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Robert Kennedy was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1778, the ninth of the twelve children of James and Jane Maxwell Kennedy. He was educated in local and classical schools and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania...
Caleb Burwell Rowan Kennerly was born to Reverend Thomas Kennerly and Ann Susan Carnegy in 1829. Kennerly grew up on his family’s Greenway Court estate in White Post, Virginia. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class...
Andrew Kerr IV was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming on October 7, 1878 the son of Andrew and Mary Elizabeth Kerr. His family moved east to Carlisle, Pennsylvania and the young Kerr attended most of his secondary schooling there. He entered the local...
Born on February 21, 1880 in Somerton, Pennsylvania, George Henry Ketterer attended Dickinson Preparatory School before enrolling in the College in 1904. After graduating from Dickinson with a B.A. degree in 1908, he attended Drew Theological...
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...
Birth: December 22, 1837; Portland, Maine
Death: November 15, 1918 (age 81);Brooklyn, New York
Military Service: USA, 1861-65
Unit: Army of the Potomac, First Cavalry Division of the Army of the Shenandoah
Alma Mater:...
Birth: 1837; Blacksburg, Virginia
Death: July 15, 1864 (age 29); Point Lookout Prison, Maryland
Military Service: CSA, 1861-64
Unit: Company L, 4th Virginia Infantry
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1860...
Kisner-Woodward Hall was the first building at Dickinson College designed to be a coed dormitory, and was first occupied by students in April 1969. This student residence was named for Hugh B. Woodward and Helen Kisner Woodward, both members of...
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Kline Life/Sports Learning Center, built to replace the Alumni Gymnasium, took place on May 18, 1979. The facility was opened in September 1980 and officially dedicated during Homecoming Weekend on October 25...
John Krebs was born in Hagerstown, Maryland on May 6, 1804, the son of William and Ann Adamson Krebs. The senior Krebs was a merchant and postmaster in the town and John received his early education there before he went to work as a clerk in his...
Roy Kuebler was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania on October 10, 1911 to Roy R. Kuebler and Tillye Cleaver Traub. He entered Dickinson College with the class of 1933 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. While at the College he was the president of Omicron...
J. Banks Kurtz was born in Delaware Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania on October 31, 1867 as the son of Abraham Hertzler and Molly Bergey Kurtz. He attended local schools and prepared for college at the Airy View Academy in Port Royal and...
Willard Geoffrey Lake was born to Alvin and Amelia Haight Lake in Moravia, New York on November 26, 1863. He prepared for college at the Pennington Seminary in New Jersey and entered Dickinson with the class of 1887 in the fall of 1883. Known as...
Birth: February 25, 1844; Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Death: June 9, 1912 (age 68); Washington, D.C.
Military Service: USN, 1861-65
Unit: Asiatic Squadron, South Atlantic Squadron
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A...
The College acquired Landis House, the former home of Merkel and Mary Lamberton Landis, on January 25, 1968, at a cost of $26,000. The house is located on the southeast corner of Pomfret and College Streets, across from the Benjamin Rush Campus....
Merkel Landis was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to John B. and Barbara Merkel Landis on January 5, 1875. During his youth he lived at 136 North College Street and attended Carlisle High School and the Dickinson Preparatory School. Officially...
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...
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...
Benjamin Latrobe was born in Fulneck, England on May 1, 1764. His father, also named Benjamin, was a Moravian and ran a school in Fulneck that attracted pupils from as far away as the American Colonies. The elder Benjamin married one of his...
Marion Dexter Learned was born on July 10, 1857, near Dover, Delaware, the son of Hervey and Mary Learned. Learned's family was of early English and Welsh colonial background. He prepared for college at the Wilmington Conference Academy, and then...
John H. Lease was born in Newport, Pennsylvania to John and Christina Lease on July 5, 1832. He prepared for college at the Pennington School in New Jersey, then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, just thirty miles from his home...
"The Liberty Song" was written in 1768 when John Dickinson set out to reflect on the political strife caused by the Townshend Acts of 1767, the latest in a series of British crown taxes levied on the Colonies. Dickinson wrote the words to fit the...
The Library Guild of Dickinson College was formed on February 20, 1903 after a suggestion from Professor Bradford O. McIntire and was authorized by the Board of Trustees on March 5, 1903 to build an endowment for the purchase of books for the...
Donald Liggitt was from York, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from William Penn High School. He entered the College in 1941 but enlisted in the Army Air Corps in the autumn of 1942.
He attended officer candidate school in Florida and...
Mary Line Todd was born on June 15, 1897 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She attended the Peabody Conservatory, where she joined Chi Omega, and later became a teacher in the Carlisle School District. On June 6, 1950, she married Glenn E. Todd, a...