Class of 1865 | Penn in the 19th Century

Detail of the first page of the Class of 1865 yearbook for 1863Members of the Class of 1865 photographed on the steps of College Hall on the Ninth Street Campus.  Included in the back row are Albert Monroe Wilson (Pomp), assistant steward, and William Dick, steward, in top hatDetail of first page of the 1865 yearbook of the Class of 1865

Penn in the 19th Century
The 51 members of the Class of 1865

 

Read a summary description of the Class of 1865, or follow the links below to short biographies of each of the men who at one time or another were part of this class.

Graduates

William Samuel Armstrong

Edward Totterson Bartlett

Beauveau Borie

James Hutchings Handy Brown

John Sergeant Gerhard

George Woolsey Hodge

John Thompson Lewis Jr.

Horace Magee

Robert Emmet McDonald

Thomas Mitchell

William Woodrow Montgomery

William Wilberforce Newton

Henry Pepper

Henry Reed

Samuel Ritchie

William Ashmead Schaeffer

John Clarke Sims Jr.

Asa Matlack Stackhouse

Thomas Diehl Stichter

Richard Newton Thomas

Robert Ellis Thompson

James Madison Power Wallace

William Fishbourne Wharton

Ellis David Williams

Non-graduates

George Handy Bates

Paul Beck

John Cox Biddle

Louis Adolphus Duhring

John Holbrook Easby

Theodore Minis Etting

John Worrell Fisher

Benjamin Maurice Gaskill

Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt

Inman Horner

Henry Reed Julian

Willing Francis Lewis

Harry Markoe

James Wilson McArthur

Arthur McKim

Joseph Dennie Meredith

Thomas Carswell Miles

Thomas Clarkson Parrish

William Evans Rogers

Henry James Rowland

Charles Perry Sinnickson

Henry Robinson Towne

James Napoleon Walker

Ethelbert Watts

Constantine Hering Williamson

 

These biographies were written by Jennifer Reiss C '07, a University Archives Research Fellow during the summer of 2005, under the direction of Mary D. McConaghy

 

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