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...Shattuck proposes to present to this University for a place of burial for such officers and students of the College as may decease there and whose friends are pleased to deposit their remains at that place,” wrote Charles P. Curtis, Shattuck’s lawyer, in an April 5, 1833 letter to University President Josiah Quincy, Class...
That same day, at a special meeting attended by Quincy, the Harvard Corporation accepted the gift and instructed Quincy to “address a letter to [Shattuck], expressive of their grateful sense of this donation...
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...