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Daniel Mountjoy Cloud (Dickinson Chronicles)
John Osborne and James W. Gerenscer, eds., “Daniel Mountjoy Cloud,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/c/ed_cloudDM.html.
Daniel Cloud was born on June 29, 1837 in Warren County, Virginia. He entered Dickinson College, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity and the Belles Lettres Literary Society. He graduated with the class of 1858. From 1858 to 1859 Cloud taught at Charlotte Hall, Maryland, and from 1859 to 1860 he taught at Salina, Alabama. In 1860, he accepted a position at the Biblical Institute in Conrad, New Hampshire.