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Thomas Paschall Roberts, known as Colonel, was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on April 21, 1843 to William Milnor Roberts and Anna Gibson Roberts. His grandfather was John Bannister Gibson, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania. Roberts began classes at...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1864
Thomas Lloyd Rockwell (1923-1944)

Thomas Rockwell was born in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania in May 1923 and attended the Carson Long Military Institute. He entered Colgate University and transferred to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania after a year, but withdrew before the...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1945
Allan Scott Rogers (1924-1944)

Born on March 24, 1924, Allan Rogers was from Jenkintown, Pennsylvania and was a graduate of Abington High School. He transferred to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1942 from Duke University but was called to active duty after only...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1946
Horace E. Rogers, c.1960

Horace Rogers was born on December 5, 1902 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1920 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa four years later in 1924. He had also become a member of the Kappa Sigma...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Faculty
Year: Class of 1924
Lewis G. Rohrbaugh, c.1930

Lewis Guy Rohrbaugh was born on February 24, 1884 in Fowblesburg, near Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Franklin High School in Reisterstown in 1903 and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. During his college years,...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Faculty, Honorary Degree
Year: Class of 1907
James Ross (1743-1827)

 James Ross was born on May 18, 1743 in Oxford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of William Ross, a Scottish-Irish immigrant. He attended Princeton College, although there is no record of him graduating. He received a master’...

College Relationship: Faculty
Marie T. Rossi (1957-1991)

A graduate of River Dell Regional High School near her home in Oradell, New Jersey, Marie Rossi entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the autumn of 1976 and graduated with her class of 1980 as a psychology major. While at the...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1980

Birth: January 5, 1840; Franklin, Newton County, Georgia

Death:  May 2, 1928 (age 88); Canyon City, Oregon

Military Service: CSA, 1861-65

Unit: 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; 208th Pennsylvania Infantry

Alma...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1861
William Capers Round (1842-1862)

Birth: April 23, 1842; Newton County, Georgia

Death:  June 27, 1862 (age 20); Richmond, Virginia

Military Service: CSA, 1861-62

Unit: Company B of the First (Orr's) Rifles

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

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1863

Birth: 1822/23; Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Death:  1864

Military Service: USA, 1861-64

Unit: 26th Pennsylvania Infantry

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1845 non-graduate)

Albert Rowland came...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1845
President Howard Lane Rubendall, c.1965

Howard Rubendall was born on May 14, 1910 in Williamstown, Pennsylvania to Charles W. and Lottie Row Rubendall. He grew up in the small ferry town of Millersburg near Harrisburg and attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from which...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree, President, Trustee
Year: Class of 1931
David Mohler Rupp (c.1895-1918)

David Rupp was born in Shiremanstown, Pennsylvania. He attended the Dickinson College Preparatory School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and then spent two years at Lafayette College before returning to enroll at Dickinson College. He completed the...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1916
Benjamin Rush, c.1813

Benjamin Rush was born to John and Susanna Harvey Rush on December 24, 1745. The family, which included seven children, lived on a plantation in Byberry, near Philadelphia. When Benjamin was five his father died, leaving his mother to care for...

College Relationship: Trustee
James Fowler Rusling (1834-1918)

Birth:  April 14, 1834; Washington,Warren County, New Jersey

Death:  April 1, 1918 (age 83); Trenton, New Jersey

Military Service: USA, 1861-67

Unit: 5th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, 2nd Division of III Corps, Volunteer...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree, Trustee
Year: Class of 1854
Sylvester Bake Sadler, c.1920

Sylvester Sadler was born in Carlisle on September 29, 1876, and attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania before transferring to Yale like his older brother, Lewis. Unlike Lewis, however, Sylvester completed his studies at Yale with a...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree
Year: Class of 1895
The Salmagundi, 1904

The Salmagundi was the literary magazine published by the Harman Literary Society following its resurrection in 1900 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The original Salmagundi was composed by Washington Irving in...

Eli Saulsbury, c.1875

Eli Saulsbury was born as the middle child of three sons of William and Margaret Smith Saulsbury, wealthy landowners in Kent County, Delaware, on December 29, 1817. He was schooled locally and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1843
Willard Saulsbury, c.1860

Willard Saulsbury was born as the youngest of three sons of William and Margaret Smith Saulsbury, wealthy landowners in Kent County, Delaware, on June 2, 1820. Saulsbury prepared at Delaware College at Newark, and attended Dickinson College in...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1842

John Saxton was born on July 3, 1833 in Silver Spring Township near New Kingston, Pennsylvania. He was the only son of John and Nancy Saxton. Although his farmer father died when John was ten years old, he attended the New Kingston Academy and...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1855
Ralph Schecter, c.1945

Ralph Schecter was born on September 28, 1893 in Riola, Illinois, and attended public schools in nearby Danville. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1916. Following service with the American Expeditionary Force in France as an...

College Relationship: Faculty
Alexander Jacob Schem (1826-1881)

Alexander Jacob Schem was born on March 16, 1826 in Wiedenbruck in Westphalia to a vinegar manufacturer named Freidrich Schem and his wife Adolphine von Felgenhauer. He was educated first at the Paderborn Gymnasium and then went on to the...

College Relationship: Faculty
Samuel Simon Schmucker (1799-1873)

Samuel Simon Schmucker was born in Hagerstown, Maryland on February 28, 1799, the son of a Lutheran minister John George Schmucker, an immigrant from Germany, and Catherine Gross. His father transferred to York, Pennsylvania in 1809 and Samuel...

College Relationship: Trustee
Levi Scott, c.1860

Levi Scott was born on October 11, 1802 in Newcastle County, Delaware near Odessa. Little is known of his early life and education except that he was converted to the Methodist faith on October 16, 1822 at Fieldboro, Delaware and began to study...

College Relationship: Trustee
Sellers House, c.1960

On June 28, 1943, Dickinson College purchased the Sellers House, the former residence of Montgomery P. Sellers, for $15,000. This orange brick building, located on West High Street, served as a dormitory for men until 1944, when it became the...

Charles C. Sellers, c.1970

Charles Coleman Sellers was born in Overbrook, Pennsylvania on March 16, 1903. He attended Haverford College until 1925, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and went on to earn his master of arts degree from Harvard in 1926. He then went on to a career as...

College Relationship: Faculty, Honorary Degree

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