Birth: January, 30 1830; Mifflinburg, Union County, Pennsylvania

 Death: May 15, 1864 (age 34); Atlanta Campaign

 Military service: CSA, 1861-64

 Unit: 3rd Tennessee Regiment "Clark's Regiment"

 Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1850)

 Flavel Clingan Barber, a wealthy land owner and the eighth child of Thomas Barner and Elizabeth Clingan entered Dickinson in 1848 as a junior.  While attending Dickinson he was a member of the Union Philosophical Society and graduated with the class of 1850.

After graduation Barber moved to Pulaski, Tennessee where he attended Giles College.  In 1860 he took a position as principal in Pulaski where he met his wife Mary paine Abernathy. When the war began Barber helped raise the 3rd Tennessee Infantry which consisted of 10 companies, and on May 15, 1861, before the company left Flavel and Mary were married.

Samuel Alston Banks was born in Frostproof, Florida on May 16, 1928 to Mary Gatewood and Samuel A. Banks, Sr., a prominent citrus grower and packer. The young Banks attended Lakeland High School and Florida Southern College before going on to study at Duke University. While at Duke, he was a member of the Psi Chi fraternity, as well as Phi Eta Sigma and the Omicron Delta Kappa honor society. Banks graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in English literature in 1949. Following graduation, he went on to study at Emory University's Chandler School of Theology, from which he received a Master of Divinity degree in 1952. In 1951, Banks was ordained by the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church. He served as a pastor in various churches in Georgia, Florida, and Illinois while he completed his postgraduate studies. Banks earned his doctorate in religion and psychology at the University of Chicago, completing the requirements in 1971. By that time, he had already been an assistant professor of pastoral counseling and theology at Drew University and had served the University of Florida in various teaching and administrative assignments, largely in the College of Medicine. Between the years of 1973 and 1975, Banks also held the position of the chief of that college's Division of Social Science and Humanities.

Spencer Fullerton Baird was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on February 3, 1823 to Samuel Baird and Lydia McFunn Biddle, the third of seven children. The family relocated to Carlisle, Pennsylvania following the death of Baird's father from cholera in 1833. Baird entered Dickinson College as a freshman in 1837, receiving his A.B. degree in 1840. Following graduation, Baird attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York for one year, but found that he had a dislike for the medical practice and returned to Carlisle to continue with his studies. In 1843, the College conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1856, an honorary degree of Doctor of Physical Science. During this time, Baird married Mary Helen Churchill, and the young couple later had a daughter, Lucy Hunter Baird.

Robert N. Baer was born on April 12, 1834 in Baltimore, Maryland. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1858, was elected to the Union Philosophical Society, and graduated with his class. Following this he studied as a clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

During his career, Baer served in various capacities within the Baltimore Conference from 1861 to 1888. Initially, he was principal of Salisbury Academy in Maryland for three years beginning in 1858. Baer also served in Washington, D.C. as pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church, and he officiated at Memorial Day services in the Congressional Cemetery there in 1881. He finished his career in the Conference at the Fayette Street Church in Baltimore. Dickinson College awarded Baer an honorary doctor of divinity degree in 1884.

His family circumstances are unknown at this time. On September 21, 1888, Robert Newton Baer died of typhoid in his Fayette Street parsonage after a short illness. He was fifty-four years old.

Frank Ayres, Jr. was born on December 10, 1901 in Rock Hall, Maryland. He earned his bachelor of science degree from Washington College, Maryland and his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago.

He taught from 1921-24 at Ogden College and another four years at Texas A&M before coming to Dickinson in June 1928. He was promoted to associate professor in June, 1935. Along with his teaching, he also served as assistant registrar and registrar between 1941 and 1945.

Ayres was also an instructor in the Army Air Corps program at the College, 1943-44, and authored a book, Basic Mathematics of Aviation, which was adopted across the Air Corps training system. In all, he wrote seven textbooks. In 1943 he was named the Susan Powers Hoffman Professor of Mathematics. From 1938 until his retirement in June, 1958, he served as chairman of the mathematics department.

Outside of the classroom, Ayres played flute in the College Orchestra. His daughter, Margaret Ayres Jacobs, graduated from Dickinson with the class of 1951. He died in June, 1994.

Jeremiah Atwater was born the second child of Jeremiah and Lois (Hurd) Atwater on December 27, 1773 in New Haven, Connecticut. He prepared for college with Eli Bullard and attended Yale University, graduating with highest honors in 1793. He was awarded prestige as a Berkeley Scholar and received a three-year graduate scholarship for study. In 1795 he became a tutor at the university, and on May 29, 1798 he was licensed to preach by the New Haven Eastern Assembly of Ministers. Atwater resigned his position at Yale in 1799 in order to become principal of the Addison County Grammar School in Middlebury, Vermont. The following year marked the establishment of Middlebury College, and Atwater became its first president.

Milton Baron Asbell was born on August 23, 1913 in Camden, New Jersey and attended his local city schools, graduating from Camden High School in 1931. He enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in September 1933 in the class of 1937. After a freshman year in which he attained the highest grade in English, Algebra, Plane Geometry, and German, "Mickey" Asbell transferred to the University of Maryland Dental School and graduated with the D.D.S. in 1938.

Richard Armstrong was born in Turbotville, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania on April 13, 1805. He entered Dickinson College with the class of 1827 and upon graduation entered the Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained by the Baltimore Presbytery on October 7, 1831 and a month later sailed from New Bedford, Massachusetts on a mission to the Pacific Islands. Armstrong helped make up the "fourth reinforcement" of the Presbyterian mission to the Hawaiian Islands, arriving in May 1832. He first took charge of the mission at Nukahiva in the northern islands of the Marquesas group, known then as the Washington Islands. From there he went to the mission at Wailuku, Maui in July 1834 and served there until 1840. He returned to Honolulu on Oahu to take up the leadership of the First Church in November 1840 upon the return of Hiram Bingham, first leader of the mission, to the United States.

Born in Ireland on October 13, 1717 and known as "the first citizen of Carlisle," John Armstrong is probably best known for his victories during the French and Indian Wars. French-inspired attacks by native tribes began to erupt all along Pennsylvania's western frontier in 1754, and Armstrong joined the Pennsylvania Regiment to help combat them. Attaining the rank of colonel, Armstrong led his troops to a great victory at Kittanning near Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) in September 1756. Armstrong was highly decorated and honored for his years of valiant service, particularly for the battle at Kittanning, in which he had been seriously wounded.

After the wars, Armstrong returned to Carlisle and became a respected civic and religious leader. Armstrong had been a surveyor for John, Richard, and Thomas Penn, the Proprietors of Pennsylvania, and was instrumental in the original mapping of Carlisle in 1750-51; he was later appointed deputy surveyor for the county in 1762. He was elected to the Continental Congress several times, and served with the Continental Army during the Revolution.

James Armstrong was the eldest son of General John Armstrong and was born on August 29, 1748. He studied at the Philadelphia Academy before attending the College of New Jersey, now Princeton. For four or five years, James Armstrong studied medicine under Dr. John Morgan in Philadelphia. Armstrong received his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1769.

Some sources indicate that, after a brief stay in Winchester, Virginia, Armstrong served as a surgeon during the American Revolution. However, by 1784, he traveled to London where he studied under Dr. Sydenham until 1786. Returning to Carlisle, Armstrong married May Stevenson in 1789, then moved to the Kishacoquillas Valley. From there, he was elected to Congress in 1792 from the 3rd District of Pennsylvania. He served one term in the House of Representatives from 1793 to 1795.

In 1796, Armstrong was elected a trustee of Dickinson College, a position once held by his father. He returned to Carlisle in 1801, settling his family on an estate named Richland Lawn. In 1808, Armstrong was named associate judge in Cumberland County, and was also chosen as the president of the Dickinson College Board of Trustees, a position that he held until 1824. Dr. James Armstrong died on May 6, 1828.