Glover, Elizabeth Harris (d. 1643)

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Glover, Elizabeth Harris (d. 1643)

Massachusetts printer. Name variations: Elizabeth Dunster; Elizabeth Harris. Born Elizabeth Harris in Bury, Lancashire, England; died Aug 23, 1643, in Cambridge, Massachusetts; m. Jose or Josse Glover (nonconforming minister, died Dec 22, 1638); m. Henry Dunster (1609–1659, cleric and educator and 1st president of Harvard, then known as Cambridge College), June 22, 1641; children: (1st m.) Elizabeth Glover (married Adam Winthrop, son of governor John Winthrop), Sara Glover and 3 stepchildren, Roger, John and Priscilla. Following her death, Henry Dunster married Elizabeth Atkinson (1627–1690) and had 5 children: Dorothy Dunster (b. 1646), David Dunster (b. 1645), Henry Dunster (b. 1650), Jonathan Dunster (b. 1653), and Elizabeth Dunster (b. 1656).

From England, set out for New England with 1st husband (May 16, 1638) who died en route; with permission from New England officials, opened The Cambridge Press near Cambridge College (later Harvard University), which was 1st printing firm in the colonies (1639); printed publications including The Whole Booke of Psalms (more commonly known as Bay Psalm Book).