John Harvard, English-American minister and philanthropist (born 1607)

John Harvard

English clergyman and philanthropist (1607–1638)

John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English Puritan minister in colonial New England whose deathbed 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…