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On his death in 1873, Johns Hopkins, a Quaker entrepreneur and childless bachelor, bequeathed $ 7 million ( Between $ 140 million to $ 1. 6 billion in 2011 dollars, by varying estimates ) to fund a hospital and university in Baltimore, Maryland.
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