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John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English dissenting minister in colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it was consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shalbee called ...
11. März 2024 · John Harvard (born November 1607, London, Eng.—died Sept. 14, 1638, Charlestown [part of Boston], Mass. [U.S.]) was a New England colonist whose bequest permitted the firm establishment of Harvard College. John Harvard was the son of a butcher and of the daughter of a cattle merchant and alderman of Stratford-on-Avon.
On March 13, 1639, the college was renamed Harvard College after clergyman John Harvard, a University of Cambridge alumnus who had willed the new school £779 pounds sterling and his library of some 400 books. In the 1640s, Harvard College established the Harvard Indian College, which educated Native American students. It was only attended by a ...
John Harvard is a sculpture in bronze by Daniel Chester French in Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, honoring clergyman John Harvard (1607–1638), whose deathbed [2] bequest to the "schoale or Colledge" recently undertaken by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it was consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed ...
17. Mai 2018 · Encyclopedia of World Biography. John Harvard >Little is known about the short life of John Harvard (1607-1638). Yet his >legacy has continued down through the centuries as the principal benefactor >of Harvard University [1], arguably one of the world's most highly respected >centers of learning.
By Andrew Glass. 09/14/2016 12:00 AM EDT. On this day in 1638, John Harvard, a 31-year-old clergyman from Charlestown, Massachusetts, died, leaving his library and half of his estate to a...
1. Jan. 2000 · Only a little more than a year elapsed between the summer of 1637, when the Harvards arrived in Massachusetts, and September 14, 1638, when John died of consumption. During this period he became a valued resident of Charlestown, where he was called to be the church's "teacher," one of its two clergymen. In Harvard, Charlestown had a passionate ...
