Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Harvard, John

HARVARD, JOHN, an American clergyman; born in England in 1607. He was graduated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, and came to the United States in 1637. He was made a citizen of Massachusetts and given a tract of land in Charlestown, where he began preaching as a Congregational minister, and in his will bequeathed $3,750 and 320 volumes from his library for the establishment of a college. A granite monument was erected over his remains in Charlestown in 1828, and a memorial statue on the Delta at Harvard University was unveiled in 1884. See Harvard University.