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Thomas Williams (1806-1872)

Thomas Williams was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania on August 28, 1806, the son of Robert Williams, a Cecil County, Maryland native. He was educated at local schools and then enrolled in Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, graduating...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1825
Edwin Eliott Willoughby (1899-1959)

Edwin Willoughby was born in Philadelphia on November 5, 1899, the eldest of the three children of printer Frank Faul Willoughby and his wife Annie. While Edwin was still a child, the family moved to New Jersey. In 1918, Willoughby entered...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree
Year: Class of 1922
Frances Lois Willoughby (1906-1984)

Frances Willoughby was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on July 1, 1905 to Frank and Annie Smith Willoughby. The family moved to Pitman, New Jersey, and Frances was educated at Woodbury High School before entering Dickinson College in Carlisle,...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1927
Wilson Hall (1964-2005)

Students first occupied Wilson Hall (Quad 9), one of ten residence halls that made up the Dickinson College’s Fraternity Quadrangle, in September 1964. It originally served as the residence of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and when the fraternity...

James Wilson

James Wilson was born in Scotland, near St. Andrews on September 14, 1742. Between November 1757 and June 1765 he studied at St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Edinburgh before he emigrated to Philadelphia. He was engaged as a Latin tutor at the College...

College Relationship: Trustee
John Winebrenner, c.1850

John Winebrenner was born in Glade Valley near Frederick, Maryland on March 25, 1797, the third son of prosperous farmer Philip Winebrenner and his wife Eve Barrick Winebrenner. He was educated first at a country school near his home and then at...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1818
Professor Herbert Wing with students, c.1960

Herbert Wing, Jr. was born on December 8, 1889 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 1909 and went on to the University of Wisconsin, where he received his Ph...

College Relationship: Faculty, Honorary Degree
Witwer Hall, 1966

The final building to be constructed on Dickinson College’s Benjamin Rush campus, Witwer Hall was dedicated on October 14, 1967. The hall, which was first used as a residence hall for women, was designed by Elmer H. Adams and constructed at a...

Albert Metzger Witwer, 1900

Albert Witwer, or "Wit", was born in Lancaster County on March 3, 1876. He attended the Dickinson Preparatory School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and then the College proper. He received his B.A. in 1900 and his M.A. in 1905 from Dickinson. While at...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree
Year: Class of 1900
David F. Woods, 1859

David F. Woods was born in Dickinson Township, Pennsylvania on September 16, 1837, the son of Richard and Mary Jane Sterrett Woods. He was educated in local schools but prepared for higher education in an academy connected with his uncle, the...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1859

James Sterrett Woods was born on April 18, 1793 in Dickinson Township near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the son of Samuel and Francis Sterrett Woods. He was prepared for college at the Hopewell Academy of John Hooper and entered the local Dickinson...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1814
Paul V. Woodward (1915-1944)

Paul Woodward was born in London on August 2, 1915, where his father, Franklin Woodward, class of 1901, was the European patent attorney for an American company. A fourth generation Dickinsonian, Paul attended high school on Long Island and...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1937
Theodore George Wormley (1826-1897)

Theodore George Wormley was born in Wormleysburg, Pennsylvania on April 1, 1826. Shortly thereafter he and his family moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania where he spent his childhood. Theodore Wormley became a pupil at the Grammar School of the local...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree
Year: Class of 1848
Hendrick Bradley Wright (1808-1881)

Hendrick Bradley Wright was born on April 24, 1808, the oldest child of a farming and merchant family at Plymouth, Pennsylvania. He attended local schools and the Wilkes-Barre Academy. In May 1829, he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle,...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1831

John Armstrong Wright was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Archibald and Jane Berks Wright, on October 7, 1820. He prepared for college at Wibraham Academy in Massachusetts and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Trustee
Year: Class of 1838

Birth: December 25, 1836; Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Death: October 8, 1900 (age 53); Second Battle of Bull Run

Military Service: USA, 1861-1900

Unit: Regular Army's 4th Artillery

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1858
Vincent Yarashes (1920-1944)

Vincent Yarashes was born in Luzerne, Pennsylvania on August 28, 1920. He was the son of Lithuanian immigrants; his father was a coal miner. He graduated from Luzerne High School and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1942
James H. Yeingst (1922-1950)

James Yeingst was born in Mount Holly, Pennsylvania, and was a graduate of Carlisle High School. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1943. Excelling in science, he nevertheless left the College while still a...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1943

Seth H. Yocum was born in Catawissa, Columbia County, Pennsylvania on August 2, 1834. He was educated in rural schools and then went to Philadelphia to learn the printing and editing trade. Yocum entered the class of 1860 at Dickinson College in...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1860
Henry J. Young, 1973

Henry James Young (friends jokingly put a comma between the middle and last names) was born February 16, 1908, in York, Pennsylvania. His family were comfortably placed; in passing he sometimes mentioned a German maid. Orphaned in his teens, he...

College Relationship: Faculty
Jesse Bowman Young (1844-1914)

Birth: July 5, 1844; Berwick, Pennsylvania

Death: July 30, 1914 (age 70);

Military Service: USA, 1861-64

Unit:  4th Illinois Cavalry, 84th Pennsylvania Volunteers

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1868);...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree, Trustee
Year: Class of 1868
President Charles Nisbet's Commencement Address in 1787, Transcribed by John Young

John Young was born on September 4, 1763 in York County, Pennsylvania. Little is known of his early life prior to his enrollment in Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. As a member of the Class of 1788, Young studied under President...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Trustee
Year: Class of 1788
John Clarke Young (1803-1857)

John C. Young was born in Greencastle, Pennsylvania on August 12, 1803 to John and Mary Clarke Young. His father and his uncle were Presbyterian ministers, and he quickly determined to follow that course. To that end, he was educated at home and...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1823
Zeta Eta Phi

Zeta Eta Phi was a local sorority established at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1921. The group was the forerunner of Zeta Tau Alpha, a national sorority whose Dickinson chapter was founded in 1924.

Organization Type: Greek Life

The Alpha Chapter of the Zeta Psi fraternity was established at Dickinson College in 1852. By the next year, the College trustees had forced its members to sign written pledges promising to disband the organization, and even burned the fraternity...

Organization Type: Greek Life

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