 Bussey, a silversmith, had bought the land from the Weld family in 1806, and built a mansion in 1815.When he died, he left to Harvard, and by 1871 the Bussey Institute had been built.. James Drummond Dole obtained a bachelor in agriculture at the Bussey Institute before moving to Hawaii and developing pineapple growing and canning industry there.Alfred Kinsey, an American biologist who became famous for his work on human sexuality, studied at the Bussey Institute under famed entomologist William Morton Wheeler.