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WEST, Charles W., merchant, born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, 7 August, 1810; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 21 September, 1884. He received a common-school education, worked on a farm till he was twenty-one years old, was a clerk in a mill at Rochester, New York, for four years, and then was engaged in milling at Columbia, Pennsylvania, for a year or two. He returned to Rochester, went to the west, and in 1841 established himself in Cincinnati, where he achieved commercial success. In September, 1880, he offered to contribute $150,000 toward the erection of an art museum building, provided that an equal amount was raised by subscription, and on the condition being fulfilled he gave twice as much as he had promised. The building was begun in September, 1882, and completed before the close of 1885.
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