to operate with funds from the J. S. Mack Foundation. A devout Presbyterian who decorated the main assembly room of the Murphy Company with Bible verses, Mack first met Bob Jones, Sr., founder of Bob Jones College (now Bob Jones University) while serving on the organizing committee for a 1927 revival campaign in McKeesport. Mack was impressed with Jones and told him that he planned to put his “shoulder to the wheel and help you in a big way." Shortly before his death, Mack went so far as to tell Jones to "construct your buildings and send me the bill." Bob Jones College awarded Mack an honorary degree and named the library in his honor. A women's residence hall in Greenville, South Carolina is named for his wife. Although Mack was only 60 in 1940, his health gave way, and he died after a stroke on September 27. Four colleges sent their choirs, and Bob Jones preached the funeral. Notes References Jason Togyer, For the Love of Murphy's: The Behind-the-Counter Story of a Great American Retailer (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008) Who Was Who in America, 1 (1897–1942). "Death Takes Business Man Back to Childhood Scenes," Pittsburgh Press, September 20, 1940. "Murphy Memories" BJU Library Pittsburgh Tribune feature article on Brush Valley 1880 births 1940 deaths American Presbyterians American businesspeople in retailing People from Indiana County, Pennsylvania 20th-century American philanthropists