John Harvard

Pastor, Organization founder

1607 – 1638

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Who was John Harvard?

John Harvard was an English minister in America, "a godly gentleman and a lover of learning", whose deathbed 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 upon formerly to bee built at Cambridg shalbee called Harvard Colledge."

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Born
Nov 26, 1607
Southwark
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Emmanuel College, Cambridge
  • University of Cambridge
Lived in
  • Massachusetts
  • London
Died
Sep 14, 1638
Charlestown, Boston

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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