Word: avon
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During the summer a petition was addressed to His Majesty, King Edward VII, in the name of the President and Fellows of Harvard University, asking him for a license to acquire in mortmain the house in Stratford-on-Avon in which Katherine Rogers, the mother of John Harvard lived. His Majesty was pleased to grant his license to Miss Marie Corelli, the former owner of the property, to convey it to a Board of Trustees. Copies of the documents pertaining to the matter, including the deed of trust, were duly laid before the Corporation, whereupon the following votes were passed...
...indebted for our knowledge of John Harvard's parentage mainly to Mr. Henry Watters. Thomas Rogers, father of Katherine, John Harvard's mother, a well-to-do marketman, and later alderman and may or, brought up his children side by side with the Shakespeare children of Stratford-on-Avon, where both families lived. In one of Thomas Rogers' numerous trips to London, he prob- ably met Robert Harvard, the father of John Harvard, also a marketman. In 1605 Robert Harvard, of Southwark, married Katherine Rogers, and in November, 1607, occurred John Harvard's birth. As a child he must have...
Next in general interest will probably stand Miss Marie Corelli's narrative of the rescue from maltreatment and ruin of "Harvard House" at Stratford-on-Avon, the home of John Harvard's mother. Miss Corelli was largely instrumental in the purchase of the house by Mr. Morris, who has recently presented it to the University; and she tells her story with much fervor...
Murray, J F, Jr, 9 Avon...
Lewis, J R, 15 Avon street...