Class of 1826

    Entries drawn from the college history encyclopedia

Henry Lewis Baugher

Henry Lewis Baugher was born in Abbottstown, Adams County, Pennsylvania on July 19, 1804 to tanner Christian Frederick and his wife Ann Catharine Matter Baugher. He was educated in Reverend David McConaughty's school in Gettysburg and entered Dickinson College in 1822. He was admitted to the...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree
Year: Class of 1826
William Wood Gerhard

William Wood Gerhard was born on July 23, 1809 to a Moravian Brethren hatter and his wife in Philadelphia. William, the eldest child, was educated at home and in local schools; as a voracious reader he was able to enter Dickinson College with the class of 1826 at the age of seventeen. While at...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1826
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