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Elihu
Yale
Born in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Son of David Yale
and Ursula (Knight) Yale
Husband of
Catherine (Elford) Yale
— married
1680 in Fort Saint George, Madras, India
Descendants 
Died
at age 72
in London, England
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Biography
Birth
Elihu Yale was born in New Haven, Connecticut 5 April 1648, New Haven, Connecticut. [1] "He went to England at ten years of age, and to Hindoostan at thirty. In that country he resided about twenty years; was made governor of Madras; and married the widow of Governor Hinmers, his predeccessor. Having acquired a large fortune, he returned to London; was chosen governor of the East India Company; and died at Rexon, July 8th, 1721." [2]
Marriage and Children
Married widow Catherine Hynmers in 1680. [3] Children of Elihu Yale
- Anne Yale d. 27 Jun 1734
- Catherine Yale
Founding of Yale University
He was the benefactor of a school in Connecticut that was renamed Yale College in his honour in 1718 (in 1887 it became Yale University). [4]
Death and Burial
He died on July 8, 1721 in London, England, and was buried in the churchyard of the parish church of St. Giles in Wrexham, Wales. [5] Denbighshire is in north-east Wales bordering the English county of Cheshire.
He has a Findagrave Memorial at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, the final resting place for John Trumbull.
Sources
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/connecticuthisto03barb/page/146 Page 146
- ↑ The Connecticut Magazine (Connecticut Magazine Co., Dec. 1899) Vol. 5, No. 12, https://archive.org/details/connecticutmagazv5p2hart/page/637 Page 637-8
- ↑ Marriages at Fort St George Madras Exeter: William Pollard & Co, 1907. FamilySearch
- ↑ Wikipedia:Yale_College
- ↑ Levick, Dr. James J. "The early Welsh Quakers and Their Emigration to Pennsylvania" The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 1893: Vol XVII (17) Issue 4. p.388. See note (1) at bottom of p. 388. https://archive.org/details/sim_pennsylvania-magazine-of-history-and-biography_1893_17_4/page/388/mode/1up?q=early+Welsh+Quakers&view=theater
- http://www.thepeerage.com/p1469.htm#i14681
- Elihu Yale - Wikipedia. The biography has information on the Yale family.
- Franklin B. Dexter. Governor Elihu Yale, "Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society" (1882) Vol. 3, Page 227-48
- Epitaph of Elihu Yale, Esq., New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, 1850) Vol. 4., Page 245
- Barber, John Warner. Connecticut Historical Collections (Durrie & Peck and J.W. Barber, 1836)
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