Class of 1862

    Entries drawn from the college history encyclopedia

Martin Christian Herman, 1870

Martin Herman was born on February 14, 1841 on the farm his German immigrant great-grandfather had cleared in 1771 near New Kingston, Pennsylvania. He was one of the six children of Martin and Elizabeth Wolford Herman. He prepared for college at the York County Academy under George Ruby and...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Trustee
Year: Class of 1862
Benjamin Peffer Lamberton (1844-1912)

Birth: February 25, 1844; Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

Death: June 9, 1912 (age 68); Washington, D.C.

Military Service: USN, 1861-65

Unit: Asiatic Squadron, South Atlantic Squadron

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1862)

Benjamin Lamberton...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1862

Birth: Hays Creek, Mississippi 

Death:  1865; Atlanta, Georgia

Military Service: CSA, 1861-65

Unit: Company A, 1st Light Artillery Regiment Mississippi 

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1862 non-graduate)

Isaac Sullivan came to Dickinson College in...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1862
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