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<\/a>Graduates, Dickinson College Class of 1868<\/p><\/div>\n
An overview of Dickinson Class of 1868:<\/p>\n
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- 30<\/strong> students total<\/li>\n
- 13<\/strong> graduates, 17<\/strong> non-graduates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- 24<\/strong>\/30 were involved in campus societies or greek life<\/li>\n
- 19\u00a0<\/strong>in fraternities<\/li>\n
- 13<\/strong> in Belles Lettres Society<\/li>\n
- 8\u00a0<\/strong>in Union Philosophical Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Place of Origin:<\/p>\n
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- Maryland:\u00a011<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Pennsylvania:\u00a06<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Delaware:\u00a03<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Washington D.C.:\u00a02<\/b><\/li>\n
- New Jersey:\u00a01<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- England:\u00a01<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Despite the relatively small size of the class, there was a wide range of careers listed in the Alumni Record, making categorization difficult. I tried to organize them under broad areas, e.g. Education, Medicine, Law, Politics, Religion, etc. But again, because of the wide variety, this method wasn’t practical:<\/p>\n
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- 5\u00a0<\/strong>educators<\/li>\n
- 6\u00a0<\/strong>physicians (5<\/strong> of whom were non-graduates)<\/li>\n
- 4\u00a0<\/strong>lawyers<\/li>\n
- 4\u00a0<\/strong>clergymen<\/li>\n
- 5\u00a0<\/strong>with military affiliations<\/li>\n
- 2\u00a0<\/strong>politicians<\/li>\n
- 2\u00a0<\/strong>engineers<\/li>\n
- 2\u00a0<\/strong>merchants\/manufacturers<\/li>\n
- 2\u00a0<\/strong>journalists<\/li>\n
- 2\u00a0<\/strong>railroad officials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
8\u00a0<\/strong>students were listed as having more than one occupation in the Dickinson Alumni Record<\/a> of 1905, so there is some overlap in the above list. There were also\u00a05\u00a0<\/strong>student\u00a0entries\u00a0without any information.<\/p>\n
\nOther Reference:<\/p>\n
There were two\u00a0graduates I was first interested in researching further: Alexander Crawford Chenoweth and John Franklin Goucher. These two\u00a0had some of the longest descriptions in the Alumni Record, and had interesting international connections. However, after finishing my data overview, I was struck by the number of non-graduates who went on to become physicians. These were Benjamin Reid Davidson, James Edward Gibbons, Albertus A. Miller, John Cook Rives, and Charles Richey Winterson.<\/p>\n
I ran Davidson, Gibbons, Miller, Rives, and Winterson through Wikipedia,\u00a0American National Biography Online, and the Dickinson Encyclopedia, on the off chance that they might appear there, despite being relatively unknown\/unaccomplished. There was a Wikipedia hit for a James Gibbons, but he was a cardinal and the archbishop of Baltimore. When I moved on to look for county histories and records of physicians in each of their respective townships\u00a0in the 19th century, I encountered a number of biographies on His Eminence, but no reference sources on any of the Dickinson non-graduates.<\/p>\n
There are\u00a0no reference sources on them\u00a0through Google Books, either. A search of their respective county histories yielded nothing. I did find a History of Montgomery County<\/a>, PA, birthplace\u00a0of James\u00a0Gibbons, that was\u00a0published in 1884, but the James\u00a0Gibbons listed therein served as part of the 103rd Pennsylvania Regiment<\/a>, a group of volunteer soldiers that was\u00a0active starting in 1862. He was mustered on October 12, 1864, when James Gibbons of the Class of 1868\u00a0entered Dickinson.<\/p>\n\n\t\t
- 6\u00a0<\/strong>physicians (5<\/strong> of whom were non-graduates)<\/li>\n
- 5\u00a0<\/strong>educators<\/li>\n
- Pennsylvania:\u00a06<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 19\u00a0<\/strong>in fraternities<\/li>\n
- 13<\/strong> graduates, 17<\/strong> non-graduates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n