George R. Fairbanks Collection

University of the South [No 185?] Certificate No

Isaac Croom of the State of Alabama hereby makes a subscription in favor of the University of the South an institution duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Tennessee of the sum of Twenty Five Thousand Dollars payable to the Treasurer of said University for the Diocese of Alabama or to his order as follows — Upon the terms & conditions subject to the limitations & for the uses & purposes & no other specified & set forth in a certain paper [donation?] presented by said [Donor?] to the Trustees of the University of the South at a meeting held by them in the City of Montgomery Alabama in the month of November [----?] 185[7?] for the purpose of endowing a Professorship of ^Scientific & Practi[-] [-]cal Agriculture in said Institution & which document is now in the keeping of the Treasurer of the Diocese of Alabama & to which reference is hereby specially made.

signed Is. Croom

Dated Greensboro Alabama This 5th day of January 1859