Leonard Case Jr.

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Leonard Case Jr.
Cincinnati Law School (1844)
Known forEndower of Case School of Applied Science
Founder of Yale's Scroll and Key
Parent(s)Leonard Case Sr.
Elizabeth Gaylord
RelativesWilliam Case (brother)
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Leonard Case Jr. (January 27, 1820 – January 6, 1880) was a philanthropist from

Case School of Applied Science[1] (later Case Institute of Technology, merging with Western Reserve University to become Case Western Reserve University
).

Biography

Case was born in

Cleveland Plain Dealer as saying, "how to dispose of the property so that it shall most benefit the city has given me much concern, but on one thing I am determined. Not a dollar of it shall, so far as I can help, go into the hands of politicians to be mismanaged and wasted."[8]

Leonard never married. Though he was ill for all his life, he was devoted to academic affairs. His most famous poem Treasure Trove, appeared in the

Atlantic Monthly, wrote back saying: "Dear Sir:- Your note, returning the check for 'Treasure Trove,' reached me; and I can only now mingle surprise for so unexpected courtesy with acknowledgements for it. It may, perhaps, be something of a return for the pecuniary abnegation to learn that both Holmes and Saxe spoke highly of the poem..."[10] The work was later published in 1873 by James R. Osgood
and Company.

Leonard concealed his involvement in a work published in 1876 known as Vocabulary of English Rhymes: Arranged on a New Plan, paying and supporting fellow Yale alumnus, Samuel Weed Barnum, to devote two and half years to its creation.[11] In a preface in the second addition dated January 10, 1896, the author’s son, Thomas R. Barnum wrote: "it is proper to make a brief statement...in regard to the origin of the book. The late Leonard Case, Jr., of Cleveland, Ohio, Founder of the Case School of Applied Science...undertook to make for his friend, Dr. Alleyne Maynard of Cleveland, a rhyming dictionary arranged without regard to spelling, but according to the vowel sounds in the accented syllables of the rhymes. The result of Mr. Case's labor was embodied in a beautiful manuscript volume containing perhaps half of the words in this present Vocabulary...insisting that his own connection with the matter should be carefully concealed. This wish was scrupulously respected while Mr. Case lived, but now it is right to take this opportunity not only to acknowledge his share in the conception and execution of this work, but also to make grateful mention of one of those generous acts with which he quietly filled his life."[12]

Case died at age 59 on January 6, 1880, after a coughing spell in his home on Rockwell Ave in Downtown Cleveland. His funeral was held three days later on January 9, 1880, inside his home, and he was buried in Erie Street Cemetery in Downtown Cleveland. In 1919, his body and those of his family were transferred to Lake View Cemetery in University Circle. The family monument still stands in Erie Street Cemetery.[13]

Endowment

Upon his death in 1880, $1.25 million was set aside for the founding of "The Case School of Applied Science", carried out by his confidential agent, Henry G. Abbey. Case specified the school teach the subjects of mathematics, physics, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, economic geology, mining and metallurgy, natural history, drawing, and modern languages. For any unforeseen needs in the future, Case wrote he would grant permission for adding "other kindred branches of learning".[14]

On March 29, 1880, articles of incorporation were filed for the founding of the

Case School of Applied Science. Classes began on September 15, 1881, first being held in the Case homestead on Rockwell Ave in Downtown Cleveland, before relocating to University Circle in 1885.[15] With the merger with Western Reserve University in 1967, the Case surname remained, honored in the combined institutional naming of Case Western Reserve University
.

Writings

Treasure Trove (1873), illustrations by Sol Eytinge Jr. and engraved by Andrew Varick Stout Anthony[16]

References

  1. ^ "Impact of The Case Bequest". Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
  2. ^ "The Case Tech 11 May 1904 — Case Western Reserve University".
  3. ^ Western Reserve Historical Society: Tract, Issues 73-84. 1892. pp. 228–229. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  4. ^ Martin, C. T. (Deac) (1967). From School to Institute, An Informal Story of Case. The World Publishing Company. p. 7.
  5. ^ "A list of graduates of the Cincinnati Law School, Law Department of the University of Cincinnati from the time of its establishment 1833 to 1904". Cincinnati. 1904.
  6. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7
    .
  7. ^ Martin, C. T. (Deac) (1967). From School to Institute, An Informal Story of Case. The World Publishing Company. p. 8.
  8. ^ Martin, C. T. (Deac) (1967). From School to Institute, An Informal Story of Case. The World Publishing Company. p. 11.
  9. ^ Martin, C. T. (Deac) (1967). From School to Institute, An Informal Story of Case. The World Publishing Company. p. 10.
  10. ^ "The Case Tech 7 February 1906 — Case Western Reserve University".
  11. ^ "The Case Tech 7 March 1906 — Case Western Reserve University".
  12. ^ "A vocabulary of English rhymes arranged on a new plan". New Haven, Conn., T. R. Barnum. 1896.
  13. ^ Martin, C. T. (Deac) (1967). From School to Institute, An Informal Story of Case. The World Publishing Company. p. 13.
  14. ^ Martin, C. T. (Deac) (1967). From School to Institute, An Informal Story of Case. The World Publishing Company. p. 1.
  15. ^ Martin, C. T. (Deac) (1967). From School to Institute, An Informal Story of Case. The World Publishing Company. p. 15.
  16. ^ Treasure Trove. J.R. Osgood. 1873.

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