[Honorary Doctor of Laws degree] / Harvard College, June 26, 1895.

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[Honorary Doctor of Laws degree] / Harvard College, June 26, 1895.

Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., June 26, 1895, signed by Charles W. Eliot, president; William C. Endicott, Secretary of War; Henry L. Higginson, Harvard Fellow, et. al. Document printed on parchment.

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