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DANIEL COIT OILMAN. 



Association ; president of the board of trustees of the John F. 

 Slater Fund ; vice-president of the Peabody Education Fund ; 

 an incorporator of the General Education Board, was for three 

 years president of the Carnegie Institution, and became later a 

 trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation. He received the 

 honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard University 

 and from St. John's College, Maryland, in 1876; from Colum- 

 bia University in 1867 ; from Yale University and from the 

 University of North Carolina in 1889; from Princeton in 1896; 

 from the University of Toronto in 1903 ; from the University of 

 Wisconsin in 1904 ; from William and Mary College and from 

 Clark University in 1905. 



In his multifarious and important duties he never sought 

 political preferment, personal fame, or pecuniary reward, but 

 through a life of great activity " held his rudder true" with an 

 unswerving purpose to acquire and impart useful knowledge, 

 and by his voice and pen and personal influence to realize the 

 hopes of his youth in promoting and advancing sound education 

 in all departments from primary and technical schools to the 

 highest institutions of learning. 



Between 1853 and 1908 he made ten voyages to Europe 

 extending his travels to Algiers, Egypt and Jerusalem. The 

 summer of 1908 was spent for the most part in southern Europe. 

 He returned on October 7, seemingly in improved health, and 

 after brief visits to his daughter and to relatives in Newport he 

 went to the home of his sisters in Norwich, Connecticut, where 

 he died suddenly on Tuesday afternoon, October 13, 1908. 



He married in 1861, Mary Keycham, daughter of Tredwell 

 Keycham, of New York. She died in 1869, leaving two 

 daughters who survive their father. 



In 1877 he married Elizabeth Dwight Woolsey, daughter of 

 John M. Woolsey of Cleveland, Ohio, and niece of President 

 Theodore Dwight Woolsey, of Yale University. 



His domestic relations were of the happiest, and during his 

 long official career the liberal and gracious hospitality of his 

 household to all sorts and conditions of men, from youthful 

 students to eminent scholars of world-wide distinction, con- 

 tributed not a little to the promotion of the interests which were 

 dear to his heart. William C. Oilman. 



