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    Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator and philanthropist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Yale only lived...
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    Elihu Club or Elihu is the fourth oldest senior society at Yale University, New Haven, CT. It was founded in 1903 and takes its name from Elihu Yale. The...
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    Captain Elihu Yale (1747 – 1806) was an American military commanding officer, and one of the first manufacturers of bayonets in Connecticut. He served...
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  • endowment was established at Yale University, then Yale College, in 1718 from an initial fund of £562 provided by Elihu Yale and has grown to more than...
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  • COMMITTEE "Yale genealogy and history of Wales : the British kings and princes, life of Owen Glyndwr, biographies of Governor Elihu Yale, for whom Yale University...
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    Boston-born businessman Elihu Yale to ask for money to construct a new building for the college. Through the persuasion of Jeremiah Dummer, Yale, who had made a...
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  • Elihu is a masculine given name. Bearers of the name include: Elihu Abrahams (1927–2018), American theoretical physicist Elihu Anthony (1818–1905), American...
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  • first treasurer of Yale, donated land and a building. The college moved again to New Haven in 1718, and was renamed for Elihu Yale, an early benefactor...
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    Governor Elihu Yale, became an early benefactor and namesake of Yale College, while his former estate, situated in New Haven, became part of Yale's Old Campus...
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    University. The Yale family of America were all descended from the same ancestor, Thomas Yale, Elihu's only uncle with the Yale name. Thomas Yale was the stepson...
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    Thomas Yale, became the patriarch of the Yale family of America, and the grandfather of governor Elihu Yale, benefactor of Yale University. David Yale was...
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    Elihu Yale with Members of his Family and an Enslaved Child (formerly titled Elihu Yale seated at table with the Second Duke of Devonshire and Lord James...
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    Theophilus Yale, and ancestor of Yale Todd, who was accorded his military pension by Founding Father John Jay before Congress Elihu Yale (1649–1721)...
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    life of Owen Glyndwr, biographies of Governor Elihu Yale, for whom Yale University was named, Linus Yale, Sr. ... and other noted persons (eBook, 1908)"...
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    and Lucretia Yale, and was a cousin of Canadian fur trader James Murray Yale and Gov. Elihu Yale of Yale University, members of the Yale family. Merchant...
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    Vista, Colorado. The mountain was named in honor of Elihu Yale, the primary benefactor of what is now Yale University. The term "Collegiate Peaks" comes from...
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    Horace Yale (1908). "Yale genealogy and history of Wales. The British kings and princes. Life of Owen Glyndwr. Biographies of Governor Elihu Yale". Archive...
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    of the Yale family. The area was previously known as Lower Canada, and historically belonged to Nouvelle-France. His uncle was Capt. Elihu Yale, and his...
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    (1673–1700) Lord James Cavendish (c. 1678–1751), married to Anne Yale (died 1734), daughter of Elihu Yale Sir Charles Cavendish (c. 1553–1617) William Cavendish...
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    the patron saint of Wales because the governor of Madras at the time, Elihu Yale, was Welsh. Fort St David, situated on the mouth of River Gadilam, has...
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    Yale became the great-grandfather of Governor Elihu Yale who gave his name to Yale University. His son, Thomas Yale Sr., was the father of the Yales who...
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    ultimately gave the college about two hundred books. Four years later, Elihu Yale, who had previously given some books at Dummer's behest, sent 300 books...
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    politician Dudley North, the son-in-law of Elihu Yale, benefactor of Yale College. Another descendant, Yale Todd, a veteran of the American War of Independence...
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    Wallingford, on November 28, 1795, at 94 years of age. They had 7 children. Elihu Yale (1703-1745), became a soldier in the Louisbourg Expedition against the...
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    Governor Elihu Yale". Archive.org. Milburn and Scott company. p. 498. Note: Thomas Baker Yale, son of Arthur MacPherson Yale, ref: Thomas B. Yale, 1940 U...
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  • a governorship. Subsequently, Elihu Yale who took charge on 8 August 1684 was the First President of Madras. Elihu Yale, Thomas Pitt and George Macartney...
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  • building was erected, it became Yale High School, named after Elihu Yale, best known for being the prime benefactor of Yale University, and whose family...
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    Governor Elihu Yale, for whom Yale University was named, Linus Yale, Sr". Archived.org. pp. 278–279. Retrieved November 27, 2022. Rodney Horace Yale (1908)...
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    century, the Manor was lived in by the wife of Elihu Yale, Catherine Hynmers Yale and their daughter, Ursula Yale. Both are buried in the small church on the...
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    of Elihu Yale by Francis Edwin Elwell and a portrait of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The Yale Club was created in 1897 by the Old Yale Alumni...
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