Washington Duke (1820–1905), seated, served
in the Confederacy against his will, and once
bought a slave so he could free him. He used his
influence to move Trinity College to Durham,
N.C., and gave the college $100,000 on the
condition it would admit women. Trinity College
was renamed Duke University in honor of Duke in 1924, the same
year his son, James, president of the American Tobacco Co., further
endowed Duke to create a southern university to rival the northeast
established schools.
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