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...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...
Some facts, however, have geen gathered. We now know the name and occupation of his father, the parentage, name, and marriages of his mother, the place and date of his baptism, something of his education, his marriage, his emigration to America, his short ministry in Charlestown, his bequest to the infant College, and his early death. Of his brothers and sisters we know the names, and the dates of their deaths. From these a few other matters may safely be inferred; his Puritanism, for example, his feeble health, his interest in learning. Still other matters are conjectured by the author...
Haydn--My mother bids me bind my hair...
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...
...whether existing records will yield any further information about the Founder. Should others, however, be emboldened to pursue the subject, they will be able to start with certain lines of inquiry that Mr. Waters's researches have opened. The identity of Harvard's father, Robert Harvard, and of his mother, Katherine Rogers, has been established, and his mother has been traced to Stratford. The house of Alderman Rogers, a colleague of Shakespeare's father in the local government, has been found, and as the early home of John Harvard's mother, is hereafter to be known as the Harvard House...