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| − | '''Henry Clay Folger''' ( | + | '''Henry Clay Folger''' (1857–1930) was a devotee of [[Shakespeare]] who founded, along with his wife Emily, the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] |
He amassed a fortune as president, and later chairman of the board, of Standard Oil Company of New York (which subsequently became Mobil Oil). | He amassed a fortune as president, and later chairman of the board, of Standard Oil Company of New York (which subsequently became Mobil Oil). | ||
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Henry Clay Folger (1857–1930) was a devotee of Shakespeare who founded, along with his wife Emily, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
He amassed a fortune as president, and later chairman of the board, of Standard Oil Company of New York (which subsequently became Mobil Oil).
He was inspired to build his Shakespeare collection, which became the largest in the world, by a speech he heard by Ralph Waldo Emerson while Folger was a student at Amherst College.[1]