Leonard Case, Jr

Leonard Case, Jr.

A philanthropist who endowed the Case School of Applied Science[1] (later Case Institute of Technology, later merged with Western Reserve University to become Case Western Reserve University). A major asset in his estate was a stunning gift of $1.25 million in the form a real estate trust to found a school of applied science, the first such institution in the region.

He graduated from Yale University in 1842. Though he was ill for all his life, he was devoted to academic affairs.

Leonard never married. His father was also named Leonard and he had a brother named William Case.

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