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Rolland Adams was born on December 27, 1904 in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania to Lemuel B. and Carrie Adams. He attended Dickinson College as a member of the class of 1927, during which time he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Adams then completed an extension course in finance from the...
Wilbur Adams was born on October 23, 1884 in Georgetown, Delaware, the son of William and Sarah Adams. He graduated from Georgetown High School and began his college career at Delaware College in Newark, but in 1902 he joined the class of 1905 at Dickinson College. He was a member of the Belles...
Samuel Agnew was born August 10, 1777 in Millerstown, near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the son of James and Mary Ramsey Agnew. He studied first under the Rev. Matthew Dobbin near his home and then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle. He graduated with the class of 1798 and began studies in...
Joseph Benson Akers was born on February 3, 1829 in Akersville, Brush Creek Township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania. He was the eldest son of carding mill owner Israel Akers and his wife, Elizabeth Lewis Akers. The younger Akers was educated locally, taught Sunday School, and then entered...
Birth: December 13, 1830; Berks County, Pennsylvania
Death: September 28, 1880 (age 49); Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania
Military Service: USA, 1862-65
Unit: 132nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 34th Pennsylvania Militia, 202nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer...
Birth: April, 6 1828; New Castle County, Delaware
Death: August 8, 1862 (age 34); Front Royal, Virginia
Military service: USA, 1861-62
Unit: 3rd Delaware Infantry
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1856)
Wililiam R. Aldred was the oldest of 10...
Chester Ames was born in 1871 to William C. and Margaret Demory Ames. He first attended Western Maryland College before transferring to Dickinson in 1888. At the College, Ames was a member of the Belles Lettres Literary Society, and Phi Beta Kappa, and a founding member of the College’s chapter...
Birth: July 24, 1829
Death: November 18, 1862; Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, Virginia
Military service: CSA, 1861-62 (Hospital Duty)
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1852); University of Virginia, M.D.
Born in Salem, Roanoke County, Virginia. Henry...
Born on October 24, 1875 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania to David K. and Elizabeth (Fohl) Appenzellar, Paul Peyton Appenzellar went to preparatory school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as well as Dickinson preparatory school in Carlisle. He entered the College in 1891 and in 1895 received his A.B. in...
Lemuel Towers Appold was born in Baltimore, Maryland on January 27, 1862 to leather merchant Samuel Appold and his wife Susan. Following schooling at the Stewart Hall in Baltimore, he matriculated at Dickinson College and graduated with the class of 1882. During his time at the College, he was a...
Benjamin Arbogast was born on November 13, 1825 in Pocahontas, Virginia the youngest of the nine children of farmers Benjamin and Francis Ann Mullins Arbogast. He had early schooling locally but then worked his family's land and served as a local constable. For whatever reason, he determined...
Alfred Armstrong was born on February 14, 1801 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the grandson of Revolutionary War general and founding member of the Dickinson College board of trustees, John Armstrong. He attended local schools and graduated from Dickinson with the class of 1823. A classical scholar,...
Richard Armstrong was born in Turbotville, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania on April 13, 1805. He entered Dickinson College with the class of 1827 and upon graduation entered the Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained by the Baltimore Presbytery on October 7, 1831 and a month later...
Milton Baron Asbell was born on August 23, 1913 in Camden, New Jersey and attended his local city schools, graduating from Camden High School in 1931. He enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in September 1933 in the class of 1937. After a freshman year in which he attained the...
Robert N. Baer was born on April 12, 1834 in Baltimore, Maryland. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1858, was elected to the Union Philosophical Society, and graduated with his class. Following this he studied as a clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal...
Spencer Fullerton Baird was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on February 3, 1823 to Samuel Baird and Lydia McFunn Biddle, the third of seven children. The family relocated to Carlisle, Pennsylvania following the death of Baird's father from cholera in 1833. Baird entered Dickinson College as a...
Birth: January, 30 1830; Mifflinburg, Union County, Pennsylvania
Death: May 15, 1864 (age 34); Atlanta Campaign
Military service: CSA, 1861-64
Unit: 3rd Tennessee Regiment "Clark's Regiment"
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1850)
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Daniel Moore Bates was born in Laurel, Delaware on January 28, 1821 as Daniel Elzey Moore, the son of Methodist minister Jacob Moore. He had lost his mother very early in life and as a young boy traveled with his father on his circuit. When his father died in 1829 he was still only eight and he...
Birth: January 24, 1824; Baltimore, Maryland
Death: November 13, 1865 (age 41); Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, Virginia
Military service: Mexican War, 1847-49 (Surgeon); USN, 1861-63 (Surgeon)
Unit: - -
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1842);...
Henry Lewis Baugher was born in Abbottstown, Adams County, Pennsylvania on July 19, 1804 to tanner Christian Frederick and his wife Ann Catharine Matter Baugher. He was educated in Reverend David McConaughty's school in Gettysburg and entered Dickinson College in 1822. He was admitted to the...
Birth: February 13, 1842; "Wood End," Jefferson County, Virginia
Death: March 6, 1902 (age 60); Charleston, West Virginia
Military Service: CSA, 1861-65
Unit: 2nd Virginia Infantry; 12th Virginia Calvary; Mosby's Rangers
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of...
Birth: May 22, 1819; Hickory Hill, Hague, Westmoreland, Virginia
Death: April 21, 1893 (age 74); Hague, Westmoreland, Virginia; Hickory Hill Cemetery
Military service: CSA, 1861-65
Unit: 9th Virginia Cavalry "Lee's Legion"
Alma Mater: Dickinson College (Class of...
James Burns Belford was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania on September 28, 1837, the son of Samuel and Eliza Belford. He was a cousin of Joseph McCrum Belford, class of 1871, who served a congressman from New York State. He prepared at Lewistown High School and entered Dickinson College in 1855...
Joseph McCrum Belford was born in Mifflintown in Pennsylvania on August 5, 1852 the son of David and Anna Belford. He prepared at the Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1868. While at the College he became a member of Phi Kappa Psi and...
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...
