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Died. Augustus Hemenway, 77, one-time (1890-91) member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Harvard overseer and donor of Harvard's Hemenway gymnasium; in Readville, Mass...
...Saturday afternoon a Cambridge policeman discovered a raccoon sitting on the top of a tree in the Yard. Somewhat disturbed by the crowd which soon collected under his perch, the raccoon removed itself in haste to the top of the Hemenway gymnasium, where for a time it appeared quite safe...
...President and Fellows of Harvard University are to receive the sum of $70,000 to be used for the benefit of the Peabody Museum according to the will of the late Augustus Hemenway '79 which was filed for probate at Dedham yesterday...
...bequest climaxes a series of gifts to the University from the donor who served at one time on the Board of Overseers. The most outstanding of these was the Hemenway gymnasium which was presented to the University in 1879 and enlarged at the double expense...
...Hemenway, whose gifts included a high school and library building furnished to the town of Canton, served the University as an Overseer. He was a trustee of several large estates, served on the Metropolitan Park Commission which created the Revere Beach Reservation, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for two years...