A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. John Shedd (July 20, 1850 – October 22, 1926)
One of Chicago’s major philanthropists, he contributed extensively to Chicago charities, universities and museums, and in the early 1920s he provided $3 million to build Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, as a complement to The Field Museum (founded in 1892 as a part of the World’s Columbian Exposition and renamed in honor of Marshall Field in 1905) and The Art Institute of Chicago (whose current building was also a product of the 1892 World’s Columbian Exposition). Completed in 1930, the Shedd Aquarium remained the world’s largest aquarium for most of the century. 
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Stories and Quotes from the Mind* and Keyboard of A.A.Forringer 
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