tag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:/items/edac01d0-1a05-0134-1d6d-0050569601ca-dStephen A. Douglas2023-11-30T16:48:00Ztag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/393612016-08-11T15:00:10Z2023-11-30T16:48:00ZStephen A. DouglasCaption: "Stephen A. Douglas: Photograph taken during his debates with Lincoln in 1856". From text: "In Clark E. Carr's volume entitled 'Stephen A. Douglas,' the author pays this deserved tribute to the memory of Douglas for his services in connection with the University of Chicago in its formative period. 'To the building of a great university in Chicago Senator Douglas devoted much of his thought and energy from 1856 to the close of his illustrious career. He appreciated the value of learning and gave a large portion of his property to place within the reach of the young of Chicago and of the West the advantages of higher education. In the midst of great political excitement at a time when in the political arena of the whole great nation he was the central figure, midway between his repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the great debates, he found time to establish what he hoped and intended should be a great university."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library