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WINKLEY, Henry, donor, born in Barrington, New Hampshire, 9 November, 1803 ; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 August, 1888. He was educated at district schools and at Pembroke academy. On the completion of his studies he went to Boston, Massachusetts, and was employed in a crockery-store. Subsequently he engaged in that business for himself, and was an importer of china-ware in New York and Philadelphia from 1831 till 1852. In the latter year he retired from business, and thereafter devoted himself to the study of religious, social, and political economy, in the pursuit of which he travelled throughout the world. He was not married, and divided his fortune among such educational institutions as he considered orthodox. Mr. Winkley gave to Williams college, $50,000) ; to Phillips Exeter academy, $30,000; to Bowdoin college, $70,000: to the Theological seminary at Bangor, Maine, $30,000: to that at Andover, $45,000; and to the one at Yale, 50,000; to Dartmouth college, $80,000; and to Amherst college, $30,000. All these bequests are directed by the will to constitute permanent funds, the income of which is to be applied for the benefit and purposes of the institutions as the trustees may think best. Mr. Winkley left to the American Bible society $20,000, and to the Young men's Christian association of Philadelphia $20,000. His remains were interred in Mount Auburn, where he had built a granite mausoleum in a lot that was the only piece of real estate he ever owned.
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