John Harvard and his times . CHAPTER IIPARENTAGE THREE years before the sixteenthcentury ended, a young man namedRobert Harvard had established him-self in business as a butcher in a shop in HighStreet, Southwark, London. That house,which we may easily imagine as one of thosequaint, wooden structures with overhangingupper story, such as were the usual abodes ofLondon tradesmen in Elizabethan times, wasto be his home for the remainder of his life. Prior to his appearance as a tradesman, thelife of Robert Harvard is a blank. His fathersChristian name and occupation, his birth-place and the date
John Harvard and his times . CHAPTER IIPARENTAGE THREE years before the sixteenthcentury ended, a young man namedRobert Harvard had established him-self in business as a butcher in a shop in HighStreet, Southwark, London. That house,which we may easily imagine as one of thosequaint, wooden structures with overhangingupper story, such as were the usual abodes ofLondon tradesmen in Elizabethan times, wasto be his home for the remainder of his life. Prior to his appearance as a tradesman, thelife of Robert Harvard is a blank. His fathersChristian name and occupation, his birth-place and the date of his birth — all theseparticulars are at present unknown. Conse-quently it is impossible to say whence thisyoung man derived the capital which would benecessary for his start in life, though one itemof information which has been revealed by JOHN HARVARD AND HIS TIMES recent research may be thought to throwsome light on that matter. In the month ofAugust, 1592, a clothworker, Peter Medcalfeby name, who lived in the parish
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