On August 8, 1874, George Wesley Pedlow was born in Manistee, Michigan. He attended public schools in Upland, Pennsylvania and Dickinson Preparatory School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania before enrolling in the College proper. At Dickinson, he was a...

Birth: March 10, 1832; Sackett's Harbor, New York,

Death:  August 29, 1903 (age 71); Salt Lake City, Utah

Military Service: USA, 1861-96

Unit: 3rd Infantry of the Regular Army,  15th Infantry New Jersey, 1st Brigade of 6th...

The Pflaum Lectures in History are supported by income from a fund contributed to by students and friends of the late Professor John C. Pflaum in appreciation of his effective teaching. The lectures bring to campus scholars who, like Professor...

Phi Alpha Pi was a local sorority founded at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1898. It is said that an earlier chapter of this sorority existed on the campus, but had “died a natural death from want of support.” In any case, the...

This stone lodge was built for the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1899. It was designed by Harry E. Yessle.

The College’s purchase of the building for $8,300 was authorized on June 5, 1931,...

Phi Kappa Delta was a local fraternity founded at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1913. Little is actually known about the organization, but it appears that it drew its members from both the College and the Dickinson Law School....

In 1904 the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania purchased a lot at 47 South College Street from Merkel Landis, Esq., class of 1896, at a cost of $1,200.

Construction began according to the designs of M...

The Phi Nu Theta fraternity became the first Greek organization in the history of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Also known as the Eclectic Fraternity, this organization was founded on May 12, 1852, and consisted of Professor Herman...

Pi Delta Phi is a national honorary for students who have earned scholastic honors in French. The chapter at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania selects its members from the junior and senior classes, and was founded in 1962.

Though never an employee of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Noah Pinkney was one of its most famous names for forty years. Known to Dickinson students as "Pink" or "Uncle Noah" for all of that time, Pinckney was born a slave in...

Esther Popel was born on July 16, 1896 to Joseph Gibbs and Helen King Anderson Popel of Harrisburg, PA. Esther had an older sister, Helen, and a younger brother, Samuel. The 1900 census indicates that her father was a letter carrier and the...

Bibliography of Writings About Esther Popel Shaw

Primary Sources

"2 Students Get Scholarships." Baltimore Afro-American, Mar 25, 1939.

"3,743 DIPLOMAS GO TO...