Charles Francis Himes was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on June 2, 1838 to William D. and Magdalen Lanius Himes. He attended the New Oxford Collegiate and Medical Institute in Adams County, Pennsylvania, before entering Dickinson College in the spring of 1853 as a sophomore. He was a founding member of the College's Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. After graduating in 1855, Himes taught mathematics and natural sciences at the Wyoming Conference Academy in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. A year later he moved to the Midwest to teach at public schools in Missouri and Illinois, but shortly thereafter returned to the east to accept a position at the Baltimore Female College.

In 1860, he was appointed professor of mathematics at Troy University in Troy, New York, teaching there for three years. Himes enrolled at the University of Giessen in the Hesse region of Germany in 1863, earning his Ph.D. after two years of study. Upon his return to the United States, he was named professor of natural science at Dickinson College, a position which he would hold for three decades.

Samuel Dickinson Hillman was born to Samuel and Susan Dickinson Hillman of Blackwood, New Jersey, on January 18, 1825. Not much is known of his life before he entered the Dickinson College Grammar School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1845. A member of the Belles Lettres Literary Society, Hillman graduated from the College in 1850, and received his master's degree two years later. While working towards this degree, he taught in West Chester, Pennsylvania from 1850 to 1851. Hillman was then appointed principal of the Grammar School, an office he would occupy for nine years.

In 1860, Hillman was selected by the College to serve as professor of mathematics and astronomy. Two years later he became the treasurer for the Board of Trustees, and he would remain so until 1868. By April 1868, Hillman was residing in West College as the senior faculty member; however, President Herman Merrills Johnson died suddenly at that time, and Hillman was selected to serve as president pro tempore due to his seniority.

Like William Henry Allen before him, Hillman was a temporary replacement not to be considered a candidate for the presidency. When a special trustee meeting of September 8, 1868 selected Robert L. Dashiell as president, Hillman returned to his position as professor. He would remain with the College for another six years.

Birth: September 20, 1832; Flourtown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
 

Death: May 11, 1874 (age 42); Bridgeville, Delaware

Military Service: USA, 1863-65

Unit:  6th Regiment of Delaware Volunteers

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

Charles Heydrick was born in Flourtown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. While  at Dickinson he was a member of Belles Lettres Society and after graduating took a teaching position in Oakland, Maryland and then in Bridgeville, Delaware. After relocating to Delaware, he married Sarah "Salllie" P. Cannon, the sister of William Laws Cannon, a fellow dickinsonian who had graduated with him, on January 21, 1863.  

On July 1, 1863, at the age of 30, he joined the United States Army as a captain of the 6th regiment of Delaware Volunteers. He died on May 11, 1874 in Bridgeville, Delaware.

For more information the Delaware State Archives, Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs, Dover, Delaware, 19901 contains Heydrick's diary and small manuscripts mostly dealing with agriculture.

Francis Herron was born on June 28, 1774 near Shippensburg in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He enrolled at nearby Dickinson College and graduated in 1794. He was determined on a career in the Presbyterian ministry, and so studied theology under his pastor Robert Cooper, and was licensed by the Carlisle Presbytery in October 1797.

His immediate work began as a missionary, moving through Pittsburgh and then west through the backwoods of Ohio as far as present day Chillocothe. He also made a name for himself by camping several nights with the Native Americans, who were then numerous around what is today the town of Marietta, Ohio. Despite being asked to lead several congregations in the west, Herron eventually was installed as pastor of the Rock Spring Church, closer to his home, in April 1800. After ten years of service in Cumberland County, he did return, however, as he was appointed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh in June 1811. The remainder of his service was spent in that city.

Martin Herman was born on February 14, 1841 on the farm his German immigrant great-grandfather had cleared in 1771 near New Kingston, Pennsylvania. He was one of the six children of Martin and Elizabeth Wolford Herman. He prepared for college at the York County Academy under George Ruby and entered the class of 1862 at Dickinson College in September 1858. His brother, David Herman, was a member of the class of 1865. While at the College, Martin was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and active in the Belles Lettres Society, for whom he was chosen to deliver the 76th anniversary oration in 1862; he also received the Silver Junior Prize Medal for oratory the year before. He graduated with his class and entered the study of law with William Miller of Carlisle.

Herman was called to the Cumberland County bar in January 1864 and opened a practice in Carlisle. While still in his thirties, he was elected as the president judge of the Ninth Judicial District of Pennsylvania taking office in January 1874 and serving till 1884. After this he continued his lucrative practice in Carlisle.

Martin Herman married Josie Adair of Carlisle on June 5, 1873 and the couple had four children. He also served a term on the board of trustees of Dickinson from 1877 to 1878. In late 1895 he suffered a stroke while in court and died at home in Carlisle after a lingering illness on January 18, 1896. He was fifty-five years old.

David Benjamin Herman was born in Silver Spring Township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania on December 29, 1844. He entered Dickinson College in nearby Carlisle and graduated with the class of 1865. While at the College, Herman had been active in the Belles Lettres Society and was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma. He studied law in Carlisle with his elder brother, Michael Christian Herman of the Dickinson class of 1862, and was admitted to the Cumberland County bar in January 1867 although he left for the western territories that same spring.

Herman quickly engaged himself in the cattle trade in Iowa and expanded his operations into Nebraska with the opening of the territory during those years. The natives of the Plains did not submit without a fight, and in the climactic year of the wars that followed, 1876, David Herman was killed by hostile Lakota Sioux on the North Platte River on May 20, just a month before Crook's defeat at the Rosebud and Custer's disaster at the Little Big Horn. Family information indicated that he was intending to end his business and return to Carlisle. He was killed on December 29, 1876. He was thirty-one years old.

John Herdic graduated from high school in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He entered Dickinson with the class of 1944 but withdrew to enlist in July 1942. Before leaving he became of member of Chi Phi fraternity. Herdic trained in Texas as a bombardier, earning his wings and commission in June 1943. He then trained as a navigator in New Mexico before being assigned to overseas duty in early 1944.

Herdic joined General Claire Chenault's command in the Burma-China theater, flying a B-25 as a bombardier and navigator. On his penultimate mission before completing the fifty which would see him serve out his combat tour, Herdic's aircraft was lost in action on January 19, 1945.

Elmer Charles Herber was born on January 26, 1900 in New Tripoli, Pennsylvania to Alfred and Amanda Sigler Herber. He graduated from Kutztown State College in 1920 and Ursinus College in 1925. In 1929, Herber received his M.S. in zoology from University of Pennsylvania. Later, in 1941, he obtained his Ph. D., from Johns Hopkins University.

Herber began his career teaching high school mathematics and science. He then came to Dickinson College in 1929 as an instructor in biology. In 1955 he became chair of that department. Herber was well known among his students for his class field trips and hands-on experiments in the laboratory. He was also a supporter of the campus chapter of Sigma Chi. He retired from the College in 1967 after thirty-eight years of teaching.

Herber was a prominent researcher in parasitology and tropical medicines, winning various grants to continue his work. In 1939 he identified a parasitic fluke in birds which became known as Cercaria herbaria, and in 1961 he received a NIH grant to study tropical medicine in Central America. Herber published much of his research in over twenty-five publications. His forerunner in the biology department, Spencer Fullerton Baird, class of 1840, intrigued Herber; with the help of the American Philosophical Society in 1952, he published Correspondence Between Spencer Fullerton Baird and Louis Agassi – Two Pioneer American Naturalists.

A native of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area, David Hepford graduated from Lower Paxton High School and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 1937 in the fall of 1933. He participated in a variety of activities ranging from golf to singing third tenor in the Glee Club.

He edited the Dickinsonian in his senior year, served as president of the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Newspaper Association, and represented the United States in the League of Youth Conference held at Geneva in Switzerland in the summer of 1937. During that travel he interviewed various public figures, including Benito Mussolini in Rome. In all, he became one of the most outstanding journalists in Dickinson's extra-curricular history.

Hepford enlisted in the army at the outbreak of war and was stationed for two years as a sergeant in Harrisburg at the Selective Service Headquarters. During this time he was active in civic matters and was vice president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. He was killed in an automobile accident on April 11, 1943, crossing the street in front of his home.

Andrew Dousa Hepburn was born the eldest son of Samuel and Rebecca Williamson Hepburn in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. His family moved soon after to Carlisle, Pennsylvania so that his father could complete his legal training under Judge John Reed at the local Dickinson College. Andrew grew up in Carlisle where his father became a district judge. He himself enrolled as an undergraduate at Dickinson in 1845 with the class of 1849. He was elected to the Union Philosophical Society but left the College to enroll at Jefferson College in western Pennsylvania where he graduated in 1851. He then attended the University of Virginia and finally went on to complete seminary studies at Princeton Theological in 1857.