University of New Hampshire Librarian Leaves Entire $4M Estate to School

A librarian who quietly saved a $4 million fortune passed away and left his entire estate to the university where he worked for nearly 50 years.

Robert Morin, who graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1963 and worked as a cataloger in Dimond Library, was known to live simply and loved books, according to the school's website. In fact, he was such a lover of the bounded written word that he read every book published in the U.S. between 1930 and 1940 in chronological order with some exceptions. The school estimates that by the time he died last year at the age of 77, he had read 1,938 books.