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Nicholas G. Rutgers IV, Descendant of Namesake of Rutgers University, Dies at 92

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Mr. Rutgers’ great-great-great-great-uncle was Col. Henry Rutgers, a Revolutionary War hero who was one of the most generous philanthropists of his time. Col. Rutgers supported a host of churches, schools and charities in Manhattan and donated a bell and the interest on a $5,000 bond to the struggling Queen’s College in New Jersey, which later honored the colonel by taking on the name Rutgers.



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