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Named for Charles Franklin Doe, who came from Maine in 1857 as a schoolteacher and made his fortune in California. He left a quarter of his estate to the university ... and the cozy Morrison Library, ...
Home to many of the university Library's special collections, including one of the largest collections of Western Americana, the library was founded with Hubert Howe Bancroft's 19th century gift of ...
The university concluded that George Berkeley, whom the library is named after, owned slaves in colonial Rhode Island, according to the Times. The University of California, Berkeley, was also named ...