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Reverend Eugene Allen Noble was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 5, 1865. He prepared for college at Trinity School in New York City and went on to the Centenary Collegiate Institute in Hackettstown, New Jersey. He received a Ph.B. from...
Wilbur Harrington Norcross was born June 28, 1882 in Ralston, Pennsylvania. He attended Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania for two years before matriculating into Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a student in 1905. At...
Birth: May 20, 1803; Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
Death: March 22, 1864 (age 61); Memphis, Tennessee
Military Service: USA, 1861-64
Unit: Paymaster
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1824)
William...
The reopening of the College in 1821 sparked the undertaking of major renovations to the campus. One of these renovations included the construction of a woodhouse and an icehouse to the north of West College in 1822. The woodhouse, built at a...
Sydney Novell was from Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from high school. He spent two years at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the Ph.B. course as a member of the class of 1939. He was a member of Phi Epsilon Pi...
John Och was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in November 1914. He graduated from Harrisburg Catholic and entered Dickinson College in nearby Carlisle with the class of 1937. He pursued a scientific degree, competed on the track team, and was a...
Jurgen Von Oertzen was a German student who attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1933-1934 and earned a bachelor's degree with the class of 1934 on June 11, 1934. From Mecklenburg in northern Germany, he was a student at the...
Constructed in 1781 to house the Latin School which was under the care of the Presbyterian congregation in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, "Old College" fronted on Liberty Alley on Town Lot #219, the lot donated by Thomas and John Penn on March 3, 1773....
The first gymnasium of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was completed in 1885, and was made possible by a gift from Clemuel Ricketts Woodin. The building was designed by Charles L. Carson and constructed at a cost of $7,513.28. The...
Omega Psi was a local sorority founded at Dickinson College in 1899. A national sorority, Chi Omega, adopted the organization in 1907.
During the early twentieth century, hazing was on the rise on many American college campuses. Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was no exception to this increase, with its main concentration founded in an organization called The...
Birth: 1839; New Berlin, Union, Pennsylvania
Death: May 13, 1880 (age 38); Naval Hospital, Washington D.C.
Military Service: USA, 1862
Unit: 142nd PA Infantry
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1859 non-...
Erected in late spring 1871 as part of President Robert Dashiell's ambitious campus improvement campaign at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the pagoda was a pentagonal wooden gazebo that stood near the south wall on the John...
Edward Ernest Palmer was born in Washington DC on November 3, 1868, the son of William G. and Mary Virginia (Webster) Palmer. The boy was named after his uncle Edward Palmer, plant collector and explorer. Young Edward was a diarist whose writing...
Birth: June 29, 1811; Baltimore, Maryland
Death: April 24, 1883 (age 72); Washington, D.C
Military Service: USN, 1834-73
Unit: USS Brandywine; USS Vincennes; Relief; USS Peacock; USS Princeton; H.M.S...
Also known as the “Junior House,” the Parker House was one of three buildings that housed the women of Dickinson College in the first half of the twentieth century. Located on North Hanover Street, it was the former residence of William H....
Andrew Parker was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania on May 21, 1805. He attended local schools and entered the local Dickinson College. He graduated with the class of 1824 and studied law. Parker was admitted to the Cumberland County bar...
Donald Parker was born in New Haven, Connecticut on June 27, 1920. He graduated from Lyman Hall High School in Wallingford in the spring of 1938. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1943 on September 21, 1939...
Wellington Parlin was born in Des Moines, Iowa on January 19, 1899. He graduated from Simpson College in 1921 with a bachelor of arts degree and continued at the University of Iowa where he earned his master of sciences degree in 1922. He taught...
Marcus Junius Parrott was born on October 29, 1828 in Hamburg, South Carolina, the son of a wealthy Quaker family. His parents left the South when he was a young boy and he grew up in Dayton, Ohio. He was prepared at the Dayton Academy, and went...
Gaylord Patterson was born in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania on August 18, 1866. He attended Allegheny College but graduated in 1888 from Ohio Wesleyan University. He then earned his Ph.D. from Yale and other degrees from the Boston University...
James J. Patterson was born in Philadelphia on June 22, 1838, the son of John and Ellen Van Dyke Patterson. He grew up in rural Juniata County near Academia where his family had taken up farming and local business. He attended local schools and...
William F. Patton was born in Curwensville, Pennsylvania one of four sons of the wealthy John and Honora J. Patton. He prepared for his undergraduate work at the Dickinson Preparatory School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and entered the College in...
John Peach was born in the family home "Ash Grove" near Mitchellville, in Prince George's County, Maryland on April 18, 1835, the son of Samuel and Caroline Hamilton Peach. He prepared at a private school nearby and entered the class of 1854 at...
Birth: March 14, 1831; Prince George’s County, Maryland
Death: July3, 1862 (age 31); Lumpkin, Georgia
Military Service: CSA, 1861-62
Unit: ---
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1852)
Samuel Peach...