generous with his money in Terre Haute, where his philanthropic activities were reported in an 1875 New York Times article to have exceeded $2,000,000 in currency of that day. Among his numerous benefactors were the Providence Hospital, the Free Dispensary and the Rose Orphan Asylum, to whom he endowed enough money to ensure it would remain permanent. He donated to Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN. He donated $73,000 to secure the location of the State Normal School, now Indiana State University in Terre Haute. Rose also contributed enough money to build and endow the Rose Polytechnic Institute (now the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology). The cornerstone for the college was laid on September 11, 1875, but it did not begin operations until March 5, 1883, long after Rose's death. It remains to this day one of the few colleges solely dedicated to science and engineering. Rose organized it as the Terre Haute School of Industrial Sciences with an initial endowment of $500,000, so that “this institution has a productive capital, exclusive of buildings”. Significantly, Rose intended none of the institutions funded or founded by him, save the incorporated name of Rosedale to bear his name. Other name ties resulting from posthumous commemorative changes by his grateful recipients. Rose died in Terre Haute, Indiana on August 13, 1877. His will is published. Bibliography (1877). "A Dead Millionaire." Chicago Daily Tribune. August 22. (1877). "Death of Chauncey Rose." The New York Times. August 14. Logan, Esaray and William Cronin (1922). History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922. Dayton: Dayton Historical Publishing Company. US Writers Program. Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State. New York: Oxford University Press. (1889). "The Rose Polytechnic Institute." Science February 15. (1875). "Benefactions of Mr. Chauncey Rose of Indiana, Upwards of $2,000,000 Given Away in Fifteen Years." The New York Times. October 11. References Rose Rose Rose People from Wethersfield, Connecticut Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology 19th-century American philanthropists