James G. Blaine

James G. Blaine

male, deceased (1893)
James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 - January 27, 1893) was a U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S....
Sophia Smith

Sophia Smith

female, deceased (1870)
Sophia Smith (August 27, 1796 in Hatfield, Massachusetts - June 12, 1870) founded Smith College in 1870 with the substantial estate she inherited...
Joseph Denison

Joseph Denison

male, deceased (1900)
Joseph J. Denison was a minister; the first President of Kansas State University; and a founder of Manhattan, Kansas, having volunteered to go to...
Oren B. Cheney

Oren B. Cheney

male, deceased (1903)
Oren Burbank Cheney (1816-1903) was the founder of Bates College, an abolitionist, and a Free Will Baptist clergyman. He was born in Holderness,...
Benjamin E. Bates

Benjamin E. Bates

male, deceased (1878)
Benjamin Edward Bates (1808-1878) was a New England industrialist, who was the namesake and a founder of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Benjamin...

Israel Williams

male, deceased (1788)
Israel Williams was an American educator and judge who founded Williams College in 1793 by bequest of Ephraim Williams. Williams and John...

Charles Herbert Levermore

male
Doctor Charles Herbert Levermore received an A.B. from Yale, class of 1879, and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, 1885. At the latter institution he...

Thomas A. Davis

male
Colonel Thomas A. Davis was a son of a southern family, was born in Virginia. He was a graduate of the University of Tennessee. Shortly after...

Daniel Brainard

male, deceased (1866)
Daniel Brainard, MD was a Chicago based surgeon and founder of Rush Medical College. Brainard came to Chicago, in 1836, at the age of 24, and...