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Elihu YALE

Yale College
American Scenery,
by N.P. Willis, Illustrated by William Henry Bartlett, 1840

According to the early histories of Yale, a group of ten ministers led by the Reverend James Pierpont of New Haven met in nearby Branford in 1700 to found a college...

In 1718, when wealthy London merchant Elihu Yale—step grandson of Theophilus Eaton, co-founder of the New Haven colony—donated over 400 books, a portrait of King George I, and cloth goods that sold for 562 pounds, the college was named Yale College...
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Phelps Hall, 1898

Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.

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Temple Street, 1898

Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.