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Definition of Ezra cornell
1. Noun. United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ezra Cornell
Literary usage of Ezra cornell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"ezra cornell solves a difficult problem. — Cornell's plan for insulation endorsed
by Professor Henry. — Many discouragements. ..."
2. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"ezra cornell solves a difficult problem. — Cornell's plan for insulation endorsed
by Professor Henry. — Many discouragements. ..."
3. Reminiscences by Goldwin Smith (1910)
"CHAPTER XXI CORNELL 1868-1871 Resignation of Oxford Professorship — Invitation
to Cornell — ezra cornell — The University — Cornell's Ideas — Arrival at ..."
4. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"ezra cornell and those early enthusiasts reaped substantial profit from the perfected
... As fortunes were rated then, ezra cornell was a rich man by 1860, ..."
5. Putnam's Monthly (1907)
"ezra cornell (1807-1874) AN APPRECIATION Na certain sense the founder of Cornell
University was a typical American, as the fusion of his salient and ..."
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