Department of Jurisprudence in the University of California, to be known as the 'John H. Boalt Professorship of Jurisprudence.'" She later modified the fund as a permanent endowment "for such chair or chairs as my said trustees or their successors, may designate and determine, or, in lieu of such designation, as the said Board of Regents shall determine." She was also a secret patron of artists, musicians, and writers. A pianist in her youth, Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt went on to enroll in Vienna as a pupil of Leschetizky at age 60. She studied Italian, German, and French and maintained a society of artists, musicians, and literary people. Legacy Boalt has recently become known for his racist views of Chinese people. He was an influential supporter of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. In 1877 he read a paper before the Berkeley Club in which he wrote that Chinese were unassimilable liars, murderers and misogynists who provoked "unconquerable repulsion." This writing was later championed by Senator Creed Haymond of Sacramento, who was the chair of the newly convened Senate Special Committee on Chinese Immigration and California Senator Aaron A. Sargent. Because of Boalt's racist legacy, Berkeley law lecturer Charles P. Reichmann proposed in 2018 that the building be renamed. The school announced its decision to remove his name from the building in January 2020, and was removed from the building on the morning of January 30, 2020. References External links Connecticut State Library Obituary Sketch 1837 births 1901 deaths Amherst College alumni People from Norwalk, Ohio People of Ohio in the American Civil War Lawyers from Oakland, California People from Cloverdale, California Union Army soldiers University of California, Berkeley people Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States Heidelberg University alumni American expatriates in Germany