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In 1822, Tulane established Paul Tulane and Co. in New
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Paul Tulane was educated in private schools, including
Somerville Academy in New Jersey, until the age of fifteen. He then worked briefly in a store in Princeton. From 1818, he spent three years traveling the southern United States with his older brother Louis Stephen Tulane and his first cousin Paul
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In 1882, he donated $ 363,000 (1882 value) to improve higher education in the city of New
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