Marcus Joseph Wright, circa 1890, detail

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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, February 22, 2009.
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engraving
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Source citation
Merrill Edwards Gates, Men of Mark in America: Ideals of American Life Told in Biographies of Eminent Living Americans, Volume II (Washington, DC: Men of Mark Publishing Company, 1906), 426.

Marcus Joseph Wright, circa 1890

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Google Books
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, February 22, 2009.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
Yes
Permission to use?
Public
Source citation
Merrill Edwards Gates, Men of Mark in America: Ideals of American Life Told in Biographies of Eminent Living Americans, Volume II (Washington, DC: Men of Mark Publishing Company, 1906), 426.

David James Holmes (Dickinson Alumni Record)

Reference
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 184.
*Holmes, David James - Born December 22, 1830, near Carlisle, Pa.; p., Daniel R. and Mary (Griffin) Holmes; prep., Rock River seminary, Mt. Morris, Ill.; entered 1850; entered Yale, 1851; entered Williams college; entered Garrett Biblical institute; A. B., 1855, Williams; B. D., Garret Biblical institute; D. D., 1890, Allegheny college; teacher, three years; entered Rock River conference, 1859, and in active ministry until date of death; married, March 28, 1852, Equilda L. M.

Richard Watson Humphriss (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Richard Watson Humphriss,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/h/ed_humphrissRW.htm.
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.
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