Silas Weir Mitchell

The man to whose memory this library building is dedicated was, in one respect, an exceedingly liberal person. Most men who accumulate large fortunes wait until middle life before they begin to be generous. He on the other hand, from the time he made more than his living expenses, began to give with increasing liberality as circumstances enabled him to enlarge his gifts.

-S. Weir Mitchell on Morris K. Jesup in his 1911 dedication speech