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 ...

John Harvard (born November 1607, London, Eng.—died Sept. 14, 1638, Charlestown [part of Boston], Mass. [U.S.]) was a New England colonist whose bequest permitted the firm establishment of Harvard College.

Nov 1, 2007 · The traditional story goes that just one volume from John Harvard’s collection at that time was checked out — and overdue — and so it survived. That book was the fourth edition of “The Christian Warfare Against the Devil World and Flesh” by John Downame, published in …

Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison remarks that it must have been the source of some amusement for John to consider that, after all his university training, he would derive much of his new income in America from butchering cows, in essence continuing in part his father Robert's occupation (Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard ...

May 17, 2018 · John Harvard. Little is known about the short life of John Harvard (1607-1638). Yet his legacy has continued down through the centuries as the principal benefactor of Harvard University, arguably one of the world's most highly respected centers of learning.

Sep 14, 2016 · On this day in 1638, John Harvard, a 31-year-old clergyman from Charlestown, Massachusetts, died, leaving his library and half of his estate to a local college.

John Harvard (1607-1638) was an English clergyman who settled in the American colonies, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1637. Upon his death in 1638, Harvard left half of his estate and personal library to the newly founded college which later became Harvard University.