A college in Cambridge, Mass. was named for this man after he left it half his fortune & a 400-book library
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man who left upon his death half his fortune and entire library to Harvard in 1638, 
... University was named after John Harvard, who donated half of his estate and 
his ... tuberculosis and died, bequeathing 779 and 400 books to the New 
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