Henry Clay Folger Jr. (June 18, 1857 – June 11, 1930) was an American businessman who was president and later chairman of Standard Oil of New York, a collector of Shakespeareana, and …

Inspired by a speech of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s that he heard while a student at Amherst College, Henry Folger made it his life’s mission to collect Shakespeare’s plays and poems, the …

Henry Clay Folger (June 18, 1857-June 11, 1930) was born in New York City to Henry Clay Folger, Sr., and Eliza Jane Clark Folger. Through his ancestor Peter Foulger, who settled in …

Aug 25, 2016 · In 1849 three Folger brothers left Nantucket for the gold fields of northern California. By April of 1850 Edward Folger, age 20, Henry Folger, age 16 and James Folger, …

Henry Clay Folger (born June 18, 1857, New York, NewYork, U.S.—died June 11, 1930, Brooklyn, NewYork) was an American lawyer and business executive who is chiefly …

What would Henry Folger say today, knowing that his reinvented library has flung open to the world the doors to his treasures?

Mar 2, 2023 · Henry Clay Folger (June 18, 1857 – June 11, 1930) was president and later chairman of Standard Oil of New York, a collector of Shakespeareana, and founder of the …

May 14, 2015 · Henry Folger once spent nearly a year's salary on a William Shakespeare first folio. In The Millionaire and the Bard, Andrea Mays chronicles his obsession with collecting the...

Henry Clay Folger and his wife, Emily Jordan Folger, established the Folger Shakespeare Library as a gift to the American people, after decades of assembling the world’s largest collection of …

FOLGER, Henry Clay 1857-1930 PERSONAL: Born June 18, 1857, in New York , NY; died June 11, 1930, in Brooklyn, NY; son of Henry Clay (a wholesale milliner) and Eliza Jane (Clark) …