However, McTyeire convinced him to donate $500,000 to endow Central University in order to "contribute to strengthening the ties which should exist between all sections of our common country". Cornelius Vanderbilt, the wealthiest man in the United States at the time, had been planning to establish a university on Staten Island, New York, in honor of his mother. The following year, McTyeire stayed at the New York City residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose second wife was Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt (1839–1885), a cousin of McTyeire's wife, Amelia Townsend McTyeire (1827–1891) both women were from Mobile, Alabama. However, lack of funds and the ravaged state of the Reconstruction Era South delayed the opening of the college. Following lobbying by Nashville bishop Holland Nimmons McTyeire, church leaders voted to found "The Central University of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South" in Nashville in 1872.
In the years before the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the Methodist Episcopal Church South had been considering the creation of a regional university for the training of ministers in a location central to its congregations. ĭrawing of Vanderbilt University's Main Campus from Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography (1889)
Vanderbilt has more than 145,000 alumni, with 40 alumni clubs established worldwide. Other notable alumni include three Pulitzer Prize winners, 27 Rhodes Scholars, two Academy Award winners, one Grammy Award winner, six MacArthur Fellows, four foreign heads of state, and five Olympic medallists.
Ambassadors, 13 governors, eleven billionaires, seven Nobel Prize laureates, two Vice Presidents of the United States, and two U.S. Vanderbilt alumni, faculty, and staff have included 54 current and former members of the United States Congress, 18 U.S. Vanderbilt is a founding member of the Southeastern Conference and has been the conference's only private school for a half-century. The Fugitives and Southern Agrarians were based at the university in the first half of the 20th century and helped revive Southern literature among others. With the exception of the off-campus observatory, all of the university's facilities are situated on its 330-acre (1.3 km 2) campus in the heart of Nashville, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from downtown. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, formerly part of the university, became a separate institution in 2016. Several research centers and institutes are affiliated with the university, including the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, and Dyer Observatory. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Vanderbilt enrolls approximately 13,500 students from the US and over 100 foreign countries. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million endowment Vanderbilt hoped that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War. Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.
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