HARVARD, JOHN

(1607-1638), the founder of Harvard University, 6. in England. After graduating from Cambridge University, in 1635, he emigrated to Ma achusetts, of which colony he was made a freeman in 1837. Little is known of his private life, and in the records of the colony a few scraps here and there only indicate public activity, such as the statement that he was one of a commi ion ‘to consider of some things tending toward a body of laws. At his death his property was valued at £1,600, one half of which he gave to the “schoale or colledge’ which had been - established in 1836 but which hitherto had languished on account of lack:of funds, and was henceforward called Harvard College, and later Harvard University. He also bequeathed a library of 300 volumes to the institution. A monument was erected to his memory in Charles town cemetery by the alumni of Harvard College, in 1828, Edward Everett making the official addre at the unveiling.