1. Charles Macalester was an American businessman, banker and philanthropist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
15 Facts About Charles Macalester
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Charles Macalester served as a government director for the Second Bank of the United States and an advisor and friend to several US presidents.
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Charles Macalester bequested a former hotel property to a failing Presbyterian secondary school in Minneapolis, Minnesota that became Macalester College and was named in his honor.
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Charles Macalester's father was a ship-master who sailed often to the East Indies and Europe.
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Charles Macalester retired as a merchant in 1849, but continued buying and selling securities and real estate.
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Charles Macalester made real estate investments, especially in Chicago, and was one of the wealthiest people in the United States.
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Charles Macalester was an advisor and friend to several US Presidents including James Buchanan, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Pierce, James K Polk and Martin Van Buren.
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Charles Macalester was offered a cabinet post several times but never accepted.
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In 1850, Charles Macalester purchased 84 acres of land in the Torresdale neighborhood of Philadelphia and built a grand country estate that he named Glengarry.
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Charles Macalester was a trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital of Philadelphia, the Jefferson Medical College and the Peabody Southern Education Fund.
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Charles Macalester served as president of the St Andrew's Society.
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Charles Macalester was first married in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1824 to Eliza A Lyttle and together they had two children.
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Charles Macalester was married again in 1841 to Susan Wallace.
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Charles Macalester died at his Glengarry estate in the Torresdale neighborhood of Philadelphia on December 9,1873.
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Charles Macalester was interred in a mausoleum at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, in Section 10, Lot 45.