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Harvard House in Stratford-upon-Avon was the childhood home of John Harvard's mother Katherine Rogers. Harvard was born and raised in Southwark, Surrey, England, (now part of London), the fourth of nine children of Robert Harvard (1562–1625), a butcher and tavern owner, and his wife Katherine Rogers (1584–1635), a native of Stratford-upon-Avon.
Leverett and Brattle managed Harvard College while Harvard's President Increase Mather was in England for four years (1688–1692) On November 25, 1697, Leverett married Margaret Rogers Berry, the daughter of former Harvard College president John Rogers. They had nine children, six of whom died in infancy. Margaret died on June 7, 1720.
Paternity unconfirmed as of 2024. Abolitionist Joshua Leavitt reported the information about John Tyler and Charles Tyler. The claim that Tyler had fathered multiple children with slaves was largely ignored by 19th-century historians. In addition to the Dunjees, the Brown family of Charles City County claims descent from Tyler by an enslaved ...
Increase Mather (/ ˈ m æ ð ər /; June 21, 1639 Old Style [1] – August 23, 1723 Old Style) was a New England Puritan clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and president of Harvard College for twenty years (1681–1701). [2]
Lionel de Jersey Harvard (3 June 1893 – 30 March 1918) was a young Englishman who, discovered to be collaterally descended from Harvard College founder John Harvard, was consequently offered the opportunity to attend that university, from which he graduated in 1915.
John Edward Mack (October 4, 1929 – September 27, 2004) was an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor of psychiatry. He served as the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 2004. In 1977, Mack won the Pulitzer Prize for his book A Prince of Our Disorder on T. E. Lawrence. [1]
Shortly after Rain’s birth, Arlyn and John joined the religious cult Children of God. Joaquin was later born in 1974 in Puerto Rico, followed by his sister, Liberty, two years later in Venezuela.
John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg [1] was born in New York City on January 19, 1993. [2] Known as “Jack”, he is the youngest of three children of designer and artist Edwin Schlossberg and author and diplomat Caroline Kennedy.