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Walter Marshall was born in Philadelphia in 1921 and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in September 1939 after his graduation from Collingswood High School in Collingswood, New Jersey. As a member of the class of 1943, "Red" was...
Ernest Dudley Martin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 1, 1843 the second son of William and Sarah Ann Smith Martin. He matriculated at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1864 but did not complete his...
Jack Martin was born in Philadelphia in 1920 and grew up in nearby Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Camp Hill High School in 1938 after three years of varsity football and editing the first yearbook in the high school's history. He...
John Mitchell Mason was born on March 19, 1770 in New York City. He attended Columbia University, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1789. In 1792 Mason succeeded his father as pastor of a small ministry in New York. During his tenure with this...
Wilbur F. Massey was born to James A. and Anne Parker Massey on September 30, 1839 in Onancock, Virginia. He began his studies at Washington College in Maryland and in 1857 entered the Dickinson College class of 1859. Massey was elected to the...
Lewis L. McArthur was born in Portsmouth, Virginia on March 18, 1843. He was the third son of famous naval hydrographer and surveyor Lieutenant Commander William Pope McArthur, USN, and his wife Mary Stone Young McArthur. While commanding the...
Birth: April 28, 1825; Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania
Death: May 7, 1874 (age 49); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Military Service: USA, 1861-65
Unit: 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; 208th Pennsylvania Infantry...
Birth: 1831; Allegany County, Maryland
Death: 1862 (age 31); Battle at Island No. 10 in 1862
Military Service: USA, 1861-62
Unit: ---
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1852)
John McCarty was born...
James Andrew McCauley was born on October 7, 1822 in Cecil County, Maryland to Daniel and Elizabeth McCauley. He prepared for college at the Baltimore Classical Institute in Maryland before entering Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as...
Alexander McClelland was born in Schenectady, New York in 1794; not much else is known about his early life. He studied at Union College, graduating at the age of 15. McClelland then began to study theology under Rev. John Anderson of the...
Robert McClelland was born in Greencastle, Pennsylvania on August 1, 1807, the son of a prominent Franklin County doctor, John McClelland, and his wife, Eleanor Bell McCulloh. The father had studied medicine under Benjamin Rush and perhaps not...
One of ten residence halls that originally made up the College’s Fraternity Quadrangle, McClintock Hall (Quad 5) was first occupied by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in September, 1964. The building was later converted into a coeducational...
John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to...
John Emory McClintock was born on September 19, 1840 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the son of John McClintock and Caroline Augusta Wakeman. His father, a devoted clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, taught mathematics, Greek, and Latin at...
Charles McClure was born on his father's farm at Willow Grove near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His father, Colonel Charles McClure, was currently serving as a member of the board of trustees at the local Dickinson College and his son entered the...
Louis Emory McComas was born October 28, 1846 near Williamsport, Maryland where his father was in the hardware business. He attended Saint James' College and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1866 in 1863. His...
David McConaughy was born on September 29, 1775 in Menallen, Pennsylvania, six miles from Gettysburg in what was then York County. He was tutored locally and attended the Rev. Alexander Dobbin's classical School in Gettysburg. He attended...
Richard McFarland was born into a military family in Washington, D.C. In September 1967 he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 1970 while his father was stationed at the Carlisle Barracks. He did not...
Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania purchased the former residence of Bradford O. McIntire from his estate on June 5, 1948. The house, located on South College Street, cost $15,000, and alterations made afterward cost an additional $6,000...
Dickinson College’s second literary society for women, the McIntire Literary Society, was founded in 1921. It was named in honor of Professor Bradford O. McIntire, who had been teaching at the college for 30 years at the time the society was...
Bradford Oliver McIntire was born April 23, 1856 in York, Maine. He graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. and received his M.A. three years later from the same university. Following graduation he became a professor of English literature...
Built next to the Upper Quads, construction on McKenney Hall began in 1972. McKenney Hall was completed in 1973 and the dedication ceremony was held on October 13th, 1973.
McKenney Hall was named in appreciation of W. Gibbs McKenny ('39),...
James Miller McKim was born November 10, 1810 on a farm near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the second of eight children. Known as Miller McKim, he entered the local Dickinson College at the age of 13 in September 1824. While at Dickinson College, he...
Mordecai McKinney was born in Middletown in central Pennsylvania in 1796. His parents, Mordecai and Mary (Molly) Chambers McKinney, who owned a store in the town, sent him to Dickinson College in Carlisle where he graduated with the class of 1814...
