| Founded in 1890 by oil
magnate John D. Rockefeller, who later
called it "the best investment I
ever made," the University of
Chicago is noted for or its neo-Gothic
architecture and is located seven miles
south of downtown Chicago. It held its
first classes in the Fall of 1892 and was
one of the first universities in the
country to be conceived as a combination
of the American interdisciplinary liberal
arts college and the German research
university. Affiliated with seventy-nine
Nobel Prize laureates and the site of the
world's first man-made self-sustaining
nuclear reaction, it was also home to
Clara H. Shaw, daughter of Ralph M. and
Harriet (Martin). Listed in the 1900
census as a student at the University of
Chicago, Clara was then residing at Green
Hall.
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