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Biography - Harvard, John
1607–38, chief founder of Harvard College, b. Southwark, England, M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1635. He immigrated in 1637 to Charlestown, Mass., where he was assistant to the pastor and teaching elder of the First Church. He bequeathed £780 (half his estate) and his library of 320 volumes toward the founding of a new college at Cambridge, Mass., which was named in his honor.
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