At his death his property was worth about £1,500, one half of which he left for the erection of the college that bears his name. A part of this bequest is said to have been diverted from its original purpose. He also left to the college a library of 320 volumes, which indicated the taste of a scholar. The alumni erected a granite monument to his memory in the burial ground of Charlestown, which was dedicated with an address by Edward Everett, 26 September, 1828. A memorial statue of Harvard, the gift of Samuel James Bridge to the university, was unveiled, 15 October, 1884, with an address by Rev.  George Edward Ellis (Cambridge, 1884). 

The illustration represents the first Harvard hall, which was burned, and was replaced by the present structure in 1766.  -- Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, by Louis K. - Upper St. Clair High School, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM

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