Class of 1891

    Entries drawn from the college history encyclopedia


William Weidman Landis (1869-1942)
William Weidman Landis, c.1920

William Weidman Landis was born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania on February 15, 1869, and graduated from the local high school. In 1887, Landis entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a freshman. While a student, he was a member of the Glee Club, the baseball team, Phi Delta Theta...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Faculty
Year: Class of 1891

Cornelius William Prettyman (1872-1946)
Portrait of Cornelius William Prettyman

Cornelius Prettyman was born on July 21, 1872 in Leipsic, Delaware, the son of the Reverend Cornelius Witbank Prettyman of the Dickinson class of 1872 and his wife Emma Elizabeth. He prepared at the Newark Academy in his home state and then entered Delaware College in 1886. That same year he...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Faculty, President
Year: Class of 1891

Harry Bixler Stock (1871-1950)
Harry Bixler Stock, 1908

Harry Stock was born on September 3, 1871, in Carlisle, growing up on the corner of Bedford and Pomfret Streets. Stock graduated from the Carlisle High School in 1886 and attended the local Dickinson Preparatory School for one year before entering Dickinson College proper with the class of 1891...

College Relationship: Alumnus/Alumna, Honorary Degree
Year: Class of 1891
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