Word: shattuck
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...Corporation would enlist the help of 10 benefactors to purchase the two-thirds of Harvard Hill that had not been donated by Shattuck. This cost came...
There are several plausible reasons why Shattuck, whose wealth derived from his wife’s sugar and trading fortune, gave the land to Harvard...
...only know it happened,” says Douglas Marshall, who is writing a biography of Shattuck’s son. Marshall says Shattuck had also donated money to construct Harvard’s observatory and to rebuild an Ursuline convent after it was destroyed in an anti-Catholic riot...
According to Janet L. Heywood, vice president of interpretative programs at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Shattuck was a “good friend” of Jacob Bigelow, Class of 1806, who was a major player in the design and establishment of the cemetery and a Harvard science professor...
It’s possible the proponents of the cemetery, like Bigelow, were acting through Shattuck to try to ensure that Harvard students and faculty would be buried there...