Paul Goodloe McIntire

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Paul Goodloe McIntire
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
DiedJuly 1, 1952(1952-07-01) (aged 92) [1]
New York
Resting placeMaplewood Cemetery, Charlottesville, Virginia
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Virginia
OccupationInvestment banker
Known forCharlottesville-area philanthropy
Spouse(s)Edith Clark (1891-unknown)
Anna Dearing Rhodes (1921-1933)
Hilda Berkel Hall (1934-1952)
ChildrenCharlotte Virginia McIntire (1901-1963)

Paul Goodloe McIntire (1860–1952) was an American stockbroker, investor, and philanthropist from

Chicago and New York Stock Exchanges. He was a generous donor to the University of Virginia and its home, the city of Charlottesville.[2]

Early life

Paul Goodloe McIntire was born in 1860 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia for one session, 1878–1879, and then left "since I had to make a living."[3]

Career

McIntire started his career as a coffee trader in Chicago, purchasing a seat on the

Charlottesville
in 1918.

Philanthropy

McIntire was a generous philanthropist. Virginia historian Virginius Dabney notes that he gave nearly $750,000 to the University of Virginia in named gifts, in addition to gifts to the city of Charlottesville and other anonymous donations, and that by 1942 he had given away so much of his fortune that he "was struggling to live within his annuity of $6,000."[3] He is best remembered for his $200,000 gift establishing a school of commerce and economics, today the McIntire School of Commerce, in 1921.[4]

One of McIntire's most notable contributions to UVa was the endowment of the chair of Fine Arts, with the explicit goal of enriching the Charlottesville cultural experience. While a professorship of fine arts had been part of Jefferson's original plan for the University, no provision was made for a faculty of Fine Arts until McIntire's 1919 gift of $155,000 endowed the chair. He wrote to then-President Edwin Alderman that he hoped that "the University will see its way clear to offer many lectures upon the subject of art and music, so that the people will appreciate more than ever before that the University belongs to them; and that it exists for them."[5] The McIntire Department of Music and the McIntire Department of Art were subsequently named in recognition of his gift.

Another of McIntire's contributions to the University was the

Robert Edward Lee, and Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, through the National Sculpture Society.[9]
All four of these sculptures were removed in July 2021.

McIntire was a recipient of the French

Legion of Honor
in 1929 for his founding of a children's tuberculosis hospital in France for refugees from the German-occupied north. [10]

References

  1. ^ "Paul Goodloe McIntire (1860-1952) - Find a Grave..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  2. ^ Keller, Stowe. "Paul Goodloe McIntire". City of Charlottesville. City of Charlottesville, Va. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-8139-0904-X.[permanent dead link
    ]
  4. ^ Dabney, 63-64.
  5. Macmillan
    . p. 152.
  6. ^ "Seventh American Greek Theatre" (PDF). The New York Times. 1921-01-23. p. 49. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  7. ^ Bruce, V:314.
  8. ^ Dabney, 72-73, 122-123.
  9. ^ Four Monumental Figurative Outdoor Sculptures in Charlottesville MPS
  10. ^ "U.Va. Scholar and Educator Awarded France's Highest Honor in Ceremony at Carr's Hill". UVAToday. Retrieved 28 August 2017.

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