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 cousin, Henry Frederick Angle, was one of his classmates. They both became members of the Belle Lettres Literary Society. While Louis joined Phi Kappa Sigma, Henry became a member of Sigma Chi.

Louis graduated with his class in 1866 and then studied law, being admitted to the Maryland bar in 1868. His influential political career began when he was first elected to Congress in 1883 as a Republican and served several terms until his defeat in 1891. He was secretary of the Republican National Committee during the election campaign of 1892. President Benjamin Harrison named him, meanwhile, to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. He was subsequently elected to the Senate for a six year term in 1899. At the time he was a professor at Georgetown Law School and continued to teach two courses a semester throughout his term in the Senate. He retired from the Senate and President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him to his last post as a justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia in 1905.

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 nearby institution with the class of 1824. He was a solid student, being named a sophomore sophister and was elected to the Union Philosophical Society. He also was one of the seven founder members of the Turkey Club, an eating club instituted on the campus in 1823. A fellow member was Andrew Parker, another local student and also destined to serve in the U.S. Congress. Short and stocky in stature, McClure was a practicing Methodist. Following his graduation with his class, he studied law and was admitted to the Carlisle bar in 1826.

A Democrat, he was elected as a state representative in 1835 and then served in the United States Congress when elected in his own right 1837-1839; he was elected for part of 1840 and 1841 to replace the deceased incumbent, William Sterritt Ramsay - a fellow Dickinsonian who had shot himself in October, 1840. He served as secretary of state for Pennsylvania between 1843 and 1845.

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 Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. At the age of 14, young Emory (he dropped "John" to distinguish himself from his father) enrolled in the College as a freshman with a concentration in mathematics. He withdrew in 1856 to study at Yale, yet he ultimately received his degree from Columbia University in 1859. He was immediately offered a position as a mathematics tutor at that institution, but the job was short-lived as Emory wanted to further his own education. To that end, he studied chemistry in Paris and London until February, 1862, and also spent a semester in laboratory training at the University of Göttingen, Germany in 1861.

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 Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.

McClintock joined the Dickinson College faculty in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1836 as a professor of mathematics. In 1840 he became professor of Greek and Latin. In 1847, the town of Carlisle charged him with inciting a riot over slavery. He was tried in the county court and was acquitted. A year later, he resigned from the College and became the editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review. McClintock did not cut all ties with the College and served as a trustee from 1849 to 1859. He also maintained his intellectual career, publishing many educational volumes and texts, especially in classical and theological literature.

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 coincidentally the younger McClelland entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to graduate high in the Class of 1829.

McClelland was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1832 in Chambersburg, and he practiced law in Pittsburgh for a short while before leaving the state for Monroe, Michigan in 1833. He set up a successful law practice and was a member of the convention to prepare Michigan for statehood in 1835. At the same time he became a leader in the new state's Democratic Party. He served as a member of the board of regents of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1837 and was elected to the state legislature for the first time in 1838. He became speaker of the state house in 1842 and from 1843 represented his district in the U.S. Congress for three terms sitting on the Commerce Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee.

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 Associate Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He left shortly thereafter, however, to complete his studies at the Theological Seminary of the Associate Reformed Synod of New York. It was at this institution that he first came in contact with Rev. Dr. John Mitchell Mason, later president of Dickinson College. Completing his theological course at the seminary, McClelland was ordained as a minister and became pastor of the Rutgers Street Presbyterian Church in New York City in 1815. Here he would remain for seven years until he was offered a professorship at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania under his former teacher Mason.

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 a freshman in September 1844. He was elected to the Union Philosophical Society and he graduated with highest honors in 1847.

After graduation, McCauley entered the Methodist Episcopal Church and joined the Baltimore Conference in 1850. Shortly following this, he married Rachel M. Lightner on July 8, 1851, with whom he had a daughter, Fanny. He was granted a doctor of divinity degree from his alma mater in 1867 and joined the Board of Trustees in 1869. In 1872, McCauley accepted the position as the fourteenth president of the College, remaining as such for the next sixteen years.

Birth: 1831; Allegany County, Maryland

Death: 1862 (age 31); Battle at Island No. 10 in 1862

Military Service: USA, 1861-62

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Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1852)

John McCarty was born around 1831 in Allegany County, Maryland. He prepared at the Dickinson Grammar School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania during the 1847-1848 academic school year and then entered the freshman Dickinson College class in the fall of 1848. During his years at the College, McCarty was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity as well as the Union Philosophical Society. He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1852 and thereafter studied law in Cumberland, Maryland. McCarty relocated to Missouri, where he established a law practice.

At the outbreak of war, McCarty was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Confederate States Army. He was killed in action at the Battle at Island No. 10 in 1862.

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

Alma Mater: Allegheny College, (non-graduate); Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1844)

Alfred Brunson McCalmont was the fourth of five children and third son of Alexander and Elizabeth Hart Connely McCalmont. He attended from an early age the local Latin School that Reverend Nathanial Randolph Snowden kept in Franklin and in 1839 entered Allegheny College. He soon withdrew and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where, coincidentally, Snowden had been a member of the board of trustees from 1794 to 1827, when it was under Presbyterian auspices. McCalmont entered with the class of 1844 and was elected to the Belle Lettres Society. He graduated joint top of his class and began law studies at home in Franklin under his sister's husband, Edwin Wilson and his own father, who was then a Pennsylvania District Judge.

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 first Pacific Coast Survey, during which he explored the Columbia River, his father died at sea of dysentery in December 1850. The younger McArthur then grew up in Portsmouth and Baltimore, Maryland before he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1861. While at the College he became a member of the Belles Lettres Society, but left before graduating. He subsequently studied the law.

By May 1864, McArthur was in Umatilla, Oregon where he was elected recorder in the first city government after its incorporation. He also began a newspaper there, but then moved on to Baker City where he founded that town's first journal, the Bedrock Democrat, in 1870. McArthur had already been elected as county judge of Baker County in 1868 and in 1870 was elected to state-wide office as a Democrat to the Circuit Bench of the Eastern Oregon District . He also served a term on the State Supreme Court. McArthur was then a district judge and in 1886 was appointed United States Attorney for Oregon in the Cleveland Administration, for which he moved to Portland. He also lectured on equity in the University of Oregon where he served on the board of regents.