Entries drawn from the college history encyclopedia
Gustavus C. Bird was born in West River, Maryland on January 4, 1839 to Benjamin Lee and Emily Eversfield Duvall Bird. His father was a prominent physician in the county. Bird entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1857. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma...
Birth: August 1, 1837; Fairfax Court House, Virginia
Death: January 5, 1905 (age 68); Washington, D. C
Military Service: CSA, 1861-65
Unit: 3rd Virginia Cavalry; Secret Service
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1857)
Thomas Conrad was born on August...
Birth: November 3, 1834; Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Death: January 20, 1899 (age 64); Emporia, Kansas
Military Service: USA, 1861-65
Unit: Company A, 129th Illinois Infantry
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1857)
Joseph Franklin Culver was born in...
John Hays was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on February 2, 1837 the youngest of two sons and a daughter of John and Eleanor Blaine Hays. On both sides of his family, the young John Hays was descended from old and highly respected central Pennsylvania stock. He was educated in the common schools...
Richard Watson Humphriss was born to Joshua and Ann Humphriss in Sudlersville, Maryland on May 27, 1836. He prepared for college at the Hyatt Academy and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the fall of 1854 with the class of 1857. He was elected to the Union Philosophical...
Jacob A. Kiester was born in Mount Pleasant in south western Pennsylvania on April 29, 1832. Having prepared for college in the local common schools and at the nearby Mount Pleasant Academy, he entered Dickinson College with the class of 1857 in 1854. Kiester left the college after just a year,...
