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Birth: July 13, 1834; Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania
Death: March 24, 1864 (age 30); Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania
Military Service: USA, 1861-63
Unit: U.S. Volunteers
Alma Mater: Dickinson...
Milton Fussell was born on April 20, 1923 and grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Swarthmore High School he entered Dickinson in the fall of 1941, and became a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Then he enlisted in the...
Richard Galt was born in February 1924 in Egypt, where his father was dean of the American University in Cairo. His father later moved on to Susquehanna College and it was from Selinsgrove that Galt entered Dickinson with the class of 1945. After...
Birth: March, 1841; Moorefield, West Virginia
Death: October 29, 1864 (age 23); Beverly, West Virginia
Military Service: CSA, 1861-64
Unit: 62nd Mounted Infantry Regiment Virginia
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (...
Francis Dunlap Gamewell was born in Camden, South Carolina on August 31, 1857 to John and Sarah Gamewell. The family moved to New Jersey during the Civil War, and young Gamewell was prepared for college at the academy in Hackensack. He then...
The Delta Rho Chapter of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority was founded at Dickinson College in May 1980. An organization that strove “for the highest type of womanhood,” the chapter dissolved in 1986.
Gamma Zeta, a local sorority, was founded in 1896. The group appears only once in Dickinson College records, with a photograph of its members (as shown) and a list of their names in the 1897 Microcosm.
George Tankard Garrison was born the son of James R. Garrison and Susan P. Tankard Garrison in Accomac County on Virginia's "eastern shore" on January 14, 1835. He enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1854. A...
Charles H. Gere was born near Gainesville in Wyoming County, New York on February 18, 1838. He was the son of Horatio Nelson and Julia Delay Grant Gere. Charles Gere was educated at public schools and at the Oxford Academy, in Oxford, New York....
William Wood Gerhard was born on July 23, 1809 to a Moravian Brethren hatter and his wife in Philadelphia. William, the eldest child, was educated at home and in local schools; as a voracious reader he was able to enter Dickinson College with the...
Elbridge H. Gerry was born in York County, Pennsylvania in the borough of Shrewsbury on October 18, 1836 to James and Salome Hoffman Gerry. His father was prominent Methodist and Democrat in the area and three years after his son was born served...
Birth: May 13, 1834; Frederick County, Maryland
Death: May 12, 1909 (age 74); Waxahachie, Texas
Military Service: CSA, 1861-65
Unit: Company E, 12th Texas Cavalry
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1858); M....
Alexander Severus Gibbons was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia on September 9, 1822, the sixth child of twelve and third son born to John and Jane Elizabeth Keffer Gibbons. Known to his family and friends as "Sandy," he attended the Dickinson...
The College acquired the Gibbs House, the former home and carriage house of John Hays, in June 1939. The house is located on North Hanover Street, approximately five blocks from the college campus. An endowment from Rebecca McClure Gibbs enabled...
John Gibson was born on November 8, 1780 at what is now Gibson’s Mill, in the Shearman’s Valley of Perry County, Pennsylvania. His father, Colonel George Gibson, was one of the 637 killed at the defeat of Major General Arthur St. Clair on the...
Otis Gibson was born in Moira, New York in 1825. In September 1850, he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1854. A big man, while at the College he was elected to the Belles Lettres Society and fell under the...
Hyman Goldstein was born on April 14, 1891 to Russian immigrant merchant Abraham B. Goldstein and Rebecca Berge in the coal mining town of Portage, Pennsylvania. He prepared at Conway Hall and entered Dickinson College with the class of 1915. He...
James Gooding entered Dickinson in 1911 as a member of the class of 1915, but he withdrew in 1913. In the First World War, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and died at Cape May, New Jersey.
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Lydia Gooding was born on December 27, 1890, the second daughter of William Lambert Gooding, Dickinson class of 1874, and Kathleen Moore Gooding, a native of Wyoming, Delaware. Lydia graduated from Dickinson College in 1910, her father having...
On December 22, 1851, William Lambert Gooding was born to William and Lydia A. Gooding on the family farm in Galena, Maryland. When he was nineteen years old William Lambert’s father died, and it was discovered the elder Gooding had purchased a...
The Goodyear Building is a three story brick building standing at 595 West Louther Street. It was built in 1891 by John Lindner, owner of the Lindner Shoe Company, to house his factory. For nearly thirty years the factory produced fine women’s...
Birth: June 16, 1837; Gwinette County, Georgia
Death: April 28, 1874 (age 37); Lawrenceville, Georgia
Military Service: CSA, 1861-65
Unit: Company A, "Prairie Rovers," of the Eighth Texas Cavalry Regiment "Terry's Texas...
Ferdinand Gorgas was born in Winchester, Virginia to John DeLancy and Mary Ann Gorgas on July 27, 1835. He prepared for his undergraduate years at the Dickinson College Grammar School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and then entered the college proper...
John Goucher was born on June 7, 1845 in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania to Dr. John and Eleanor Townsend Goucher. He was raised in Pittsburgh, and attended local schools before entering Dickinson College. While at Dickinson, Goucher was a member of the...
Birth: March 8, 1839; Mount Jackson, Virginia
Death: May 31, 1871 (age 83); February 28, 1922 in Woodstock, Virginia
Military Service: CSA, 1861-65
Unit: Company G of the 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry "Grabill's Company";...