College Class of 1852 | Penn in the 19th Century

Detail of program for declamations presented by Class of 1852 during their junior year Detail of portrait photograph of Henry Vethake, LL.D., Vice-Provost and Professor of MathematicsDetail of portrait photograph of Alfred Langdon Elwyn, Class of 1852Detail of portrait photograph of Benjamin Lee Detail of program for declamations presented by Class of 1852 during their senior year

Penn in the 19th Century
The 36 members of the Class of 1852

 

Read the summaries of the backgrounds and later lives of members of the Class of 1852, or follow the links below to biographical entries for each in the class book.

Graduates

Morris Joseph Asch (1833-1902)

William Kennedy Barclay (1832-1913)

William Foster Biddle (1834-1910)

John Thomas Carpenter (1833-1899)

Dorsey Cox (1832-1893)

Brinton Coxe (1833-1892)

Henry Augustus Duhring (1834-1901)

Richard James Dunglison (1834-1901)

Alfred Elwyn (1832-1924)

Charles Hare Hutchinson (1833-1902)

Benjamin Lee (1833-1913), Ph.D. 1878

Benoni Lockwood (1834-1909)

Richard Ludlow (1833-1874)

Matthew Huizinga Messchert (1831-1904), LL.B. 1854

Samuel Brown Wylie Mitchell (1828-1879), M.D. 1854

Isaac Norris, Jr. (1834-1918), M.D. 1855

George Patton (1828-1897)

Joseph George Rosengarten (1835-1921), LL.D. (hon.) 1907

Charles Frederick Taggart (1833-1863)

William Lehman Wells (1834-1883), M.D. 1856

George Spencer West (1831-1890)

Non-graduates

Edward Webster Appleton (1834-1901)

Samuel Etherington Appleton (1834-1909)

Albert Dabadie Bache (1832-1866)

George Earp Benson (1833-1866)

Henry Clifford Cave (1833-1852)

John Andrews Harris (born 1834), D.D. 1886 (hon.)

Albert Hewson (1834-1901)

Thomas Jefferson Himes (1831-1862)

James Bayard Hodge (1833-1850)

Francis Albert Lewis (1833-1883)

William McCalla McKeen (1833-1872)

Andrew Adams Ripka (1833-1922)

Joseph Engles Sample (1832-1872)

Henry Suddards (1832-1856), M.D. 1853

William Swaim (born 1833)

Facsimile of 1852 commencement program.  Click to view larger version

 

 

SEARCH | HOME


University Archives | Collections | History | Images | What's New | Services | Contact
University Records Center | University of Pennsylvania