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Charles Tufts (1781 - 1876) Charles Tufts was the donor of the land which Tufts University now occupies on the Medford-Somerville line. His donation of twenty acres was valued at $20,000 and was located on one of the highest hills in the Boston area, called Walnut Hill. The land was given to the Universalist church on the condition that it be used for a college. With subsequent gifts, his donations of land to the college totaled more than 100 acres. Tufts was engaged in farming and brick manufacturing, and he owned substantial amounts of land in Medford and Somerville. A descendant of Peter Tufts, an early colonist who settled in Malden in 1638, Tufts married Hannah Robinson in 1821, but had no children. |
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