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Benjamin Lippincott was born the elder son of Crispin Lippincott and his first wife, Mary Ann Wilkins Lippincott, in Haddonfield, New Jersey on July 22, 1827. He prepared for college at the nearby Methodist-affiliated Pennington School. In 1855,...
Joshua A. Lippincott was born in Burlington County, New Jersey on January 31, 1835 to Crispin and Elizabeth Garwood Lippincott. He prepared for college at the Pennington Seminary and enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1855...
Francis (Frank) Sutton Livingston was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 3, 1838. His father was William Townsend Livingston, an American merchant who arrived in the port city in that decade and settled into business as a shipper, wool...
Dickinson College acquired this house on West Pomfret Street, formerly the home of Samuel M. Hepburn, on May 16, 1893, for $5,000, the mortgage being signed by President George E. Reed and Professors Henry C. Whiting and Bradford O. McIntire. A...
James Loenshal was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on August 17, 1923 and graduated from Hollidaysburg High School in 1941. He entered the College in the autumn with the class of 1945. He played on the basketball team and was a member of Phi Delta...
Henry Logan was born on June 22, 1889 in Carrol Township, York County, Pennsylvania to John N. and Ella Mae Coover Logan. He attended York High School, graduating in 1906, and then entered Dickinson College. At Dickinson, he became involved in...
John Long was from Manheim, Pennsylvania and, after high school at East Hempfield, he entered Dickinson in September 1937. He graduated four years later with the class of 1941. He was a member of the Mohler Scientific Club, the Glee Club, the...
One of ten residence halls that originally made up the College’s Fraternity Quadrangle, Longsdorff Hall (Quad 6) first opened its doors to students in September 1964. Longsdorff, one of the six “upper quads,” first served as home to the Beta...
Zatae Longsdorff was born on April 16, 1866, the second of six children of William Henry and Lydia R. Haverstick Longsdorff of Centerville, Pennsylvania, a few miles southwest of Carlisle. William Henry, a physician, was a Dickinson graduate of...
Harold H. Longsdorff was born in Bellevue, Nebraska on July 28, 1858. He was the eldest child and only son of William H. Longsdorff, Dickinson class of 1856, and Lydia R. Haverstick Longsdorff. When Harold Longsdorff was still a babe in arms, the...
William H. Longsdorff was born in Silver Spring Township, near Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania on March 24, 1834. He was the fourth of seven children born to Adam and Mary Senseman Longsdorff. His father was a farmer and later served as Cumberland...
Charles Lore was born in Odessa, Delaware on March 16, 1831 the son of Eldad and Priscilla Henderson Lore. He was prepared at Middletown Academy in Delaware and then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1848. He was a member of...
"Lovers' Lane" was a tree-lined path in the John Dickinson campus at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania that provided a direct route from the main campus entrance at the corner of West and High Streets to East College. The path...
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 1, 1938, Neal Lovsnes was a bachelor of science graduate of the class of 1960. While at Dickinson he was a four-year member of both the basketball and baseball teams, captaining the latter in his last two...
Birth: April 13, 1840; Loudoun County, Virginia
Death: June 27, 1862 (age 22); Battle of Gaines Mill
Military Service: CSA, 1861-62
Unit: Company D, 8th Virginia Infantry
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of...
Originally a storage facility for Byers Lumber Company, the Lumberyard was included in the land purchase made by the College for the construction of the Kline Life/Sports Center. This storage building was later renovated and made into a student...
Nathaniel T. Lupton was born to Nathaniel and Elizabeth Hodgson Lupton on December 30, 1830 near Winchester in Frederick County, Virginia. He received preparation for undergraduate studies at Newark Academy in Delaware. Lupton then entered the...
George Lyon was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on April 11, 1784, the son of William and Margaret Lyon. His father had been one of the patentees of the 1773 school and was a prominent Carlisle Presbyterian. Lyon attended the local Dickinson...
The College Mace of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was adopted at a special convocation ceremony there on Parents' Day, October 13, 1951. In the words of then President William W. Edel, the mace was to be "the symbol of the corporate...
Robert Samuel Maclay was born on February 2, 1824 in Concord, Pennsylvania, the son of Robert Maclay and Annabella Erwin Maclay, one of nine children. His parents were highly respected members of the community, running a tanning business and...
Robert Magaw was born in Ireland in 1738. His family moved to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and became prominent in local affairs around Carlisle. His brother Samuel was a Presbyterian minister who served as the Provost of the University of...
Built as a dormitory for men, Malcolm Hall was completed in September 1966 and dedicated on May 6, 1967. It was designed by Elmer H. Adams and constructed at a cost of $475,000.
The building, situated on the former site of the Beta Theta...
Gilbert Malcolm was born in New York City on October 13, 1892 to Scottish immigrants, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Duff Malcolm. Growing up in the city where his father was a well-known contractor, he attended the Horace Mann School. Among his young...
Howard Malcom was born on January 19, 1799 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to John J. and Deborah Howard Malcom. He entered DickinsonCollege in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1813 as a part of the class of 1816 but never graduated as the College...
Peter Marco was born in 1910 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, the son of Italian immigrants. He graduated from Birdsboro High School in 1929 and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania soon after. He graduated with the class of 1932 and...