U.S. Army. He served as one of the government's dollar a year men, helping upgrade munitions production for the War Department. Seeley W. Mudd died in St. Louis on May 24, 1926. He was an advocate for education and, among other gifts in his will, provided one million dollars for the Claremont College in Pomona, California, where he had been chairman of its board. His sons would follow in his philanthropic footsteps. Legacy The Engineering building at Columbia University was named in his honor, as was the School of Philosophy building at the University of Southern California and the Laboratory of the Geological Sciences ("North Mudd") at the California Institute of Technology. References External links Seeley W. Mudd biography Mudd Family history American mining engineers 1861 births 1926 deaths McKelvey School of Engineering alumni 20th-century engineers 19th-century engineers