Ezra Cornell

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so I applied for a scholarship to Cornell University as a direct descendant of Ezra Cornell (my maiden name is Cornell).

SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Jill Tarter -- Beating the Odds 2010

It's a statement made by the university's founder, Ezra Cornell: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."

Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007

It's a statement made by the university's founder, Ezra Cornell: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."

"The wind of freedom blows." "No, that slogan blows." Ann Althouse 2007

From the moment of the first success of Professor Morse with his experiments in telegraphy, Mr. Sibley had been quick to discern the vast promise of the invention; and in 1840 he went to Washington to assist Professor Morse and Ezra Cornell in procuring an appropriation of $40,000 from Congress to build a line from Washington to Baltimore, the first put up in America.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various

Andrew D. White, whose genius, scholarship, and organization enabled Ezra Cornell to found Cornell University, was another of my college mates.

My Memories of Eighty Years Depew, Chauncey M 1922

Among the latter are the addresses on Edwin M. Stanton, Ezra Cornell, William Chambers, his pleas for international peace, his numerous dedicatory and founders day addresses.

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 1920

Another Quaker, Ezra Cornell, is also associated with the name of a great university.

American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

Company, which, for many years, held a monopoly of the telegraph business of the country, and which made Ezra Cornell a millionaire.

American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

Now Ezra Cornell contributed his invention of an inverted cup of glass for insulating live wires.

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

Ezra Cornell, afterwards a famous builder of telegraphs and founder of Cornell University, first appears in history as a young man of thirty-six.

The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906