Elihu Yale - Cultural References

Cultural References

  • Elihu later became the name of a "senior society" founded in 1903 at Yale.
  • Tom Wolfe, who earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale, named the African-American Atlanta police chief in A Man in Full Elihu Yale.
  • Yale College, a college in Wrexham, is also named after Elihu Yale.
  • Elihu Yale is the name given to a JD Wetherspoons Public House in the town of Wrexham.
  • Theodore Roosevelt's son Quentin kept a Hyacinth macaw named Eli Yale.
  • A Yale University student or alumnus is known informally as either an Eli or a Yalie.

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