04-28-2005, 08:06 PM
Indian connection to Yale University
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->YALE, Elihu, philanthropist, born in or near Boston, Massachusetts, 5 April, 1649; died in England, 8 July, 1721. His father, David, came to New Haven from England in 1638, but returned in 1651, and was followed in 1652 by his family, including Elihu, who never revisited this country. <b>The son went to the East Indies about 1678, and in 1687-'92 was governor of Fort St. George, Madras. Gov. Yale acquired great wealth in India.</b> On 22 May, 1711, Jeremiah Dummer wrote from London to Governor John Pierpont, then a trustee of the Collegiate school of Connecticut:
<i>" Here is Mr. Yale, formerly governor of Fort George in the Indies, who has got a prodigious estate, and, having no son, now sends for a relation of his from Connecticut to make him his heir. He told me lately that he intended to bestow a charity upon some college in Oxford under certain restrictions which he mentioned. But I think he should much rather do it to your college, seeing he is a New England and, I think, a Connecticut man. If, therefore, when his kinsman comes over, you will write him a proper letter on that subject, I will take care to press it home." </i>
The result was that between 1714 and 1721 Governor Yale gave to the Collegiate school books and money whose total value was estimated at £800. The timeliness of these gifts, rather than their intrinsic value, made them a great aid to the struggling college, and in 1718, after its removal from Saybrook to New Haven, its trustees named the new collegiate building in the latter place Yale college
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->YALE, Elihu, philanthropist, born in or near Boston, Massachusetts, 5 April, 1649; died in England, 8 July, 1721. His father, David, came to New Haven from England in 1638, but returned in 1651, and was followed in 1652 by his family, including Elihu, who never revisited this country. <b>The son went to the East Indies about 1678, and in 1687-'92 was governor of Fort St. George, Madras. Gov. Yale acquired great wealth in India.</b> On 22 May, 1711, Jeremiah Dummer wrote from London to Governor John Pierpont, then a trustee of the Collegiate school of Connecticut:
<i>" Here is Mr. Yale, formerly governor of Fort George in the Indies, who has got a prodigious estate, and, having no son, now sends for a relation of his from Connecticut to make him his heir. He told me lately that he intended to bestow a charity upon some college in Oxford under certain restrictions which he mentioned. But I think he should much rather do it to your college, seeing he is a New England and, I think, a Connecticut man. If, therefore, when his kinsman comes over, you will write him a proper letter on that subject, I will take care to press it home." </i>
The result was that between 1714 and 1721 Governor Yale gave to the Collegiate school books and money whose total value was estimated at £800. The timeliness of these gifts, rather than their intrinsic value, made them a great aid to the struggling college, and in 1718, after its removal from Saybrook to New Haven, its trustees named the new collegiate building in the latter place Yale college
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