Class of 1812

    Entries drawn from the college history encyclopedia


Claudius Berard (1786-1848)

Claudius Berard was born in France in the port city of Bordeaux on November 21, 1786. Of a relatively wealthy family, he received a classical education and when his conscription order came to enter the Napoleonic armies his father purchased for him a substitute. This substitute was later killed...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Faculty
Year: Class of 1812

Robert Cooper Grier (1794-1870)
Robert Cooper Grier, c.1850

Robert Cooper Grier was born on March 5, 1794 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, the eldest of the eleven children of Presbyterian minister Isaac Grier, a member of the Dickinson class of 1788 and his wife Mary Cooper Grier. Schooled by his father, he entered Dickinson at seventeen and finished...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1812

Alexander Laws Hayes (1793-1875)

Alexander L. Hayes was born in Kent County, Delaware on March 7, 1793, the son of Manlove and Ziporrah Laws Hayes. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1812 and after graduation studied law with Henry Moore Ridgely of Dover, Delaware. Hayes passed the bar in...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Trustee
Year: Class of 1812

William Carr Lane (1789-1863)
William Carr Lane (1789-1863)

William Carr Lane was born on a farm in Fayette County, Pennsylvania on December 1, 1789. He attended Jefferson College and then went on to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 1812. He left to study medicine in Kentucky, at Louisville.

He served in the...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1812

George Latimer Potter (1795-1822)

George Latimer Potter was born into a distinguished Revolutionary family at Potter's Mills in what is now Centre County, Pennsylvania on June 13, 1795. He was one of seven siblings, including his elder brother, William Potter. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1812

William W. Potter (1792-1839)

William Wilson Potter was born into a distinguished Revolutionary family at Potter's Mills - in what is now Centre County, Pennsylvania - on December 18, 1792. He was one of seven siblings, which includes, George Latimer Potter, his younger brother. He attended a Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Latin...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna
Year: Class of 1812
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