Word: boorman
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...founder of the soap company, was a trustee of Baptist Theological Seminary at New York City which, established in 1817, was incorporated with the Baptist Education Society at Hamilton, N. Y. They became Hamilton Literary & Theological Institution, then Madison University, and in 1890, Colgate University. Son James Boorman Colgate gave the university $2,200,000 during his lifetime, and joined with other Colgates in the $1,000,000 Dodge Memorial Fund. Son Samuel gave money also but sent his sons Gilbert and the late Sidney Morse Colgate to Yale. Of the present generation it is "Jimmy" Colgate, son of James...