James Henry Jarrett was born in Jarrettsville, Maryland on February 23, 1832 to Luther and Julia A. Jarrett. The town was known as Carman at the time of his birth. His father was a substantial landowner there and the first postmaster, however, and the postal name of the town was changed to Jarrettsville in 1838. The younger Jarrett entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1849 with the class of 1852 and was elected to the Union Philosophical Society. He left the College in 1850 to enroll at the University of Maryland Medical School, where he earned his degree in 1852 and returned home to practice.

Jarrett was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates from his home area, serving one term from 1855 to 1856. When the Civil War broke out, he declared his intentions to join the Union cause, much to the consternation of his family and the local population. His younger brother, also a physician, served with the Confederate First Maryland Cavalry. Jarrett persisted, however, and mustered into Purnell's Maryland Legion as assistant surgeon in October 1861, transferring in August 1863 to the Seventh Maryland Infantry as surgeon. In December 1863, he became acting surgeon-in-chief of his division, the Third of the First Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac. He mustered out as a major on May 5, 1864.

John Jeremiah Jacob was born on December 9, 1829 in Hampshire County, Virginia (presently West Virginia) to Captain John J. Jacob and Susan (McDavitt) Jacob. From his early childhood, John Jeremiah Jacob was well-educated. In his youth, he attended the Romney Academy in Hampshire County and the classical institute in Hampshire. He later matriculated to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. While at Dickinson, he was a member of the Union Philosophical Society. He was also co-editor with Moncure Conway and Marcus Parrott of the pioneering student publication at the College, the Collegian. He graduated with his class in 1849. Upon graduation, John Jeremiah Jacob returned home where he taught at a local Hampshire school and practiced law. His next three years passed in this manner until in 1853, he was offered and accepted a position at the University of Missouri. While at Missouri, he served as the professor of logic and political economy. He remained in this position until the outbreak of the Civil War when he opened a law practice in Missouri.

Birth: March 25, 1842; Berwick, Pennsylvania

Death: May 13, 1880 (age 38); Berwick, Pennsylvania

Military Service: USA, 1861-65

Unit: Company H, 84th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1860)

Clarence G. Jackson was one of the sons of self-made heavy manufacturer M. W. Jackson and his first wife, Margaret Gearhart Jackson. The younger Jackson grew up in Berwick and at fourteen attended the Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport. He then enrolled in Dickinson College, Pennsylvania at the age of sixteen with the class of 1860. He was elected to the Belles Lettres Society and graduated with honors along with his class.

Birth: 1818; Mifflin County, Pennsylvania

Death: January 17, 1886 (age 65); Anchorage, Kentucky

Military Service: Mexican War, 1847-48; USA, 1861-65

Unit: 11th U.S. Infantry"Juniata Guards", "Logan Guards", 7th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 49th Pennsylvania Infantr, 2nd Division of the VI Corps

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1840 non-graduate)

William Howard Irwin was born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania in 1818. He enrolled with the class of 1840 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the fall of 1836. He was elected as a member of the Union Philosophical Society but left the College after two years to study law at home in Lewistown where he was called to the bar in 1842. In 1843 he married a widow named mar Edmiston Mitchell. His stepson, William Galbraith Mitchell served with him during the civil war, leaving the war as a brevet brigadier general.

William Irvine was born of Scots-Irish parents in Fermanaugh, Ireland on November 3, 1741. He attended Trinity College in Dublin and afterwards studied medicine. He became a Royal Navy surgeon and served at sea in the Seven Years' War.

He settled in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1764 to practice medicine. When the Revolutionary War broke out he raised the 7th Pennsylvania Regiment and participated in the invasion of Canada where he was captured at Three Rivers. He was exchanged in 1778 and fought at the Battle of Monmouth. Promoted to Brigadier General, he was given command of the western frontier area and was headquartered at Fort Pitt where he served until the end of the war.

After the establishment of the new government, Irvine served in various posts, many involving the distribution of land, and he attended the Continental Congress in 1787. He later represented Cumberland County in the U.S. Congress and commanded Pennsylvania troops in the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion. His final post was as superintendent of military stores in Philadelphia.

Irvine was one of the original nine trustees to whom the deed for the building of a school in Carlisle had been entrusted. When the Dickinson College charter was passed in the Legislature, six of the nine became trustees of the College. Irvine was one of these and he served until his death.

During his early days in Carlisle, he married Anne Callender. He died in Philadelphia on July 29, 1804.

Hobart Irelan was from Atlantic City, New Jersey and enrolled at Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 1919. He studied the Philosophical course and participated in an array of campus activities, including the Y.M.C.A., Belles Lettres Literary Society, the Kappa Sigma fraternity, and his class basketball team. A promising musician, he participated in the Glee Club and the College Band. He left his studies at the end of the 1917-1918 academic year to enlist in the military.

Irelan served as a corporal in the Chemical Warfare Service and died on October 18, 1918.

John A. Inglis was born in Baltimore, Maryland on August 26, 1813, the son of well known Presbyterian minister James Inglis, then pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in the city. He entered Dickinson College and graduated with the class of 1829 and then taught school for a time in Carlisle, eventually studying law and relocating to South Carolina.

Inglis opened a law practice in Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina and took on Henry McIver, later a Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, as a partner. Their small wooden law office still stands in the town, having been preserved and moved to a new location as one of the few buildings in town to survive the Civil War. As devout as his father, he also served as principal of Cheraw Academy and as an elder in the local church. He became one of the four chancellors of the state courts of South Carolina. In 1860, Chesterfield County was a leading voice in the succession crisis and sent Inglis to the South Carolina Convention in December, 1860 as one of its three delegates. He was named chair of the seven man Ordinance Committee and, therefore, he was responsible for drawing up the Ordinance of Secession that the convention passed on a vote of 169-0 on Thursday, December 20, 1860. Though himself a committed secessionist, Inglis later denied being the sole author of the one page document as did fellow member Judge Francis Wardlaw.

Born on August 14, 1945, Carl Hynek was from Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. He graduated from La Salle College High School in Philadelphia and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the fall of 1963 with the class of 1967. He became a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity during his two years but left the College in 1965.

He arrived in South Vietnam in July 4, 1967. Private First Class Hynek was killed in action on October 5, 1967 by automatic weapons fire while fighting as a parachute infantryman with the 101st Airborne in Quang Nam province. He received the posthumous promotion to the rank of corporal.

Known during his time at Dickinson as Abe L. Hymowitz*, Hymes was born in New York City in February 1914 and graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1932 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with the class of 1935. While at the College, Hymes was a member of Sigma Tau Phi fraternity. He then studied medicine at New York University and earned his M.D. in June 1939.

A reserve medical officer straight from medical school, Hymes was called to active service after completing his internship in June 1941; he was assigned to the U.S. Army Air Corps. After service in South Carolina, he left for the South Pacific in January 1942. He lost his life on December 31, 1942, when the aircraft in which he was flying from Port Moresby, New Guinea to Australia was shot down into the sea.

When Dickinson's Alumni Gymnasium was converted into the Weiss Center for the Arts in the early 1980s, Leopold Cohen, class of 1935, donated funds for the dedication of a lecture hall to be known as the Hymes Room in honor of his lost friend and classmate.

* Later alumni lists refer to Abe L. Hymowitz but by 1939 he had changed his name to Hymes.

Oscar Hykes was born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania on March 13, 1894. He had entered the Conway Hall at nearby Dickinson College in 1914 and later studied the Philosophical course at Dickinson as a member of the class of 1918. While at the College he was a member of Belles Lettres Literary Society and Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He also studied transportation at the Wharton School and began work with the Pennsylvania Railroad just before he enlisted in the U.S. Army in the spring of 1918.

He trained at Camp Lee, Virginia until May 1918 when he was assigned to the 37th Division's 146th Infantry Regiment and joined the fourth platoon of Company H in that unit. The 37th left Hoboken, New Jersey on June 15, 1918 and arrived in France a week later. Private Hykes went into action first in the Vosges Mountains in August 1918 and then the 37th joined the Meuse-Argonne battles on September 20, 1918. On September 28, Company H was advancing up a dirt road when an shell struck a small group of the fourth platoon in the rear of the column. They had stopped to refill their canteens at a roadside spring. Oscar Maclay Hykes was seriously wounded and died September 30, 1918 in a field hospital. His body was returned to Shippensburg after the war and buried in Spring Hill Cemetery. The Shippensburg American Legion Post 223, organized in 1919, was named for the fallen infantryman.