A Sizeable Investment

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After twelve years on the second floor of 215 South Fourth Street, the college once again outgrew its space. Toby spent forty thousand dollars, the equivalent of about one million dollars today, to construct a new brick building for the school on the corner of Fourth Street and Webster Avenue.

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By Maria Petrolia
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the rise of railroads and industrialization caused significant changes in the business world. The growth of corporations and big businesses led to…