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Pages in category "Benefactors of Yale University" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Yale was then under the orders of Capt. Abraham Stanley, his brother-in-law, who had served in the 10th Continental Regiment, part of the Connecticut Line. [6] On August 27, 1777, from Wallingford, Yale's regiment was sent to assist Gen. Enoch Poor's brigade. [10] Yale eventually became a commanding officer, reaching the rank of Captain.
Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Yale lived in America only as a child, and spent the rest of his life in England, Wales, and India. He became a clerk for the East India Company at Fort St. George, later Madras, and eventually rose to the Presidency of the ...
Elihu's house. Elihu Club is housed in a three-story white clapboard house built between 1762 and 1776 at 175 Elm Street. [14] [15] This house is the oldest of all of Yale's secret society buildings, and purportedly one of the oldest original structures in the United States still in regular use.
English merchant, philanthropist and benefactor of the college in 1718, donating gifts worth £800, used to construct building called Yale college. [37] Young Harris College, Georgia, US Young Harris: benefactor Federico Santa María Technical University, Valparaíso, Chile Federico Santa María: Chilean businessman and philanthropist.
Colonel William Kelsey Lanman Jr., (October 9, 1904 – March 26, 2001) was an American philanthropist and benefactor of Yale University. He served as an aviator in the United States Marine Corps from 1935 to 1955, and later took up real estate and investment management.
Official seal used by the college and the university. Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
Edward Stephen Harkness (January 22, 1874 – January 29, 1940) was an American philanthropist.Given privately and through his family's Commonwealth Fund, Harkness' gifts to private hospitals, art museums, and educational institutions in the Northeastern United States were among the largest of the early twentieth century.