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WATKINSON, David, philanthropist, born in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, 17 January, 1778; died in Hartford, Connecticut, 13 December, 1857. His education was partly conducted by Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld, and he came to this country with his parents in 1795, settling in Middletown, Connecticut He was employed in a counting-house in New York city, and in 1800 began business with his brother, William, in Hartford. In 1841 he retired with a fortune. By his will he gave $40,000 to the Hartford hospital, $20,000 to the orphan asylum, $40,000 for the foundation of a juvenile asylum and farm school for neglected and abandoned children, and $100,000 for a library of reference in connection with the Connecticut historical society, also making the trustees of the library of reference residuary legatees of his estate.
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