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Print of President's House on Ninth Street converted for use as the University of Pennsylvania campus. Includes the rotunda added to the Medical School addition in 1817. Demolished 1829 for construction of twin buildings designed by William Strickland

Print of twin buildings designed by William Strickland for Penn's Ninth Street campus. Medical Hall is on the left, and College Hall on the right. Erected 1829. Print dates from 1842

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COLLEGE CLASS OF 1852
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 as provided 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)