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The von KleinSmid Mansion was built for the von KleinSmid family of the
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city of
Sandwich, Illinois Sandwich is a city in DeKalb and Kendall counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. Its population was 7,421 at the 2010 census and 7,221 at the 2020 census. History The town's history is tied to politician "Long John" Wentworth and his efforts t ...
in the mid-nineteenth century. It was added to the
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in 1985. The building is located on Sandwich's West Center Street, and is under private ownership. It was the childhood home of
Rufus B. von KleinSmid Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid (1875 – July 9, 1964), also spelled Kleinsmidt, was the seventh president of the University of Arizona (1914–1921) and the fifth president of the University of Southern California (1921–1947). Life and career ...
, former President and Chancellor of the
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, and a passionate supporter of eugenics.Rufus von KleinSmid, 1913, "Eugenics and the State," p. 2, https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/1150/von%20KleinSmit_%20Eugenics%20and%20the%20State.pdf


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