John Harvard (clergyman)
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title:
John Harvard (clergyman)
text:
John Harvard was an English Puritan 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 the colony consequently ordered "that the Colledge
agreed upon formerly to be
built at Cambridge shalbee
called Harvard
Colledge". Harvard was born in Southwark, England, and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
In 1637 he emigrated to the Massachusetts
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English clergyman and philanthropist (1607–1638)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvard_(clergyman)
date created:
2003-03-19T21:39:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T16:51:56Z
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