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Henry Fowle Durant

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Name
  
Henry Durant

Role
  
Lawyer


Died
  
October 3, 1881, Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States

Organizations founded
  
Wellesley College, Dana Hall School

Education
  

Henry Fowle Durant (originally Henry Welles Smith) (February 22, 1822 – October 3, 1881) was an American lawyer and philanthropist.

Early life and career

Durant was born in Hanover, New Hampshire and graduated from Harvard in 1841. He studied law and subsequently practiced in Boston. He underwent a religious conversion and became a lay preacher in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, practicing from 1864 to 1875.

Durant contributed between one and two million dollars to found Wellesley College, in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

He died from Bright's Disease at the age of 59.

References

Henry Fowle Durant Wikipedia


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