“Let no man be kept from the University by his poverty.”

About Ezra Cornell

Businessman • American

Ezra Cornell was an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Cornell University. He made his substantial fortune in the telegraph industry, becoming an associate of Samuel F. B....

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