Class of 1857

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Gustavus Claggett Bird (1839-1899)
Gustavus Claggett Bird, 1857

Gustavus C. Bird was born in West River, Maryland on January 4, 1839 to Benjamin Lee and Emily Eversfield Duvall Bird. His father was a prominent physician in the county. Bird entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1857. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1857

Thomas Nelson Conrad (1837-1905)
Thomas N. Conrad, 1857

Birth: August 1, 1837; Fairfax Court House, Virginia

Death: January 5, 1905 (age 68); Washington, D. C

Military Service: CSA, 1861-65

Unit: 3rd Virginia Cavalry; Secret Service

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1857)

Thomas Conrad was born on August...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1857

Joseph Franklin Culver (1834-1899)

Joseph Franklin Culver

Birth: November 3, 1834; Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Death: January 20, 1899 (age 64);  Emporia, Kansas

 Military Service: USA, 1861-65

 Unit:  Company A, 129th Illinois Infantry

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1857)

Joseph Franklin Culver was born in...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1857

John Hays (1837-1921)
John Hays II, 1862

John Hays was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on February 2, 1837 the youngest of two sons and a daughter of John and Eleanor Blaine Hays. On both sides of his family, the young John Hays was descended from old and highly respected central Pennsylvania stock. He was educated in the common schools...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree
Year: Class of 1857

Richard Watson Humphriss (1836-1918)

Richard Watson Humphriss

Richard Watson Humphriss was born to Joshua and Ann Humphriss in Sudlersville, Maryland on May 27, 1836. He prepared for college at the Hyatt Academy and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the fall of 1854 with the class of 1857. He was elected to the Union Philosophical...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1857

Jacob Armel Kiester (1832-1904)
Jacob Armel Kiester (1832-1904)

Jacob A. Kiester was born in Mount Pleasant in south western Pennsylvania on April 29, 1832. Having prepared for college in the local common schools and at the nearby Mount Pleasant Academy, he entered Dickinson College with the class of 1857 in 1854. Kiester left the college after just a year,...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1857
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