CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



In his earlier journeys through the Middle 

 West, McCormick was distressed at the rough 

 immorality of the new settlements. "I see a 

 great deal of profanity and infidelity in this 

 country, enough to make the heart sick,'* he 

 wrote in 1845. These towns and villages needed 

 more preachers, and better preachers, he thought. 

 Consequently, soon after he had acquired his 

 first million dollars, he determined to establish 

 the best possible college for the education of 

 ministers. He almost stunned with joy the 

 Western friends of higher education for ministers, 

 by offering them $100,000 with which to estab- 

 lish a school of theology in Chicago. This offer 

 was made in 1859 half a century ago, and 

 resulted in the removal of a moneyless and de- 

 caying Seminary at New Albany, Indiana, to 

 Chicago. Thus was founded the Northwestern 

 Theological Seminary, afterwards named the 

 McCormick Theological Seminary, which, in 

 its fifty years of life, has given a Christian edu- 

 cation to thousands of young men. 



Thirteen years later he bought The Interior 

 and made it what it has remained ever since 



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