Harmar Denny was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 13, 1794, the eldest son of Nancy Wilkins and Ebenezer Denny. Nancy Wilkins was a sister to William Wilkins, who also attended Dickinson College and rose to the United States Cabinet under President John Tyler. Ebenezer Denny was a Revolutionary War soldier and the first mayor of Pittsburgh. Harmar, named after a fellow officer of his father, was schooled in his home city and then entered Dickinson College. He graduated with the class of 1813.

Charles Denison was born on January 23, 1838 in Kingston, Pennsylvania to a prominent Luzerne County family. His grandfather was second in command of American forces in the battle of Wyoming Valley, and his uncle, George Denison, served in Congress. Charles Denison was educated locally and then entered Dickinson College with the class of 1838 when it reopened in 1834 under Methodist auspices. He was elected as a member of the Union Philosophical Society and studied law after he graduated.

Denison was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1840 and opened a practice in Wilkes-Barre. He was elected as a Democrat to Congress three times from the 12th District of Pennsylvania, serving from 1863 to 1867 in the 38th, 39th, and 40th Congresses. Denison was also a Pennsylvania delegate to the 1864 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that nominated George McClellan for president and endorsed a negotiated peace with the Confederate States.

Charles Denison died in office at home in Wilkes-Barre on June 27, 1867 and was buried in the Forty Fort Cemetery in Kingston. He was forty-nine years old.

Rae DeMatteis was born and raised in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he and his older brother, Michael DeMatteis, Class of 1942, attended Altoona High School. He spent a year and a half at Dickinson College, participating with his brother in varsity soccer before leaving in December, 1942 to train as an aviator.

DeMatteis was assigned to the 15th Air Force in Italy. On March 22, 1945, he was participating in one of the epic 1500 mile round trip flights from Foggia to Berlin when his aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire over Ruhland. With a damaged plane, the crew intended to attempt a crash landing behind advancing Russian lines but they were hit by further fighter attack, forcing them to bail out. Some members of the crew survived but DeMatteis was not found among them. He was reported missing in action as of March 22, 1945, four months before his twentieth birthday, and is presumed to have perished in the crash. Despite the best efforts of his family, to this day the full circumstances of Lt. DeMatteis' disappearance have not been ascertained.

Samuel Deinard was born on January 25, 1872 in Rossein, Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire) to David Mendel and Taube Leah Deinard. Deinard spent some of his childhood in Palestine where he attended schools in Jerusalem. He also attended a normal school in Cologne, Germany where he prepared for entry into the University of Heidelberg. By 1894 he was in the United States where he enrolled first at the University of Pennsylvania and then, in 1895, entered the class of 1897 at Dickinson College. Leaving Dickinson after one year, he earned his bachelor's degree at De Pauw University in 1897, his M.A. in 1901 at the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1905.

While at Dickinson, Deinard was elected to membership in the Belles Lettres Society and quickly acquired the nickname "Rabbi." His class yearbook described him as "patriarchal" in appearance with a penchant for the phrase "like the Dickens" and noted that much of his spare time was taken up with writing love poetry. This last observation may have had a connection with his withdrawing from the College, since on May 20, 1896 he married Rose Deinard of Kearney, New Jersey. The couple had three children - Amos Spencer, Benedict Spinoza and Miriam Judith.

Charles Force Deems was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 4, 1820, the son of George and Mary Roberts Deems. The family was very pious - his mother was the daughter of a Methodist minister - and from a young age Deems exhibited signs of his future calling, once preaching temperance in public at the age of thirteen. He entered Dickinson College in 1835 with the intention of a career in the law. By the time he graduated in 1839, however, he was well on his way to joining the clergy and entered the Methodist ministry in Asbury, New Jersey.

Soon after, however, Deems began his sojourn in the South when he accepted a post in 1840 as general agent for the American Bible Society of North Carolina. This led to a professorship at the University of North Carolina, teaching logic and rhetoric from 1842 to 1848. He moved on to Randolph-Macon College in Virginia for a year in 1849, teaching natural sciences. At the end of that year he was named as pastor of the Methodist chapel at New Berne, North Carolina. He had barely taken up his duties when he was elected to the presidency of Greensboro (N.C.) Women's College and served there until 1854. He then returned to the New Berne district, concentrating on his pastorate and beginning his writing career in earnest.

William Emory Fisk Deal was born on March 8, 1840 in Calvert County, Maryland to William Grove and Janetta Suttan Deal. He prepared for his undergraduate years at the West River Classical School and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1855 with the class of 1859. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity and was elected as a member of the Belles Lettres Society.

Following graduation in the early summer of 1859, Deal traveled to California where he taught until 1863. He then studied law and embarked on a lucrative career in Virginia City, Nevada. He qualified to argue before the state supreme court in 1865. Deal was a wealthy man by October 1875, when he lost his expensive new home in an exclusive part of town in the great Virginia City Fire. He was a presidential elector in the 1880 election, state commissioner for the care of the insane from 1881 to 1885, and a regent of the University of Nevada between 1884 and 1903. Deal argued a case before the United States Supreme Court with his old Dickinson fraternity brother Horatio Collins King in 1894. After 1903, Deal moved to San Francisco where, in 1905 and 1906, he argued before the California Supreme Court on behalf of the Ophir Silver Mining Company of Virginia City.

In May 1875, Deal married Roberta Griffith of Ann Arundel County, Maryland. The couple had three daughters and a son. W. E. F. Deal died in September 1924. He was eighty-four years old.

John Day, from Concord, Pennsylvania, was a graduate of the Dickinson Law School in 1910, having earned his bachelor of arts degree from Waynesburg College in 1905. While in Carlisle, he represented both the Law School and the College in track, relay, and baseball, and served as a vice-president of the Athletic Association. He was also Editor-in-Chief of the Microcosm, and a member of Delta Chi fraternity.

Day was serving in a machine battalion in France by mid-1918 and died there on September 9, 1918.

Born March 22, 1927, William Davis graduated from Media High School in Media, Pennsylvania in 1945. He served two years with the Fifth Army Air Force before entering Dickinson College with the class of 1951 in September 1947. While at the College, he was a member of the varsity football team.

Davis left Dickinson in June 1950, and, after working for a time with the Sun Oil Company, re-enlisted in the Army in September, 1951. He was killed in an aerial collision over San Antonio, Texas later that year.

Robert Davidson was born in 1750 in Elkton, Maryland. As a young man, he attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1771. During his time as a student he married a woman named Abigail, and the couple would enjoy more than thirty years together until her death in 1806. In 1772, at the age of twenty-two, Davidson was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Castle and was soon sent to preach at the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. He became a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania in 1773, during which time he worked as an assistant to the pastor Dr. John Ewing of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. The University awarded him a doctor of divinity degree in 1784, shortly before he left the city to take up residence in Carlisle.

Robert Laurenson Dashiell was born June 25, 1825 in Salisbury, Maryland. He attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, graduating in July of 1846 as Salutatorian. Throughout his collegiate years at Dickinson, Dashiell was an active member of the Union Philosophical Society. Following his graduation, he went to teach in Baltimore for two years. For his continued scholarship, Dickinson awarded him a master's degree in 1849.

From 1848 to 1860, Dashiell served as a member of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and from 1860 to 1868 he served with the Newark Conference. He was named President of Dickinson College in 1868, becoming the first alumnus to hold that position. His term in office is best remembered for the student rebellion of 1870. Dashiell would resign as President on June 25, 1872, and then be named Corresponding Secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society.

He would occupy that position until his death on March 8, 1880 in Newark, New Jersey at the age of sixty-four.