What was the ethnicity of the man who paid for the Kent Free library?
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Kent Free Library The Kent Free Library is a public Carnegie library located in Kent, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Portage Library Consortium, which includes the Portage County Library District and Reed Memorial Library in nearby Ravenna and is a school district library associated with the Kent City School District. The library was established in 1892 as the first use of an 1892 Ohio law that allowed municipalities under 5,000 residents to tax residents for library support. Initially, the library was housed in a downtown Kent business block. Pittsburgh steel industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie offered the then-village of Kent $11,500 for construction of a permanent home for the library in 1901, contingent on a suitable location and voter approval of a tax levy for maintenance. Kent voters approved the measure and town namesake Marvin Kent donated the land. The library opened at its new location on September 26, 1903. The library has undergone several expansions since 1903, with the latest expansion occurring in 2004–06. During the 2004–06 expansion, the three previous additions to the original Carnegie library were demolished and a new three-story addition was built in their places while the original Carnegie library was renovated and restored. The addition tripled available space to approximately 55000 sqft . During construction, the library was housed in Kent's University Plaza shopping center. The current building and the renovated Carnegie portion opened on September 26, 2006, 103 years after the Carnegie library first opened.
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Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie ( , but commonly or ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist.
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Rowland Hill (MP) Sir Rowland Hill of London and Soulton Hall (ca. 1495–1561) was the first Protestant Lord Mayor of London. He was a merchant, statesman and philanthropist.
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James Blackstone Memorial Library James Blackstone Memorial Library is a public library located in Branford, Connecticut. It is commonly referred to as the Blackstone Library or the Branford Library. The library was commissioned by Timothy Blackstone as a memorial to his father, James Blackstone. It was designed by Chicago architect Solon Spencer Beman. Construction on the building began in 1893 and was completed in 1896. The building was dedicated on June 17, 1896.
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Harry Männil Harry Männil (May 17, 1920 – January 11, 2010), also known as Harry Mannil Laul , was an Estonian businessman, art collector, and cultural benefactor in several countries.
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Trevor Chinn Sir Trevor Edwin Chinn, CVO (born 24 July 1935) is a British businessman and philanthropist.
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Alan Higgs Alan Edward Higgs was a successful self-made businessman who became a multimillionaire mainly from his house building business in Coventry, as well as from other businesses in Birmingham, England. He died in 1979, and because he thought that inherited wealth did more harm than good, he made provision for a charity to be created after his death to help deprived children from Coventry and nearby localities.
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John Kent (hymnist) John Kent (December 1766 – November 15, 1843) was an English Calvinist Baptist writer of hymns.
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William Kent (Irish politician) Kent and three brothers—Thomas, David and Richard—were involved in a gunfight with the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) at their home, Bawnard, in Castlelyons, County Cork in May 1916, following the Easter Rising, in which Richard was killed, as well as a head constable. Thomas was courtmartialled for the killing and executed, and David was sentenced to death, which was commuted to life imprisonment, but William was acquitted.
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Gerald Nagler Gerald Nagler (born December 10, 1929 in Vienna) is an Austrian-Swedish businessman. He also advocated for human rights.
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John Knox (philanthropist) John Knox (1720 – 1 August 1790 in Dalkeith) was a Scottish bookseller and philanthropist.
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Albert Kahn (banker) Albert Kahn (3 March 1860 – 14 November 1940) was a French banker and philanthropist, known for initiating "The Archives of the Planet", a vast photographical project. Spanning 22 years, it resulted in a collection of 72,000 colour photographs and 183,000 meters of film.
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Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy Abraham Ernst Mendelssohn Bartholdy (born Abraham Mendelssohn; 10 December 1776 – 19 November 1835) was a German banker and philanthropist. He was the father of Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn.
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Joseph Mailman Joseph Lawrence Mailman was a U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
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Thomy Lafon Thomy Lafon (1810-1893) was a Creole businessman, philanthropist and human rights activist in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was born poor, on 28 December 1810, as a free person of color. He started out selling cakes to workers, opened a small store, was a school teacher for a time, and became successful at money lending and real estate investment. He was an opponent of slavery and supported racial integration in schools. Lafon is mostly known for his large donations to the American Anti-Slavery Society, the Underground Railroad, the Catholic School for Indigent Orphans, the Louisiana Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans, and other charities for both blacks and whites.
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Jim Kent William James Kent (born February 10, 1960) is an American research scientist and computer programmer. He has been a contributor to genome database projects and the 2003 winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award.
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Mitcham Library Mitcham Library is a public library in Mitcham, England, being one of the libraries of the London Borough of Merton. It was built in 1933 on land donated by a local builder, Mr Joseph Owen. In April 1932 he donated £4,025 towards its construction.
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Walter C. Koerner Library The Walter C. Koerner Library is an academic library at the Vancouver campus of the University of British Columbia. The library is named after Walter C. Koerner, a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. Walter C. Koerner Library forms the main academic and general resource library collection at the University of British Columbia.
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Geoffrey Kent Geoffrey JW Kent (Born July 14, 1942) is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Abercrombie & Kent, an international luxury travel company.
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Thomas Kent Thomas Kent (Irish: "Tomás Ceannt" ; 29 August 1865 – 9 May 1916) was an Irish nationalist who was court-martialled and executed following a gunfight with the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) on 2 May 1916, in the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising.
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Barry Ono Barry Ono (1876–1941) was a British variety theatre performer, collector of penny dreadfuls and benefactor of the British Library. His collection of songbooks was bequeathed to the British Library in 1941.
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Alan G. Thomas Alan Gradon Thomas (19 October 1911, Hampstead, London - 3 August 1992), was an English bibliophile. He was both a friend of Lawrence Durrell and scholar of his works. After Durrell's death, Thomas donated a significant collection of books, journals and other materials of or pertaining to Durrell to the British Library. This is maintained as the Lawrence Durrell Collection.