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Gates, G. M., 97 Avon Hill...
...director of the Cambridge Trust Company and president of the Avon Home for Children. He belonged to the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Union Club of Boston, and the Oakley Country Club...
...Shakespeare belongs, through a parallel branch, to the family from which the bard of Avon came. He is secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, editor of The Baptist Times and Freeman, an organizer and preacher of power. His activities are not confined to Great Britain, but extend to this country and to the continent of Europe, especially to Russia and the Balkan States. One of his great interests in the formation in Great Britain of a United Free Church, including the non-sacerdotal and involving such co-operation as shall do away with competition and waste...
During the summer a petition was addressed to His Majesty, King Edward VII, in the name of the President and Fellows of Harvard University, asking him for a license to acquire in mortmain the house in Stratford-on-Avon in which Katherine Rogers, the mother of John Harvard lived. His Majesty was pleased to grant his license to Miss Marie Corelli, the former owner of the property, to convey it to a Board of Trustees. Copies of the documents pertaining to the matter, including the deed of trust, were duly laid before the Corporation, whereupon the following votes were passed...
...indebted for our knowledge of John Harvard's parentage mainly to Mr. Henry Watters. Thomas Rogers, father of Katherine, John Harvard's mother, a well-to-do marketman, and later alderman and may or, brought up his children side by side with the Shakespeare children of Stratford-on-Avon, where both families lived. In one of Thomas Rogers' numerous trips to London, he prob- ably met Robert Harvard, the father of John Harvard, also a marketman. In 1605 Robert Harvard, of Southwark, married Katherine Rogers, and in November, 1607, occurred John Harvard's birth. As a child he must have...