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en
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Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Jeannie Howse and Friend, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2010-08-06
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Public domain in the USA.

1766–1853
A Boston merchant turned major philanthropist, he used the fortune he built in New England trade to support education, science, and public life. His gifts helped institutions like Dartmouth and the Massachusetts Hospital for the Insane, and his name still appears in the history of nineteenth-century American philanthropy.
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