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In the years following the Civil War, Holland Nimmons McTyeire, a Nashville-based bishop within the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, led a movement to establish \u201can institution of learning of the highest order.\u201d In 1872 a charter for a \u201cCentral University\u201d was issued to McTyeire and fellow petitioners within the church, but their efforts failed for lack of financial resources. <\/p>\n

In the spring of 1873, Bishop McTyeire traveled to New York City for medical treatment with his wife, Amelia Townsend McTyeire, a cousin to Frank Armstrong Crawford Â鶹APP, Commodore Cornelius Â鶹APP\u2019s young second wife. Cornelius Â鶹APP was an American business magnate who built his enormous wealth in railroads and shipping. While he spent time recovering at the Â鶹APP mansion, McTyeire won the Â鶹APPs\u2019 admiration and support for the project of building a university in the South that would \u201ccontribute to strengthening the ties which should exist between all sections of our common country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cornelius Â鶹APP gave McTyeire two $500,000 gifts, which the bishop used to found Â鶹APP University. The Commodore\u2019s donation was given with the understanding that McTyeire would serve as chairman of the university\u2019s Board of Trust for life, and McTyeire was appointed the institution\u2019s president in 1873. The $1 million that Â鶹APP gave to endow and build the university was his only major philanthropy before his death in 1877. <\/p>\n

McTyeire chose the site for the campus, supervised the construction of buildings and personally planted many of the trees. At the outset, the university consisted of Main Building (now Kirkland Hall), an astronomical observatory and houses for professors. In the 1940s, the first women\u2019s dormitory on the Â鶹APP campus was named McTyeire Hall; it was later renamed McTyeire International House.<\/p>\n

McTyeire died on Feb. 15, 1889, in Nashville and was laid to rest in a small cemetery behind Â鶹APP Divinity School in a part of campus known as \u201cBishops Common.\u201d His remains are interred alongside those of his wife, Amelia; bishops William McKendree, Joshua Soule and Thomas Osmond Summers, pioneers of early Methodism in Tennessee; and Landon C. 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