Harvard lost one of its most conspicuous benefactors with the death yesterday at his home in Readville of Augustus Hemenway '79, donor of the gymnasium which bears his name. Mr. Hemenway, who was born in Boston in 1853, made the gift on his graduation; the gymnasium, completed in 1875 and greatly enlarged by the donor in 1895, replaced the small, octagonal Rogers Building as an indoor athletic center, and was considered at the time the finest of its kind in the world.
Mr. Hemenway, whose gifts included a high school and library building furnished to the town of Canton, served the University as an Overseer. He was a trustee of several large estates, served on the Metropolitan Park Commission which created the Revere Beach Reservation, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for two years.
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