John Harvard and his times . N HARVARD AND HIS TIMES to be laid to rest, Robert Harvard and Kathe-rine Rogers took one another for husband andwife. When the young wife passed once morethrough the portals of her girlhoods home itwas with no prevision that the ceremony inwhich she had taken part a few minutesearlier would result, nearly three centurieshence, in that building being known as theHarvard House. In her new home at Southwark KatherineHarvard would not be quite friendless. Evenif the claims upon William Shakespearestime left him few opportunities to visit Rob-ert Harvards house, his yo
John Harvard and his times . N HARVARD AND HIS TIMES to be laid to rest, Robert Harvard and Kathe-rine Rogers took one another for husband andwife. When the young wife passed once morethrough the portals of her girlhoods home itwas with no prevision that the ceremony inwhich she had taken part a few minutesearlier would result, nearly three centurieshence, in that building being known as theHarvard House. In her new home at Southwark KatherineHarvard would not be quite friendless. Evenif the claims upon William Shakespearestime left him few opportunities to visit Rob-ert Harvards house, his young townswomanwould see him frequently in St. SavioursChurch on Sundays; and by this date Edmund,the youngest of the Shakespeare brothers, hadmade his way to London and started on hiscareer as an actor. He, at any rate, mightbe relied upon to avail himself of the hospi-tality of his old friend from Stratford-on-Avon. Some seventeen months after her arrivalin Southwark, Katherine Harvard found her 80 -; <fi ^ ^x CK- TJs ON. PARENTAGE duties as a hostess overshadowed by her re-sponsibilities as a mother, her first child,Robert, being baptized on the 30th of Sep-tember, 1606. Fourteen months later thisentry was made in the baptismal records ofSt. Saviours Church: 1607 November 29JOHN HARVYE S. of Robt. a Butcher. Hardly had the future benefactor of learningin the great Republic of the West completedthe first month of his life than the rooms ofthe house in which he lay echoed one morn-ing with the doleful knell of the great bell ofSt. Saviours Church. On that Decembermorning a company of mourners were as-sembled around an open grave in that sacredbuilding. Among them stood William Shake-speare, watching with sad eyes the loweringof the coflSn containing the body of his favouritebrother Edmund. Nor is it improbable thatRobert Harvard stood close by, in sympathywith the sorrow of his friend, and as repre-senting that household in Stratford-on-Avonwhich had given him a wife, and th
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