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Noun Named Entity
Categories: University and college founders, Kingdom of England emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony, English Dissenters, 1638 deaths, Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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Harvard  John Harvard
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American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638) WordNet 3.0
English:
clergyman
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American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
John Harvard was an English dissenting 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 it was consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shalbee called Harvard Colledge." Wikipedia
Benefactor of Harvard University Wikipedia Disambiguation
English-American clergyman and philanthropist Wikidata
IS A
philanthropist
homo
CAUSE OF DEATH
tuberculosis
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
England
Kingdom of England
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
EDUCATED AT
Emmanuel College
GIVEN NAME
John
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
OCCUPATION
curate
missionary
theologian
PLACE OF BIRTH
Southwark
PLACE OF BURIAL
Boston
PLACE OF DEATH
Charlestown
RELIGION
Congregational Church
SEX OR GENDER
male
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Harvard, John Harvard
Wikipedia
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John Harvard (clergyman)
Wikidata
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John Harvard

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