Jeremiah Atwater, who had been the third president of Dickinson College between 1809 and 1815, died from the continuing effects of a series of strokes, aged eighty-five. An honor graduate of Yale University and a Presbyterian minister, he had previous to arriving at Dickinson been Middlebury College's first president. (By John Osborne)
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John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., "Jeremiah Atwater," Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/a/ed_atwaterJ.html
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