Edward Rector papers

Collection

Identifier: MSD-0000-053

Staff Only

Collection Statement

This collection contains clippings, tributes, letters, Rector Hall program, and a copy of Edward Rector's Will, June 26, 1925. Also included is a biographical sketch from Who's Who in America. A scrapbook existed, but all of its contents had become loose from its pages when the rubber cement dried out. These items from the scrapbook form a separate series.

Dates

1861 - 2018

Creator

Rector, Edward (Person)

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Usage Restrictions

Biographical Sketch

Edward Rector was born at Bedford, Indiana, on July 7, 1863, the son of Isaac and Juliet Rector. His early education was received in the public school there. His scholarship was of the finest; for he was graduated from high school at the age of fifteen, that which had been done by no other student. In 1885, having received his bachelor of laws degree form the University of Cincinnati law school, he was admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1892. He soon became a member of the American, Illinois, and Chicago bar associations. In politics he was a Republican; in religion, a Methodist, which was partially responsible for his great interest in DePauw University. The Edward Rector Scholarship Foundation was founded in 1919 which provided for tuition at DePauw and a fund for which four hundred men from Indiana high school may borrow.