Born in Rhode Island, Henry Dexter Sharpe graduated from Brown in 1894, the first year the graduating class included women. He immediately joined his father's Providence-based machine tools firm, Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing, becoming president within five years. He was named a trustee of Brown only ten years after graduating. Sharpe continued to serve on the Brown Corporation in a number of roles over the next fifty years, including twenty years as chancellor. He dedicated his efforts to bolstering the institution's financial resources, and became himself the principal benefactor of the university, donating fellowships and generously supporting the 1940s Housing and Development campaign. When he died in 1954, his largest public bequest was to Brown.
Born in Rhode Island, Henry Dexter Sharpe graduated from Brown in 1894, the first year the graduating class included women. He immediately joined his father's Providence-based machine tools firm, Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing, becoming president within five years. He was named a trustee of Brown only ten years after graduating. Sharpe continued to serve on the Brown Corporation in a number of roles over the next fifty years, including twenty years as chancellor. He dedicated his efforts to bolstering the institution's financial resources, and became himself the principal benefactor of the university, donating fellowships and generously supporting the 1940s Housing and Development campaign. When he died in 1954, his largest public bequest was to Brown.
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