Word: 85th
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Samuel James Bridge, who presented to Cambridge the statue of John Bridge, which stands in the common, and to the University the statue of John Harvard, died Monday evening after a brief illness, at the Norfolk House, Roxbury, in his 85th year. Gen. Bridge was a direct descendant of John Bridge, the supervisor of the first public school in the colony which was afterward called Cambridge, and the leading spirit in the establishment of Harvard University in pursuance of the requests and bequests of John Harvard...