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...Prague-born, retired Cash Register Salesman Karl D. Umrath, 76, who migrated to the U.S. in 1902 and started as a $6-a-week floor sweeper, was disclosed as the anonymous donor of $1,000,000 to Washington University a year ago, when his wife last week gave the school another $200,000. The Umraths, still living in the modest brick house in St. Louis in which they were married 55 years ago, seemed unlikely bets for anybody's fund-raising list. But Umrath started investing when he arrived in the U.S., during the Depression picked up blue-chip...
Vanderbilt's gift to the College followed close after his $1.4 million donation toward the new Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. A former President of the Board of Trust of Vanderbilt University, he has long been a generous donor to University projects...