A college in Cambridge, Mass. was named for this man after he left it half his fortune & a 400-book library
If you want to see this small but important building, turn left after... [DOC] [TLE] College endowments: Yard sale - The Economist [PAR] Mar 26, 2016 ... ON his deathbed in 1638, John Harvard bequeathed half of his estate, about 
800 and his library of some 400 books to a new college in ... Princeton was sued 
by the heirs of the A&P grocery fortune who ... After 25 years its endowment 
would be 60% smaller than it is now.