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Mccormick (VANCE CRISWELL American)

VANCE CRISWELL, American newspaper publisher; born in Harrisburg, Pa., in 1872. He graduated from Yale, then became publisher of the "Patriot" and the "Evening News" of his native city. He was mayor of the city in 1902-1905 and Democratic candidate for governor of the State in 1914. In 1916 he was chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee. In 1917 he was chairman of the War Trade Board, and was a member of the U. S. War Mission to Great Britain and France.

MCCORMICK THEOLOGICAL SEMI- NARY, a Presbyterian divinity school located at Chicago, Ill. Cyrus H. McCormick endowed the school in 1859 and gave it its present location, and the Seminary assumed its present name in 1886 after the death of McCormick. In 1905 Mrs. McCormick and her sons further increased the endowment by a million dollars. The Seminary has 13 buildings, among which is a library with upward of 40,000 volumes. These are valued, todollars, and the endowment fund has with the grounds, at million now reached two millions. The Seminary charges no fees for tuition or lodging.