of his fortune to the best advantage of the community in which it had been acquired. One act in his life is especially unique and remarkable. He found that, for many reasons, the will of his brother, if executed under the laws of New York, would not accomplish his brother’s clearly defined intentions. He accordingly in- stituted legal proceedings, and after nearly six years of vexatious litigation, suc- ceeded in setting the will aside. He then became sole heir to an estate of $1,600,- 000. As the representative of his brother, therefore, voluntarily and without any compulsion, he disposed of this large sum in charities in New York in such a way as to carry out his brother’s intentions. Mr. Rose then began to arrange for the final disposition of his own estate, very large for that time and place. His principal donations were to the Ladies’ Aid Society, to the founding of the-Rose Free Dispensary, the Rose Orphans’ Home and the Rose Polytechnic Institute, in all over a million dollars in and about Terre Haute. This is a brief resumé of the principal events in the life of this distinguished man. Such events as would properly appear in a formal memoir; here we may be permitted to add a few traits, incidents, etc., that we have picked up here and A memoir of Chauncey Rose was compiled and published in 1883. From it the above data have been obtained.

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