Person:John Harvard (1)

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John Harvard
b.26 Nov 1607
d.14 Sep 1638
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m. 8 Apr 1605
  1. John Harvard1607 - 1638
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  • H.  John Harvard1607 - 1638
  • W.  Ann Sadler1614 - 1655
m. 19 Apr 1636
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Name John Harvard
Gender Male
Birth[1] 26 Nov 1607
Marriage 19 Apr 1636 to Ann Sadler
Baptism[1] Southwark Cathedral, Southwark, London, England
Death[1] 14 Sep 1638
Burial[1] Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number? Q318328?


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John Harvard (16071638) was an English dissenting minister in Colonial America whose deathbed bequest to the

founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it was consequently ordered "that the

agreed upon formerly to

built at

called ." Harvard University considers him the most honored of its founders—those whose efforts and contributions in its early days "ensure[d] its permanence"—and a statue in his honor is a prominent feature of Harvard Yard.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 John Harvard (clergyman), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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