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John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English Puritan minister in Colonial New England whose deathbed [2] 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".
Coat of arms of the Saltonstall family. The Saltonstall family is a Boston Brahmin family from the U.S. state of Massachusetts, notable for having had a family member attend Harvard University from every generation since Nathaniel Saltonstall—later one of the more principled judges at the Salem Witch Trials—graduated in 1659.
The Adams family had an extensive relationship with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The following members of the family attended and graduated from Harvard: John Adams, class of 1755; John Quincy Adams, class of 1788 and faculty member; Charles Adams, class of 1789; Thomas Boylston Adams, class of 1790; George Washington Adams ...
John Harvard is an 1884 sculpture in bronze by Daniel Chester French at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.It honors clergyman John Harvard (1607–1638), whose substantial deathbed [2] bequest to the "schoale or Colledge" recently undertaken by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that the Colony resolved "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to bee built at ...
John Harvard (clergyman) (1607–1638), benefactor of Harvard University SS John Harvard , a EC2-S-C1 standard Liberty ship built in 1942 and named in his honor John Harvard (politician) (1938–2016), journalist, politician and office holder in Manitoba, Canada
The du Pont family (English: / d uː ˈ p ɒ n t /) [1] or Du Pont family is a prominent American family descended from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817), a French minor aristocrat. It has been one of the richest families in the United States since the mid-19th century, when it founded its fortune in the gunpowder business.
Edward Weld (1741–1775) by Pompeo Batoni Cardinal Thomas Weld (1773–1837), by Andrew Geddes. Edward Weld was the third and first surviving son of Humphrey Weld (died 1722) of Lulworth, son of William Weld, and the grandnephew of Humphrey Weld MP, [19] (purchaser in 1641 of the vast Lulworth Estate, who had died without a male heir), and of his wife Margaret Simeons, daughter of Sir James ...
Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator.. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Yale lived in America only as a child, and spent the rest of his life in England, Wales, and India.
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