Charles Huston was born on January 16, 1771, in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the eldest son of Thomas and Jane Walker Huston. After a local education, he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1789. An accomplished Latin and Greek scholar, he attained honors on graduation and remained in Carlisle to tutor Dickinson students and study law under Thomas Duncan. During 1792-93, he took over as Principal of the college's Grammar School. He continued to tutor undergraduates in Latin and Greek, among them the young first year student, Roger Brooke Taney. He is said to have joined Washington's expedition in 1794 to quell the Whiskey Rebellion. He then gave up his teaching to concentrate on a legal career, was called to the bar, and took himself to the newly laid out Lycoming County where he launched a highly successful career as a land lawyer.

John Fletcher Hurst was born near Salem, Maryland on August 17, 1834, the only son and second child of Elijah and Ann Catherine Colston Hurst. His father was a relatively prosperous slave holding farmer and local magistrate who was active in the Methodist Church. His mother died at thirty-four in 1841, when John was seven years old. He was educated at home, then at the local common school and the nearby Cambridge Academy. He saw President Jesse Peck of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania preach near his home and was invited to attend the College in the fall. He did so, entering in September 1850 with the thirty-six member class of 1854. He became a member of the Union Philosophical Society almost immediately and, though not a great orator, later served in most of its executive offices. Already a serious and devout young man, "Johnnie Hurst" was already publishing small writings in various religious magazines before the end of his freshman year, and soon gained a reputation for gentle dignity and hard work. He graduated with twenty others of his class, not with honors but in the "First Section."

Christian P. Humrich was born on March 9, 1831 as the eldest son of John Adams, a provisions merchant and farmer, and Mary Ann Zeigler Humrich in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He was educated first by a Miss Rebecca Wrightman in one of the new primary schools in the town opened under the state free school laws, and then went on to the Dickinson College Preparatory School in 1847. He entered the College proper in 1848 with the class of 1852. While there he was active in the Belles Lettres Society and became a member of Zeta Psi fraternity. He graduated with his class in the summer of 1852 and immediately began law studies in the office of Robert Henderson in Carlisle.

Richard Watson Humphriss was born to Joshua and Ann Humphriss in Sudlersville, Maryland on May 27, 1836. He prepared for college at the Hyatt Academy and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the fall of 1854 with the class of 1857. He was elected to the Union Philosophical Society but withdrew from the College after one year to take a position as the principal of the grammar school in Pottsdown, Pennsylvania. He also taught at the Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. He then completed studies at the Methodist Episcopal Biblical Institute in Concord, New Hampshire and entered the Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Church as a clergyman.

He transferred to the New Hampshire Conference in 1861 and was pastor at the Wesley Church in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1863. He then moved on to the Providence Conference and the County Street Chucrch in New Bedford. He finally setttled into the Philadelphia Conference structure in 1868 and the served the congregations of Trinity Church, Christ Church, St John's, Green Street, Grace Church, and several others in a remarkable career in the city. In addition to this, he was a pastor in Reading and Chester, Pennsylvania and was for a time chaplain to the Pennsylvania Military College in West Chester outside the city of Philadelphia. He was pastor of the Eighteenth Street Church in the city from 1902 untill his retirement in 1905.

Birth: June 14, 1834; De Kalb County, Georgia

Death:  August 31, 1862 (age 28);  Second Battle of Bull Run

Military Service: CSA, 1861-62

Unit: Company F, 8th Georgia Infantry, Second Division

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1858)

Jennings Hulsey was born on June 14, 1834, in De Kalb County, Georgia. He enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1858. While at the College he became a member of the Belles Lettres Society and the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. Often at the center of student pranks, he was one of four men who were suspended for allegedly, and famously, tarring Professor Tiffany’s blackboards; he received punishment but was allowed to return and graduated with his class. After gaining his bachelor of arts degree in 1858, Hulsey returned to Georgia to study law in Atlanta; he later was admitted to the bar.

In 1862 Hulsey entered the Confederate States Army and became a captain in Company F, Eight Georgia Infantry, Second Division. This unit saw some of the heaviest fighting of the early part of the war in Virginia, suffering 208 casualties at the first battle of Bull Run, near Manassas, in July 1861. Jennings Hulsey did not survive the second battle of Bull Run; he was killed in action there on August 31, 1862.

Samuel Blanchard How was born on October 14, 1790 in Burlington, New Jersey. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned a bachelor's degree in 1810. Following his graduation, How found employment at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as the principal of the Grammar School and tutor for the College under the presidency of Jeremiah Atwater. He would subsequently become a confidant of Atwater's, who was greatly disappointed with his departure in 1811 to follow theological studies. How was ordained in the Presbyterian church of Philadelphia on November 9, 1815 and began service in a series of posts throughout New Jersey. From 1823 until 1829, How served as pastor of a church in Savannah, Georgia. Upon the resignation of William Neill as president of Dickinson College in 1829, the Board of Trustees elected Philip Lindsley to be his replacement. Lindsley, however, declined the position, and the Board in turn elected How, who was formally installed in his new office on March 30, 1830.

Amos Benjamin Horlacher was born in 1902 in Hazelton, Pennsylvania. He attended local school until the sixth grade, when he dropped out to earn a living making wooden patterns. After the First World War, he enrolled in Dickinson Seminary (now Lycoming College) in Williamsport, and graduated with honors in 1923. He later received his bachelor's degree from Wesleyan, where he was the quarterback of the football team, with honors in 1926. He became a Methodist minister from 1929 to 1941 on Long Island and in New York City. Between 1943 and 1947 he saw service as a Navy chaplain, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

In 1947, the president of Dickinson College, William Edel (a fellow Navy chaplain), selected him to be the first dean of Men and director of placement. While at Dickinson he was an active member of the administration, speaking out for both faculty and students. In 1953, he received his master's of education degree from Columbia University. In 1957, he resigned from his administrative post to teach full time in the English department.

John Hopper was born in 1923 in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, and attended Camp Hill High School. In 1941, he entered nearby Dickinson College in Carlisle as a member of the class of 1945. In his second semester, he volunteered to join the Army Air Corps at the encouragement of his roommate, Vincent Schafmeister. He served as a fighter pilot in the European theater of war. He returned in 1945 as a sophomore and graduated in 1948. He was well involved in the College, being a member of many organizations, such as the Beta Theta Phi fraternity, Omicron Delta Kappa honors society, and Raven's Claw. He was also an outstanding varsity basketball player, and in 1972 was inducted into the Dickinson Sports Hall of Fame.

Franklin Hollinger was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on March 26, 1925. He grew up in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania where he was an outstanding student at the local high school, excelling in chemistry, the orchestra, and chess.

Hollinger entered Dickinson College in nearby Carlisle for the winter session in January 1943, taking the scientific course; his ambition was to be a chemist. He left the College soon after for the armed services.

He went overseas in September, 1944 with Company B, 112th Infantry Regiment of the 28th Division. He was reported missing in action during the Battle of the Bulge, having been captured on December 20, 1944. A year later his parents were informed that he had died in a German prisoner of war camp on March 3, 1945, three weeks before his twentieth birthday.

William Alexander Himes was born in New Oxford, Pennsylvania on November 27, 1851 the son of William and Magdalen Lanius Himes and the younger brother of Charles Francis Himes. He went to local schools first and then to Nazareth Hall in Nazareth, Pennsylvania from where be began his undergraduate education at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. After two years at Moravian, he entered the junior class at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania where his older brother was teaching science. He was elected to the Belles Lettres Society and followed family tradition in joining the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity before graduating in 1871. Also, like his brother, he went west after graduation to make his fortune in real estate, this time in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He soon returned and entered his father's business in New Oxford.

Himes opened a retail lumber and coal business in New Oxford in 1878 and took up the management of several farms in the area. He also involved himself in other civic and commercial roles in the town, becoming a director of the York Trust Company and the Adams County Telephone Company. He served as a city council member and oversaw the construction of the New Oxford water works. He worked on the borough school board and was active in local Republican politics.