the financing of a concert series in Old Cabell Hall, the gift of a rare books collection to the library, and nearly 500 works of art to the University of Virginia Art Museum. He also financed a set of four public sculptures, George Rogers Clark, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Robert Edward Lee, and Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, through the National Sculpture Society. McIntire was a recipient of the French Legion of Honor in 1929 for his founding of a children's tuberculosis hospital in France for refugees from the German-occupied north. References External links Biography Timeline 1860 births 1952 deaths Businesspeople from Charlottesville, Virginia University of Virginia alumni American financial businesspeople American philanthropists Recipients of the Legion of Honour