Henry Dunster
President
1640 to 1654
Historical College Name: Harvard College
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Charles Chauncey
President
1654 to 1672
Historical College Name: Harvard College
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Leonard Hoar
President
1672 to 1675
Historical College Name: Harvard College
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Urian Oakes
President
1680 to 1681
Historical College Name: Harvard College
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
John Rogers
President
1682 to 1684
Historical College Name: Harvard College
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Increase Mather
President
1692 to 1701
Historical College Name: Harvard College
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes: also served as Rector (1685-1686) and Acting President (1686-1692)
Reverend James Blair
President
1693 to 1743
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
Samuel Willard
Vice President
1701 to 1707
Historical College Name: Harvard College
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend Abraham Pierson
President
1701 to 1707
Historical College Name: A collegiate school
Current College Name: Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Notes:
Reverend Samuel Andrew
President
1707 to 1719
Historical College Name: A collegiate school
Current College Name: Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Notes:
John Leverett
President
1708 to 1724
Historical College Name: Harvard College
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend Timothy Cutler
President
1719 to 1722
Historical College Name: Yale College
Current College Name: Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Notes:
Benjamin Wadsworth
President
1725 to 1737
Historical College Name: Harvard College
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend Elisha Williams
President
1726 to 1739
Historical College Name: Yale College
Current College Name: Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Notes:
Edward Holyoke
President
1737 to 1769
Historical College Name: Harvard College
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend Thomas Clap
President
1740 to 1766
Historical College Name: Yale College
Current College Name: Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Notes:
Reverend William Dawson
President
1743 to 1752
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
Jonathan Dickinson
President
1747 to 1747
Historical College Name: College of New Jersey
Current College Name: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Notes:
Aaron Burr, Sr.
President
1748 to 1757
Historical College Name: College of New Jersey
Current College Name: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Notes:
Robert Alexander
President
1749 to 1762
Historical College Name: Augusta Academy
Current College Name: Washington and Lee University
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend William Stith
President
1752 to 1755
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
Samuel Johnson
President
1754 to 1763
Historical College Name: King’s College
Current College Name: Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Reverend Thomas Dawson
President
1755 to 1760
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
William Smith
Provost
1755 to 1779
Historical College Name: College of Philadelphia
Current College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Jonathan Edwards
President
1758 to 1758
Historical College Name: College of New Jersey
Current College Name: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Notes:
Samuel Davies
President
1759 to 1761
Historical College Name: College of New Jersey
Current College Name: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Notes:
Samuel Finley
President
1761 to 1766
Historical College Name: College of New Jersey
Current College Name: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Notes:
Reverend William Yates
President
1761 to 1764
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
John Brown
President
1762 to 1776
Historical College Name: Augusta Academy
Current College Name: Washington and Lee University
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Notes:
Myles Cooper
President
1763 to 1775
Historical College Name: King’s College
Current College Name: Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Reverend James Horrocks
President
1764 to 1771
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
James Manning
President
1765 to 1791
Historical College Name: College of Rhode Island
Current College Name: Brown University
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Notes:
Reverend Naphtali Daggett
Pro tempore
1766 to 1777
Historical College Name: Yale College
Current College Name: Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Notes:
John Witherspoon
President
1768 to 1794
Historical College Name: College of New Jersey
Current College Name: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Notes:
Eleazer Wheelock
President
1769 to 1779
Historical College Name: Dartmouth College
Current College Name: Dartmouth College
Location: Hanover, New Hampshire
Notes:
Samuel Locke
President
1770 to 1773
Historical College Name: Harvard College
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Samuel Langdon
President
1774 to 1780
Historical College Name: Harvard College
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Samuel Stanhope Smith
President
1775 to 1779
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney Academy
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
Bishop James Madison
President
1777 to 1812
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend Ezra Stiles
President
1778 to 1795
Historical College Name: Yale College
Current College Name: Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Notes:
John Wheelock
President
1779 to 1815
Historical College Name: Dartmouth College
Current College Name: Dartmouth College
Location: Hanover, New Hampshire
Notes:
John Blair Smith
President
1779 to 1789
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney Academy/Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes: Smith served as president of Union College 1795-1799
John Ewing
Provost
1780 to 1802
Historical College Name: The University of the State of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes: institution name changed to The University of Pennsylvania in 1791
Joseph Willard
President
1781 to 1804
Historical College Name: Harvard University
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
William Smith
Principal
1782 to 1789
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes:
William Graham
President
1782 to 1796
Historical College Name: Liberty Hall Academy
Current College Name: Washington and Lee University
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Notes:
Abraham Baldwin
President
1785 to 1801
Historical College Name: University of Georgia
Current College Name: University of Georgia
Location: Athens, Georgia
Notes:
Charles Nisbet
President
1785 to 1785
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
James Mitchell
Head Master
1785 to 1786
Historical College Name: Transylvania Seminary
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Robert Davidson
President, acting
1785 to 1786
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles Nisbet
President
1786 to 1804
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh
President
1786 to 1790
Historical College Name: Queen’s College
Current College Name: Rutgers University
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Notes:
William Samuel Johnson
President
1787 to 1800
Historical College Name: Columbia College
Current College Name: Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg
President
1787 to 1815
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin and Marshall College
Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes: Board of Trustees operated college between 1815 and 1853. Franklin merged with Marshall College in 1853
Elias Jones
Head Master
1788 to 1789
Historical College Name: Transylvania Seminary
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Drury Lacy
Vice President and acting President
1789 to 1797
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
Isaac Wilson
Head Master
1789 to 1791
Historical College Name: Transylvania Seminary
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
George Welch
Principal
1789 to 1796
Historical College Name: Pittsburgh Academy
Current College Name: University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Robert Smith
President
1790 to 1797
Historical College Name: College of Charleston
Current College Name: College of Charleston
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
Robert Plunkett
President
1791 to 1793
Historical College Name: Georgetown Academy
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
William Linn
President
1791 to 1795
Historical College Name: Queen’s College
Current College Name: Rutgers University
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Notes:
Jonathan Maxcy
President
1792 to 1802
Historical College Name: College of Rhode Island
Current College Name: Brown University
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Notes:
Colin Ferguson
Principal
1792 to 1805
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes:
Robert Molyneux S.J.
President
1793 to 1796
Historical College Name: Georgetown Academy
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Ebenezer Fitch
President
1793 to 1815
Historical College Name: Williams College
Current College Name: Williams College
Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts
Notes:
Hezekiah Balch
President
1794 to 1810
Historical College Name: Greeneville College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes:
Harry Toulmin
President (first official)
1794 to 1796
Historical College Name: Transylvania Seminary
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Samuel Carrick
President
1794 to 1809
Historical College Name: Blount College/East Tennessee College
Current College Name: University of Tennessee
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Notes: Blount College because East Tennessee College in 1807
Ira Condict
President pro tem
1795 to 1810
Historical College Name: Queen’s College
Current College Name: Rutgers University
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Notes:
John Blair Smith
President
1795 to 1799
Historical College Name: Union College
Current College Name: Union College
Location: Schenectady, New York
Notes:
Reverend Timothy Dwight
President
1795 to 1817
Historical College Name: Yale College
Current College Name: Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Notes:
Samuel Stanhope Smith
President
1795 to 1812
Historical College Name: College of New Jersey
Current College Name: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Notes:
Louis William Valentine DuBourg S.S.
President
1796 to 1798
Historical College Name: Georgetown Academy
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
James Moore
President
1796 to 1804
Historical College Name: Transylvania Seminary/Transylvania University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes: also served as head master 1791-1793 and acting president 1793-1794, institution name changed from Transylvania Seminary to Transylvania University in 1799
Archibald Alexander
President
1797 to 1806
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
Samuel Legrand Campbell
President
1797 to 1799
Historical College Name: Liberty Hall Academy/Washington Academy
Current College Name: Washington and Lee University
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Notes: The institution changed its name to Washington Academy in 1798
Thomas Bee, Jr.
President
1798 to 1805
Historical College Name: College of Charleston
Current College Name: College of Charleston
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
Leonard Neale S.J.
President
1798 to 1806
Historical College Name: Georgetown Academy
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Jonathan Edwards
President
1799 to 1801
Historical College Name: Union College
Current College Name: Union College
Location: Schenectady, New York
Notes:
Reverend George Addison Baxter
President
1799 to 1829
Historical College Name: Washington Academy/Washington College
Current College Name: Washington and Lee University
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Notes: The institution changed its name to Washington College in 1813
Jeremiah Atwater
President
1800 to 1809
Historical College Name: Middlebury College
Current College Name: Middlebury College
Location: Middlebury, Vermont
Notes:
Reverend Daniel Clarke Sander
President
1800 to 1814
Historical College Name: University of Vermont
Current College Name: University of Vermont
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Notes:
Colonel Jonathan Williams
Superintendent
1801 to 1803
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Charles Henry Wharton
President
1801 to 1801
Historical College Name: Columbia College
Current College Name: Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Right Reverend Benjamin Moore
President
1801 to 1811
Historical College Name: Columbia College
Current College Name: Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Notes: also served as president pro tempore 1775-1776
Josiah Meigs
President
1801 to 1810
Historical College Name: University of Georgia
Current College Name: University of Georgia
Location: Athens, Georgia
Notes:
Asa Messer
President
1802 to 1826
Historical College Name: College of Rhode Island/Brown University
Current College Name: Brown University
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Notes: Institution name changed to Brown University in 1804
Jonathan Maxcy
President
1802 to 1804
Historical College Name: Union College
Current College Name: Union College
Location: Schenectady, New York
Notes:
Samuel G. Kramsch
Inspector/Principal
1802 to 1806
Historical College Name: Salem Female Academy
Current College Name: Salem Academy and College
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
Joseph McKeen
President
1802 to 1807
Historical College Name: Bowdoin College
Current College Name: Bowdoin College
Location: Brunswick, Maine
Notes:
John Watson
President
1802 to 1802
Historical College Name: Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
James Dunlap
President
1803 to 1811
Historical College Name: Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Colonel Decius Wadsworth
Superintendent, acting
1803 to 1805
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Joseph Caldwell
President
1804 to 1812
Historical College Name: University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Current College Name: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Notes:
Robert Davidson
President, acting
1804 to 1809
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Eliphalet Nott
President
1804 to 1866
Historical College Name: Union College
Current College Name: Union College
Location: Schenectady, New York
Notes:
Jonathan Maxcy
President
1804 to 1820
Historical College Name: South Carolina College
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
James Blythe
President, acting
1804 to 1818
Historical College Name: Transylvania University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Colonel Jonathan Williams
Superintendent
1805 to 1812
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
George Buist
President
1806 to 1808
Historical College Name: College of Charleston
Current College Name: College of Charleston
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
Abraham S. Steiner
Inspector/Principal
1806 to 1816
Historical College Name: Salem Female Academy
Current College Name: Salem Academy and College
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
Matthew Brown
President
1806 to 1817
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Robert Molyneaux S.J.
President
1806 to 1808
Historical College Name: Georgetown Academy
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Samuel Webber
President
1806 to 1810
Historical College Name: Harvard University
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
William Shields Reid
President, acting
1807 to 1807
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
Moses Hoge
President
1807 to 1820
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
Jesse Appleton
President
1807 to 1819
Historical College Name: Bowdoin College
Current College Name: Bowdoin College
Location: Brunswick, Maine
Notes:
John McDowell
Provost
1807 to 1810
Historical College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Francis Neale S.J.
President, acting
1808 to 1809
Historical College Name: Georgetown Academy
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
William Matthews S.J.
President
1809 to 1809
Historical College Name: Georgetown Academy
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Francis Neale S.J.
President
1809 to 1812
Historical College Name: Georgetown Academy
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Jeremiah Atwater
President
1809 to 1816
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Jacob Lindley
President
1809 to 1822
Historical College Name: Ohio University
Current College Name: Ohio University
Location: Athens, Ohio
Notes:
John Andrews
Provost
1810 to 1813
Historical College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John Henry Livingston
President
1810 to 1825
Historical College Name: Queen’s College
Current College Name: Rutgers University
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Notes:
Henry Davis
President
1810 to 1817
Historical College Name: Middlebury College
Current College Name: Middlebury College
Location: Middlebury, Vermont
Notes:
Charles Coffin
President
1810 to 1827
Historical College Name: Greeneville College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes:
Elijah Dunham Rattoone
President
1810 to 1810
Historical College Name: College of Charleston
Current College Name: College of Charleston
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
John Thornton Kirkland
President
1810 to 1828
Historical College Name: Harvard University
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
William Harris
President
1811 to 1829
Historical College Name: Columbia College
Current College Name: Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
John Brown
President
1811 to 1816
Historical College Name: University of Georgia
Current College Name: University of Georgia
Location: Athens, Georgia
Notes:
Reverend John Bracken
President
1812 to 1814
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
Andrew Wylie
President
1812 to 1816
Historical College Name: Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Giovanni Antonio Grassi S.J.
President
1812 to 1817
Historical College Name: Georgetown Academy/College of Georgetown
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes: Institution became College of Georgetown in 1815
Brigadier General Joseph Gardner Swift
Superintendent
1812 to 1814
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Robert H. Chapman
President
1812 to 1816
Historical College Name: University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Current College Name: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Notes:
Azel Backus
President
1812 to 1816
Historical College Name: Hamilton College
Current College Name: Hamilton College
Location: Clinton, New York
Notes:
Ashbel Green
President
1812 to 1822
Historical College Name: College of New Jersey
Current College Name: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Notes:
Frederick Beasley
Provost
1813 to 1828
Historical College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Mann Butler
President
1813 to 1816
Historical College Name: Jefferson Seminary
Current College Name: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Notes:
Hugh McGuire
Principal
1813 to 1815
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes:
Dr. John Augustine Smith
President
1814 to 1826
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
Captain Alden Partridge
Superintendent
1814 to 1817
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Reverend Samuel Austin
President
1815 to 1821
Historical College Name: University of Vermont
Current College Name: University of Vermont
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Notes:
John McKnight
President
1815 to 1816
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes: following McKnight, the college closed 1816-1821
Zephaniah Swift Moore
President
1815 to 1821
Historical College Name: Williams College
Current College Name: Williams College
Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts
Notes:
Timothy Alden
President
1815 to 1831
Historical College Name: Allegheny College
Current College Name: Allegheny College
Location: Meadville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William Tompkins
President
1816 to 1821
Historical College Name: Jefferson Seminary
Current College Name: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Notes:
Joab G. Cooper
Principal
1816 to 1817
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes:
G. Benjamin Reichel
Principal
1816 to 1834
Historical College Name: Salem Female Academy
Current College Name: Salem Academy and College
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
William McMillan
President
1817 to 1822
Historical College Name: Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Benedict Joseph Fenwick S.J.
President
1817 to 1817
Historical College Name: College of Georgetown
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Anthony Kohlmann S.J.
President
1817 to 1820
Historical College Name: College of Georgetown
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer
Superintendent
1817 to 1833
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Robert Finley
President
1817 to 1817
Historical College Name: University of Georgia
Current College Name: University of Georgia
Location: Athens, Georgia
Notes:
Joseph Caldwell
President
1817 to 1835
Historical College Name: University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Current College Name: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Notes:
Gerald E. Stack
Principal
1817 to 1818
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes:
Henry Davis
President
1817 to 1833
Historical College Name: Hamilton College
Current College Name: Hamilton College
Location: Clinton, New York
Notes:
Reverend Jeremiah Day
President
1817 to 1846
Historical College Name: Yale College
Current College Name: Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Notes:
Andrew Wylie
President
1817 to 1828
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend Francios Niel
President
1818 to 1824
Historical College Name: St. Louis College
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Samuel Doak
President
1818 to 1829
Historical College Name: Tusculum Academy
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes:
Joshua Bates
President
1818 to 1839
Historical College Name: Middlebury College
Current College Name: Middlebury College
Location: Middlebury, Vermont
Notes:
Francis Waters
Principal
1818 to 1823
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes: Also served as principal between 1854 and 1860
Horace Holley
President
1818 to 1827
Historical College Name: Transylvania University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Reverend Elijah Slack
President
1819 to 1822
Historical College Name: Cincinnati College
Current College Name: University of Cincinnati
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Isaac Anderson
President
1819 to 1857
Historical College Name: Southern and Western Theological Seminary/Maryville College
Current College Name: Maryville College
Location: Maryville, Tennessee
Notes: Institution became Maryville College in 1842
Alden Partridge
President
1819 to 1843
Historical College Name: Norwich Academy/Norwich University
Current College Name: Norwich University
Location: Northfield, Vermont
Notes:
Moses Waddel
President
1819 to 1829
Historical College Name: University of Georgia
Current College Name: University of Georgia
Location: Athens, Georgia
Notes:
William Allen
President
1820 to 1839
Historical College Name: Bowdoin College
Current College Name: Bowdoin College
Location: Brunswick, Maine
Notes:
James McChord
President
1820 to 1820
Historical College Name: Centre College
Current College Name: Centre College
Location: Danville, Kentucky
Notes:
David Sherman
President
1820 to 1825
Historical College Name: East Tennessee College
Current College Name: University of Tennessee
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Notes:
Enoch Fenwick S.J.
President
1820 to 1825
Historical College Name: College of Georgetown
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Robert Bruce
Principal
1820 to 1835
Historical College Name: Pittsburgh Academy
Current College Name: University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Daniel Dana
President
1820 to 1821
Historical College Name: Dartmouth College
Current College Name: Dartmouth College
Location: Hanover, New Hampshire
Notes:
Edward Dorr Griffin
President
1821 to 1836
Historical College Name: Williams College
Current College Name: Williams College
Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend William Staughton
President
1821 to 1827
Historical College Name: Columbian College
Current College Name: George Washington University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Jonathan Peter Cushing
President
1821 to 1835
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes: Cushing served as acting president 1820-1821
Zephaniah Swift Moore
President
1821 to 1823
Historical College Name: Amherst College
Current College Name: Amherst College
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend Daniel Haskel
President
1821 to 1824
Historical College Name: University of Vermont
Current College Name: University of Vermont
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Notes:
Charles M. M’Crohan
President
1821 to 1825
Historical College Name: Jefferson Seminary
Current College Name: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Notes:
Charles Marshall
President
1821 to 1824
Historical College Name: Philadelphia College of Apothecaries/Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Current College Name: University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes: Established as the Philadelphia College of Apothecaries, the institution became the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1822
John Mitchell Mason
President
1821 to 1824
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Thomas Cooper
President
1821 to 1834
Historical College Name: South Carolina College
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
John Bullock
Headmaster
1821 to 1846
Historical College Name: The Bullock School for Boys
Current College Name: Widener University
Location: Chester, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Bennet Tyler
President
1822 to 1828
Historical College Name: Dartmouth College
Current College Name: Dartmouth College
Location: Hanover, New Hampshire
Notes:
Jeremiah Chaplin
President
1822 to 1833
Historical College Name: Waterville College
Current College Name: Colby College
Location: Waterville, Maine
Notes:
Jeremiah Chamberlain
President
1822 to 1826
Historical College Name: Centre College
Current College Name: Centre College
Location: Danville, Kentucky
Notes:
Bishop Philander Chase
President
1822 to 1823
Historical College Name: Cincinnati College
Current College Name: University of Cincinnati
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Matthew Brown
President
1822 to 1845
Historical College Name: Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
James Irvine
President
1822 to 1824
Historical College Name: Ohio University
Current College Name: Ohio University
Location: Athens, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend Elijah Slack
President
1823 to 1836
Historical College Name: Cincinnati College
Current College Name: University of Cincinnati
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Heman Humphrey
President
1823 to 1845
Historical College Name: Amherst College
Current College Name: Amherst College
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
Nathaniel Bowen
President
1823 to 1824
Historical College Name: College of Charleston
Current College Name: College of Charleston
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
Timothy Clowes
Principal
1823 to 1829
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes:
James Carnahan
President
1823 to 1854
Historical College Name: College of New Jersey
Current College Name: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Notes:
Robert G. Wilson
President
1824 to 1839
Historical College Name: Ohio University
Current College Name: Ohio University
Location: Athens, Ohio
Notes:
William Neill
President
1824 to 1829
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Philip Lindsley
President
1824 to 1850
Historical College Name: University of Nashville
Current College Name: University of Nashville
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Notes:
Samuel Blatchford
President
1824 to 1828
Historical College Name: Rensselaer School
Current College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location: Troy, New York
Notes:
Robert Hamilton Bishop
President
1824 to 1841
Historical College Name: Miami University
Current College Name: Miami University
Location: Oxford, Ohio
Notes:
Thomas Church Brownell
President
1824 to 1831
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
William Lehman
President
1824 to 1829
Historical College Name: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Current College Name: University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Alexander McClelland
President, acting
1824 to 1824
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Philip Milledoler
President
1825 to 1840
Historical College Name: Rutgers College
Current College Name: Rutgers University
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Notes:
Reverend Edmund Saulnier
President
1825 to 1827
Historical College Name: St. Louis College
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Philander Chase
President
1825 to 1831
Historical College Name: Kenyon College
Current College Name: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Notes:
Benedict Joseph Fenwick S.J.
President, acting
1825 to 1825
Historical College Name: College of Georgetown
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
William McMillan
President
1825 to 1832
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend Willard Preston
President
1825 to 1826
Historical College Name: University of Vermont
Current College Name: University of Vermont
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Notes:
Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson S.J.
President
1825 to 1826
Historical College Name: College of Georgetown
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Jasper Adams
President
1825 to 1826
Historical College Name: College of Charleston
Current College Name: College of Charleston
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
George Tucker
Chairman of the Faculty
1825 to 1825
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Robley Dunglison
Chairman of the Faculty
1826 to 1826
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
David C. Proctor
President, pro tem
1826 to 1827
Historical College Name: Centre College
Current College Name: Centre College
Location: Danville, Kentucky
Notes:
Dr. William Holland Wilmer
President
1826 to 1827
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend Jasper Adams
President
1826 to 1828
Historical College Name: Geneva College
Current College Name: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Location: Geneva, New York
Notes:
F. G. Hopkins
Principal
1826 to 1828
Historical College Name: Hampstead Academy/Mississippi Academy
Current College Name: Mississippi College
Location: Clinton, Mississippi
Notes: Institution became Mississippi Academy in 1827
Francis E. Goddard
President
1826 to 1829
Historical College Name: Jefferson Seminary
Current College Name: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Notes:
Jeremiah Chamberlain
President
1826 to 1829
Historical College Name: College of Louisiana
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes:
Reverend James Marsh
President
1826 to 1833
Historical College Name: University of Vermont
Current College Name: University of Vermont
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Notes:
William Feiner S.J.
President
1826 to 1829
Historical College Name: College of Georgetown
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
John Tayloe Lomax
Chairman of the Faculty
1827 to 1827
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Charles Coffin
President
1827 to 1832
Historical College Name: East Tennessee College
Current College Name: University of Tennessee
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Notes:
Gideon Blackburn
President
1827 to 1830
Historical College Name: Centre College
Current College Name: Centre College
Location: Danville, Kentucky
Notes:
Francis Wayland
President
1827 to 1855
Historical College Name: Brown University
Current College Name: Brown University
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Notes:
Reverend Adam Empie
President
1827 to 1836
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
Nathaniel Bowen
President
1827 to 1828
Historical College Name: College of Charleston
Current College Name: College of Charleston
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
Alva Woods
President
1828 to 1831
Historical College Name: Transylvania University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Nathan Lord
President
1828 to 1863
Historical College Name: Dartmouth College
Current College Name: Dartmouth College
Location: Hanover, New Hampshire
Notes:
George Tucker
Chairman of the Faculty
1828 to 1828
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
William Heathcote DeLancey
Provost
1828 to 1834
Historical College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Edward Raymond Ames
President, acting
1828 to 1833
Historical College Name: Lebanon Seminary/McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes: Institution became McKendree College in 1830
Robley Dunglison
Chairman of the Faculty
1828 to 1830
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Stephen Chapin
President
1828 to 1841
Historical College Name: Columbian College
Current College Name: George Washington University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Henry Hoss
President
1828 to 1836
Historical College Name: Greeneville College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes:
Reverend Charles F. Van Quickenborne S.J.
President
1828 to 1829
Historical College Name: St. Louis College
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Daniel Comfort
Principal
1828 to 1834
Historical College Name: Mississippi Academy/Mississippi College
Current College Name: Mississippi College
Location: Clinton, Mississippi
Notes: Institution became Mississippi College in 1830
John Chester
President
1828 to 1829
Historical College Name: Rensselaer School
Current College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location: Troy, New York
Notes:
Jasper Adams
President
1828 to 1836
Historical College Name: College of Charleston
Current College Name: College of Charleston
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
William Staughton
President
1829 to 1829
Historical College Name: Georgetown College
Current College Name: Georgetown College
Location: Georgetown, Kentucky
Notes:
Daniel B. Smith
President
1829 to 1854
Historical College Name: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Current College Name: University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Josiah Quincy
President
1829 to 1845
Historical College Name: Harvard University
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Samuel Blanchard How
President
1829 to 1832
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes: following How, the college closed 1832-1834
Andrew Wylie
President
1829 to 1851
Historical College Name: Indiana University
Current College Name: Indiana University
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Notes:
William Alexander Duer
President
1829 to 1842
Historical College Name: Columbia College
Current College Name: Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Reverend Peter Verhaegen S.J.
President
1829 to 1832
Historical College Name: St. Louis College/St. University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes: Institution changed its name to St. Louis University in 1832
Alonzo Church
President
1829 to 1859
Historical College Name: University of Georgia
Current College Name: University of Georgia
Location: Athens, Georgia
Notes:
Eliphalet Nott
President
1829 to 1845
Historical College Name: Rensselaer School/Rensselaer Institute
Current College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location: Troy, New York
Notes: Institution became Rensselaer Institute in 1837
Henry H. Gird
President
1829 to 1834
Historical College Name: College of Louisiana
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes:
Peter Clark
Principal
1829 to 1832
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes:
John W. Beschter S.J.
President
1829 to 1829
Historical College Name: College of Georgetown
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Joseph A. Eastman
Principal
1829 to 1831
Historical College Name: Fredonia Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at Fredonia
Location: Fredonia, New York
Notes:
Thomas F. Mulledy S.J.
President
1829 to 1838
Historical College Name: College of Georgetown
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
David Elliott
President
1830 to 1831
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Joel Smith Bacon
President
1830 to 1832
Historical College Name: Georgetown College
Current College Name: Georgetown College
Location: Georgetown, Kentucky
Notes:
Mathias Loras
President
1830 to 1832
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes:
Samuel Witherspoon Doak
President
1830 to 1864
Historical College Name: Tusculum Academy/Tusculum College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes: Tusculum College charted in 1841
John C. Young
President
1830 to 1857
Historical College Name: Centre College
Current College Name: Centre College
Location: Danville, Kentucky
Notes:
Robert M. Patterson
Chairman of the Faculty
1830 to 1832
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend Richard Sharpe Mason
President
1830 to 1835
Historical College Name: Geneva College
Current College Name: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Location: Geneva, New York
Notes:
Louis Marshall
President
1830 to 1834
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Washington and Lee University
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Notes:
Charles B. Storrs
President
1830 to 1833
Historical College Name: Western Reserve College
Current College Name: Case Western Reserve University
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend Edward Beecher
President
1830 to 1844
Historical College Name: Illinois College
Current College Name: Illinois College
Location: Jacksonville, Illinois
Notes:
David McConaughy
President
1831 to 1849
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Alva Woods
President
1831 to 1837
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
John Mansfield Lutz
President, acting
1831 to 1833
Historical College Name: Transylvania University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes: served again as acting president 1834-1835
John Pratt
President
1831 to 1837
Historical College Name: Granville Literary and Theological Institution
Current College Name: Denison University
Location: Granville, Ohio
Notes:
Wilbur Fisk
President
1831 to 1839
Historical College Name: Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Wesleyan University
Location: Middletown, Connecticut
Notes:
James M. Matthews
Chancellor
1831 to 1839
Historical College Name: University of the City of New York
Current College Name: New York University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Henry Chaney
Principal
1831 to 1839
Historical College Name: Fredonia Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at Fredonia
Location: Fredonia, New York
Notes:
Nathaniel Sheldon Wheaton
President
1831 to 1837
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
George Junkin
President
1832 to 1841
Historical College Name: Lafayette College
Current College Name: Lafayette College
Location: Easton, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John Keep
President, acting
1832 to 1835
Historical College Name: Oberlin Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Oberlin College
Location: Oberlin, Ohio
Notes:
John Stephen Bazin
President
1832 to 1835
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes:
Charles Pettit McIlvaine
President
1832 to 1840
Historical College Name: Kenyon College
Current College Name: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Notes:
George Tucker
Chairman of the Faculty
1832 to 1833
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Richard Campbell
President
1832 to 1835
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes:
Richard W. Ringgold
Principal
1832 to 1854
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes:
Martin Ruter
President
1833 to 1837
Historical College Name: Allegheny College
Current College Name: Allegheny College
Location: Meadville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Rufus Babcock
President
1833 to 1836
Historical College Name: Waterville College
Current College Name: Colby College
Location: Waterville, Maine
Notes:
Benjamin Orr Peers
President, acting
1833 to 1834
Historical College Name: Transylvania University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
James H. Piper
President
1833 to 1834
Historical College Name: East Tennessee College
Current College Name: University of Tennessee
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Notes:
Peter Akers
President
1833 to 1836
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Charles Bonnycastle
Chairman of the Faculty
1833 to 1835
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Brigadier General René Edward De Russy
Superintendent
1833 to 1838
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Sereno Edwards Dwight
President
1833 to 1835
Historical College Name: Hamilton College
Current College Name: Hamilton College
Location: Clinton, New York
Notes:
James Reid Cole
President, acting
1833 to 1833
Historical College Name: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Current College Name: Texas A&M University
Location: College Station, Texas
Notes:
Billington McCarthy Sanders
President
1833 to 1840
Historical College Name: Mercer Institute/Mercer University
Current College Name: Mercer University
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes: Institution changed name to Mercer University in 1838
Reverend John Wheeler
President
1833 to 1849
Historical College Name: University of Vermont
Current College Name: University of Vermont
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Notes:
Eliphaz Fay
Principal
1834 to 1841
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Henry Junius Nott
Chairman of the Faculty
1834 to 1835
Historical College Name: South Carolina College
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
Reverend Stephen Olin
President
1834 to 1836
Historical College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Current College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Location: Ashland, Virginia
Notes:
John Price Durbin
President
1834 to 1842
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John Ludlow
Provost
1834 to 1853
Historical College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Joseph Estabrook
President
1834 to 1850
Historical College Name: East Tennessee College/East Tennessee University
Current College Name: University of Tennessee
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Notes: East Tennessee College became East Tennessee University in 1840
Henry Brown
President, acting
1834 to 1834
Historical College Name: Oberlin Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Oberlin College
Location: Oberlin, Ohio
Notes:
Nathan Watson Munroe
Principal
1834 to 1834
Historical College Name: Newark College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes: Uncertain whether Munroe served in this role prior to 1834
Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert
President
1834 to 1835
Historical College Name: Newark College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes:
Samuel Wait
President
1834 to 1845
Historical College Name: Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute/Wake Forest College
Current College Name: Wake Forest University
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes: Institution changed its name to Wake Forest College in 1838
Charles Philip Krauth
President
1834 to 1850
Historical College Name: Pennsylvania College
Current College Name: Gettysburg College
Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Henry Vethake
President
1834 to 1836
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Washington and Lee University
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Notes:
John C. Jacobson
Principal
1834 to 1844
Historical College Name: Salem Female Academy
Current College Name: Salem Academy and College
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
George E. Pierce
President
1834 to 1855
Historical College Name: Western Reserve College
Current College Name: Case Western Reserve University
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Notes:
Robert Henry
President pro tem
1834 to 1834
Historical College Name: South Carolina College
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
Gilbert Morgan
President
1835 to 1836
Historical College Name: Western University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Joel Harvey Linsley
President
1835 to 1846
Historical College Name: Marietta College
Current College Name: Marietta College
Location: Marietta, Ohio
Notes:
Robert Woodward Barnwell
President
1835 to 1841
Historical College Name: South Carolina College
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
Thomas Coit
President
1835 to 1837
Historical College Name: Transylvania University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Peter Mauvernay
President
1835 to 1839
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes:
Asa Mahan
President
1835 to 1850
Historical College Name: Oberlin Collegiate Institute/Oberlin College
Current College Name: Oberlin College
Location: Oberlin, Ohio
Notes: Institution became Oberlin College in 1850
George Addison Baxter
President, acting
1835 to 1835
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes: Baxter also served as president of Washington College (Va.) 1799-1829
Daniel Lynn Carroll
President
1835 to 1838
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
Richard Sharpe Mason
President
1835 to 1840
Historical College Name: Newark College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes:
David L. Swain
President
1835 to 1868
Historical College Name: University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Current College Name: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Notes:
John A.G. Davis
Chairman of the Faculty
1835 to 1837
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
I. N. Shepherd
Principal
1835 to 1836
Historical College Name: Mississippi College
Current College Name: Mississippi College
Location: Clinton, Mississippi
Notes:
Joseph Penney
President
1835 to 1839
Historical College Name: Hamilton College
Current College Name: Hamilton College
Location: Clinton, New York
Notes:
Johnson Welsh
President
1835 to 1836
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes:
James Shannon
President
1835 to 1840
Historical College Name: College of Louisiana
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes:
Reverend Robert Hall Morrison
President
1836 to 1840
Historical College Name: Davidson College
Current College Name: Davidson College
Location: Davidson, North Carolina
Notes:
Elihu W. Baldwin
President
1836 to 1840
Historical College Name: Wabash College
Current College Name: Wabash College
Location: Crawfordsville, Indiana
Notes:
Robert Bruce
Principal
1836 to 1843
Historical College Name: Western University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Carlyle Pollock Bemen
President
1836 to 1840
Historical College Name: Oglethorpe University
Current College Name: Oglethorpe University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Mark Hopkins
President
1836 to 1872
Historical College Name: Williams College
Current College Name: Williams College
Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts
Notes:
Benjamin Franklin Farnsworth
President
1836 to 1837
Historical College Name: Georgetown College
Current College Name: Georgetown College
Location: Georgetown, Kentucky
Notes:
Robert Everett Pattison
President
1836 to 1839
Historical College Name: Waterville College
Current College Name: Colby College
Location: Waterville, Maine
Notes:
Reverend Williams Holmes McGuffey
President
1836 to 1839
Historical College Name: Cincinnati College
Current College Name: University of Cincinnati
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Landon C. Garland
President
1836 to 1846
Historical College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Current College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Location: Ashland, Virginia
Notes:
Bethuel Cooley Church
Principal
1836 to 1836
Historical College Name: Select School
Current College Name: Alfred University
Location: Alfred, New York
Notes:
John Dew
President
1836 to 1838
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Alfred Hoss
President
1836 to 1838
Historical College Name: Greeneville College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes:
Benjamin Hale
President
1836 to 1858
Historical College Name: Geneva College/Hobart Free College
Current College Name: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Location: Geneva, New York
Notes: Institution renamed Hobart Free College in 1852
Frederick Augustus Rauch
President
1836 to 1841
Historical College Name: Marshall College
Current College Name: Franklin and Marshall College
Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend John Anthony Elet S.J.
President
1836 to 1840
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Reverend Henry Ruffner
President
1836 to 1848
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Washington and Lee University
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Notes: Ruffner also served as acting president 1829-1830 and 1834
Ignatius Alphonso Few
President
1836 to 1839
Historical College Name: Emory College
Current College Name: Emory University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
E. N. Elliott
President
1836 to 1837
Historical College Name: Mississippi College
Current College Name: Mississippi College
Location: Clinton, Mississippi
Notes:
Nathaniel Kendrick
President
1836 to 1848
Historical College Name: Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution/Madison University
Current College Name: Colgate University
Location: Hamilton, New York
Notes: Institution became Madison University
George Foster Pierce
President
1836 to 1840
Historical College Name: Georgia Female College
Current College Name: Wesleyan College
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
Silas Totten
President
1837 to 1848
Historical College Name: Washington College/Trinity College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes: Institution became Trinity College in 1845
Homer J. Clark
President
1837 to 1847
Historical College Name: Allegheny College
Current College Name: Allegheny College
Location: Meadville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Basil Manly, Sr.
President
1837 to 1855
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
Mary Lyon
Principal and founder
1837 to 1849
Historical College Name: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Current College Name: Mount Holyoke College
Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts
Notes:
James Read Irish
Principal
1837 to 1839
Historical College Name: Select School
Current College Name: Alfred University
Location: Alfred, New York
Notes:
Reverend Nicholas Point S.J.
President
1837 to 1840
Historical College Name: St. Charles College
Current College Name: St. Charles College
Location: Grand Coteau, Louisiana
Notes:
Benjamin F. Farnsworth
President
1837 to 1840
Historical College Name: Louisville Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Notes:
Gessner Harrison
Chairman of the Faculty
1837 to 1839
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Daniel Comfort
Principal
1837 to 1842
Historical College Name: Mississippi College
Current College Name: Mississippi College
Location: Clinton, Mississippi
Notes: Comfort resigned on January 1, 1842
John Hopkins Harney
President
1837 to 1846
Historical College Name: Louisville Collegiate Institute/Louisville College
Current College Name: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Notes: Institution became Louisville College in 1840
Isaac N. Peck
Principal
1837 to 1839
Historical College Name: Marshall Academy
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
Jonathan Going
President
1837 to 1844
Historical College Name: Granville Literary and Theological Institution
Current College Name: Denison University
Location: Granville, Ohio
Notes:
Cyrus Nutt
President, acting
1837 to 1839
Historical College Name: Indiana Asbury University
Current College Name: DePauw University
Location: Greencastle, Indiana
Notes:
Joseph Smith
President
1837 to 1838
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes:
John Rowan
President
1837 to 1846
Historical College Name: Louisville Medical Institute
Current College Name: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Notes:
William McSherry S.J.
President
1838 to 1839
Historical College Name: College of Georgetown
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
William Theophilus Brantly
President
1838 to 1844
Historical College Name: College of Charleston
Current College Name: College of Charleston
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
Brantley York
President
1838 to 1842
Historical College Name: Brown School/Union Institute
Current College Name: Duke University
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Notes: Institution established as Brown School in 1838 and became Union Institution in 1841
Rockwood Giddings
President
1838 to 1839
Historical College Name: Georgetown College
Current College Name: Georgetown College
Location: Georgetown, Kentucky
Notes:
Louis Marshall
President
1838 to 1839
Historical College Name: Transylvania University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
John Wesley Merrill
President
1838 to 1841
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Reverend James McLin
President
1838 to 1840
Historical College Name: Greeneville College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes:
William Maxwell
President
1838 to 1845
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
Charles Collins
President
1838 to 1852
Historical College Name: Emory and Henry College
Current College Name: Emory and Henry College
Location: Emory, Virginia
Notes:
Major General Richard Delafield
Superintendent
1838 to 1845
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Jacob Coon
President, pro tem
1838 to 1839
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes:
William Burnett
President
1839 to 1840
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes:
Charles H. Palmer
Principal
1839 to 1843
Historical College Name: Fredonia Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at Fredonia
Location: Fredonia, New York
Notes:
Leonard Woods, Jr.
President
1839 to 1866
Historical College Name: Bowdoin College
Current College Name: Bowdoin College
Location: Brunswick, Maine
Notes:
William Holmes McGuffey
President
1839 to 1843
Historical College Name: Ohio University
Current College Name: Ohio University
Location: Athens, Ohio
Notes:
Joseph A. Lopez S.J.
President
1839 to 1840
Historical College Name: College of Georgetown
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Thomas J. Biggs
President
1839 to 1845
Historical College Name: Cincinnati College
Current College Name: University of Cincinnati
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
John Stephen Bazin
President
1839 to 1840
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes:
William Colegrove Kenyon
Principal/President
1839 to 1865
Historical College Name: Select School/Alfred Academy/Alfred University
Current College Name: Alfred University
Location: Alfred, New York
Notes: Institution became Alfred Academy in 1842 and Alfred University in 1857; Kenyon’s title became president in 1857
Cyrus Peirce
Principal
1839 to 1842
Historical College Name: The Normal School in Lexington
Current College Name: Framingham State University
Location: Framingham, Massachusetts
Notes:
Simeon North
President
1839 to 1857
Historical College Name: Hamilton College
Current College Name: Hamilton College
Location: Clinton, New York
Notes:
John A.G. Davis
Chairman of the Faculty
1839 to 1840
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Jacob H. Patton
Principal
1839 to 1840
Historical College Name: Marshall Academy
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
Matthew Simpson
President
1839 to 1848
Historical College Name: Indiana Asbury University
Current College Name: DePauw University
Location: Greencastle, Indiana
Notes:
Theodore Frelinghuysen
Chancellor
1839 to 1850
Historical College Name: University of the City of New York
Current College Name: New York University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Francis H. Smith
Superintendent
1839 to 1889
Historical College Name: Virginia Military Institute
Current College Name: Virginia Military Institute
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Notes:
Alfred E. Thom
Principal
1840 to 1843
Historical College Name: Marshall Academy
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
Nicholas Tillinghast
Principal
1840 to 1853
Historical College Name: Bridgewater Normal School
Current College Name: Bridgewater State University
Location: Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Notes:
William H. Ellison
President
1840 to 1851
Historical College Name: Georgia Female College/Wesleyan Female College
Current College Name: Wesleyan College
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes: Institution became Wesleyan Female College in 1843
Alexander Campbell
President
1840 to 1866
Historical College Name: Bethany College
Current College Name: Bethany College
Location: Bethany, West Virginia
Notes:
Edwin H. Nevin
President
1840 to 1845
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes:
James A. Ryder S.J.
President
1840 to 1845
Historical College Name: College of Georgetown/Georgetown College
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes: Institution became Georgetown College
Chauncey Richardson
President
1840 to 1846
Historical College Name: Rutersville College
Current College Name: Southwestern University
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Notes: The roots of Rutersville became Southwestern University
Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck
President
1840 to 1850
Historical College Name: Rutgers College
Current College Name: Rutgers University
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Notes:
Howard Malcom
President
1840 to 1849
Historical College Name: Georgetown College
Current College Name: Georgetown College
Location: Georgetown, Kentucky
Notes:
Benjamin Labaree
President
1840 to 1866
Historical College Name: Middlebury College
Current College Name: Middlebury College
Location: Middlebury, Vermont
Notes:
Robert Davidson
President
1840 to 1842
Historical College Name: Transylvania University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Dominic F. Bach S.P.M.
President
1840 to 1842
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes:
David Bates Douglass
President
1840 to 1844
Historical College Name: Kenyon College
Current College Name: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Notes:
John Anthony Elet
President
1840 to 1847
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert
President
1840 to 1847
Historical College Name: Newark College/Delaware College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes: Institution became Delaware College in 1843
Charles Coffin
President, acting/interim
1840 to 1843
Historical College Name: Greeneville College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes:
Reverend James O. Van de Velde S.J.
President
1840 to 1843
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Reverend Joseph Soller S.J.
President
1840 to 1844
Historical College Name: St. Charles College
Current College Name: St. Charles College
Location: Grand Coteau, Louisiana
Notes:
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
President
1840 to 1848
Historical College Name: Emory College
Current College Name: Emory University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Otis Smith
President
1840 to 1844
Historical College Name: Mercer University
Current College Name: Mercer University
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
Gessner Harrison
Chairman of the Faculty
1840 to 1842
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Thomas C. Thornton
President
1841 to 1844
Historical College Name: Centenary College
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes: Thornton served as president of Centenary College in Brandon Springs, Mississippi before the institution merged with the College of Louisiana in 1844
Robert Ryland
President
1841 to 1866
Historical College Name: Richmond College
Current College Name: University of Richmond
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Notes:
William Parker
Principal
1841 to 1843
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Reverend Samuel Williamson
President
1841 to 1854
Historical College Name: Davidson College
Current College Name: Davidson College
Location: Davidson, North Carolina
Notes:
John Williams Yeomans
President
1841 to 1844
Historical College Name: Lafayette College
Current College Name: Lafayette College
Location: Easton, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles White
President
1841 to 1861
Historical College Name: Wabash College
Current College Name: Wabash College
Location: Crawfordsville, Indiana
Notes:
Samuel Kennedy Talmage
President
1841 to 1865
Historical College Name: Oglethorpe University
Current College Name: Oglethorpe University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Robert Henry
President
1841 to 1845
Historical College Name: South Carolina College
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
Eliphaz Fay
President
1841 to 1843
Historical College Name: Waterville College
Current College Name: Colby College
Location: Waterville, Maine
Notes:
John Hiram Lathrop
President
1841 to 1849
Historical College Name: University of Missouri
Current College Name: University of Missouri
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Notes:
Reverend John McCloskey
President
1841 to 1843
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes: McCloskey served as Bishop of Albany 1847 to 1864 and Archbishop of New York 1864 to 1885
Hiram H. Kellogg
President
1841 to 1845
Historical College Name: Knox College
Current College Name: Knox College
Location: Galesburg, Illinois
Notes:
James Finley
President
1841 to 1845
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
John Williamson Nevin
President
1841 to 1853
Historical College Name: Marshall College
Current College Name: Franklin and Marshall College
Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes:
George Junkin
President
1841 to 1844
Historical College Name: Miami University
Current College Name: Miami University
Location: Oxford, Ohio
Notes:
Nathan Bangs
President
1841 to 1842
Historical College Name: Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Wesleyan University
Location: Middletown, Connecticut
Notes:
William B. Lacey
President
1841 to 1845
Historical College Name: College of Louisiana
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes:
Julius Bates
Principal
1841 to 1845
Historical College Name: Brockport Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Location: Brockport, New York
Notes:
Alexander Campbell
President
1842 to 1844
Historical College Name: Mississippi College
Current College Name: Mississippi College
Location: Clinton, Mississippi
Notes:
William Garvin
President
1842 to 1843
Historical College Name: Louisville Medical Institute
Current College Name: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Notes:
Stephen Olin
President
1842 to 1851
Historical College Name: Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Wesleyan University
Location: Middletown, Connecticut
Notes:
Reverend Edward Sorin C.S.C.
President
1842 to 1865
Historical College Name: University of Notre Dame du Lac (University of Notre Dame)
Current College Name: University of Notre Dame
Location: South Bend, Indiana
Notes:
Henry St. George Tucker
Chairman of the Faculty
1842 to 1844
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Rufus William Bailey
Principal
1842 to 1849
Historical College Name: Augusta Female Seminary
Current College Name: Mary Baldwin University
Location: Staunton, Virginia
Notes:
Braxton Craven
President
1842 to 1863
Historical College Name: Union Institute/Normal College/Trinity College
Current College Name: Duke University
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Notes: Institution became Normal College in 1851 and Trinity College in 1851
Franceway Ranna Cossitt
President
1842 to 1844
Historical College Name: Cumberland University
Current College Name: Cumberland University
Location: Lebanon, Tennessee
Notes:
Robert Emory
President, acting
1842 to 1843
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Nathaniel Fish Moore
President
1842 to 1849
Historical College Name: Columbia College
Current College Name: Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Henry B. Bascom
President
1842 to 1849
Historical College Name: Transylvania University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Claude Rampon
President
1842 to 1844
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes:
Samuel Sterling Sherman
President
1842 to 1852
Historical College Name: Howard College
Current College Name: Samford University
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notes:
Edward Thomson
President
1842 to 1860
Historical College Name: Ohio Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Ohio Wesleyan University
Location: Delaware, Ohio
Notes:
Samuel J. May
Principal
1842 to 1844
Historical College Name: The Normal School in Lexington
Current College Name: Framingham State University
Location: Framingham, Massachusetts
Notes:
Captain William F. Graham US Army
Superintendent
1843 to 1844
Historical College Name: The South Carolina Military Academy
Current College Name: The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
James Guthrie
President
1843 to 1846
Historical College Name: Louisville Medical Institute
Current College Name: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Notes:
Reverend John P. O’Dwyer O.S.A.
President
1843 to 1847
Historical College Name: Augustinian College of Villanova/Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes: Institution officially known as Augustinian College of Villanova, but commonly known as Villanova College
Josiah B. Poage
Principal
1843 to 1850
Historical College Name: Marshall Academy
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
F. A. Redington
Principal
1843 to 1849
Historical College Name: Fredonia Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at Fredonia
Location: Fredonia, New York
Notes:
Heman Dyer
Principal
1843 to 1849
Historical College Name: Western University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes:
James Andrus Blinn Stone
President
1843 to 1863
Historical College Name: Kalamazoo Branch of the University of Michigan/Kalamazoo Literary Institute/Kalamazoo College
Current College Name: Kalamazoo College
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Notes: Institution became Kalamazoo Literary Institute in 1850 and Kalamazoo College in 1855
John Price Durbin
President
1843 to 1845
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
David Newton Sheldon
President
1843 to 1853
Historical College Name: Waterville College
Current College Name: Colby College
Location: Waterville, Maine
Notes:
Joel Smith Bacon
President
1843 to 1854
Historical College Name: Columbian College
Current College Name: George Washington University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Reverend Ambrose Manahan
President
1843 to 1843
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes:
Reverend John Harley
President
1843 to 1845
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes:
Reverend Samuel Matthews
President
1843 to 1845
Historical College Name: Greeneville College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes:
Reverend George A. Carrell S.J.
President
1843 to 1847
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Charles F. Stockwell
Principal
1843 to 1845
Historical College Name: Wesleyan Seminary at Albion
Current College Name: Albion College
Location: Albion, Michigan
Notes:
Reverend Thomas F. Mulledy S.J.
President
1843 to 1845
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend Julian M. Sturtevant
President
1844 to 1876
Historical College Name: Illinois College
Current College Name: Illinois College
Location: Jacksonville, Illinois
Notes:
Robert McLain
President, pro tem
1844 to 1845
Historical College Name: Mississippi College
Current College Name: Mississippi College
Location: Clinton, Mississippi
Notes:
Major Richard W. Colcock US Army
Superintendent
1844 to 1852
Historical College Name: The South Carolina Military Academy
Current College Name: The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
David O. Shattuck
President
1844 to 1848
Historical College Name: Centenary College of Louisiana
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes:
William Barton Rogers
Chairman of the Faculty
1844 to 1845
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Eliphaz Fay
Principal
1844 to 1847
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
George Junkin
President
1844 to 1848
Historical College Name: Lafayette College
Current College Name: Lafayette College
Location: Easton, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Truman B. Ransom
President
1844 to 1847
Historical College Name: Norwich University
Current College Name: Norwich University
Location: Northfield, Vermont
Notes:
Ezra Keller
President
1844 to 1848
Historical College Name: Wittenberg College
Current College Name: Wittenberg University
Location: Springfield, Ohio
Notes:
Thomas C. Anderson
President
1844 to 1866
Historical College Name: Cumberland University
Current College Name: Cumberland University
Location: Lebanon, Tennessee
Notes:
Lester James
President
1844 to 1846
Historical College Name: Wesleyan College
Current College Name: Southwestern University
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Notes: The roots of Wesleyan became Southwestern University
David Perkins Page
Principal
1844 to 1848
Historical College Name: New York State Normal School
Current College Name: University at Albany, SUNY
Location: Albany, New York
Notes:
Samuel Fuller
President, acting
1844 to 1845
Historical College Name: Kenyon College
Current College Name: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Notes:
Chloe Clarke Willson
Founder and sole teacher
1844 to 1847
Historical College Name: Oregon Institute
Current College Name: Willamette University
Location: Salem, Oregon
Notes:
Reverend Maurice Oakley S.J.
President
1844 to 1846
Historical College Name: St. Charles College
Current College Name: St. Charles College
Location: Grand Coteau, Louisiana
Notes:
Cyrus Peirce
Principal
1844 to 1849
Historical College Name: The Normal School in West Newton/The State Normal School in West Newton
Current College Name: Framingham State University
Location: Framingham, Massachusetts
Notes: The institution moved to West Newton in 1844 and designated The State Normal School in West Newton in 1845
John Leadley Dagg
President
1844 to 1854
Historical College Name: Mercer University
Current College Name: Mercer University
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
Charles A. Bleck
Principal
1844 to 1848
Historical College Name: Salem Female Academy
Current College Name: Salem Academy and College
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
Erasmus D. MacMaster
President
1845 to 1849
Historical College Name: Miami University
Current College Name: Miami University
Location: Oxford, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend James A. Ryder S.J.
President
1845 to 1848
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Oliver Morehouse
Principal
1845 to 1846
Historical College Name: Brockport Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Location: Brockport, New York
Notes:
William Peronneau Finley
President
1845 to 1857
Historical College Name: College of Charleston
Current College Name: College of Charleston
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
Daniel Comfort
President
1845 to 1846
Historical College Name: Mississippi College
Current College Name: Mississippi College
Location: Clinton, Mississippi
Notes:
Alexander D. Clark
President
1845 to 1861
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes:
Edward H. Courtenay
Chairman of the Faculty
1845 to 1846
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Samuel Mulledy S.J.
President
1845 to 1845
Historical College Name: Georgetown College
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
William C. Preston
President
1845 to 1851
Historical College Name: South Carolina College
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
Thomas F. Mulledy S.J.
President
1845 to 1848
Historical College Name: Georgetown College
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
President
1845 to 1847
Historical College Name: Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Robert Emory
President
1845 to 1847
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Edward Hitchcock
President
1845 to 1854
Historical College Name: Amherst College
Current College Name: Amherst College
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
William Hooper
President
1845 to 1848
Historical College Name: Wake Forest College
Current College Name: Wake Forest University
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
Jonathan Blanchard
President
1845 to 1857
Historical College Name: Knox College
Current College Name: Knox College
Location: Galesburg, Illinois
Notes:
Peter Akers
President
1845 to 1846
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Commander Franklin Buchanan
Superintendent
1845 to 1847
Historical College Name: United States Naval Academy
Current College Name: United States Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Notes:
John Peter Bellier C.J.M.
President
1845 to 1846
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes: The fathers of Vincennes assume control of the institution
Patrick Jones Sparrow
President
1845 to 1847
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend James Roosevelt Bayley
President
1845 to 1846
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes: Bayley served as Bishop of Newark 1853 to 1872 and Archbishop of Baltimore 1872 to 1877
Sherlock A. Bronson
President
1845 to 1850
Historical College Name: Kenyon College
Current College Name: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Notes:
Brigadier General Henry Brewerton
Superintendent
1845 to 1852
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Nathan S.S. Beman
President
1845 to 1865
Historical College Name: Rensselaer Institute/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Current College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location: Troy, New York
Notes: Institution became Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1861
Charles A. Van Vlech
President, appointed
1845 to 1846
Historical College Name: Greeneville College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes: appointed in 1845, but died in 1846 before serving
Samuel Alsop
Headmaster
1846 to 1853
Historical College Name: The Bullock School for Boys/The Alsop School for Boys
Current College Name: Widener University
Location: Chester, Pennsylvania
Notes: Institution became The Alsop School for Boys when Samuel Alsop assumed leadership in 1846
Charles Lewis Cocke
Superintendent
1846 to 1901
Historical College Name: Valley Union Seminary/Hollins Institute
Current College Name: Hollins University
Location: Roanoke, Virginia
Notes: Institution became Hollins Institute in 1855
Edward Everett
President
1846 to 1849
Historical College Name: Harvard University
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Stephen William Taylor
President
1846 to 1851
Historical College Name: University at Lewisburg
Current College Name: Bucknell University
Location: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Orville Nelson Hartshorn
President
1846 to 1887
Historical College Name: Mount Union Seminary/Mount Union College
Current College Name: University of Mount Union
Location: Alliance, Ohio
Notes:
Henry Smith
President
1846 to 1855
Historical College Name: Marietta College
Current College Name: Marietta College
Location: Marietta, Ohio
Notes:
Jacob C. Tooker
Principal
1846 to 1848
Historical College Name: Brockport Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Location: Brockport, New York
Notes:
Samuel Smith Nicholas
President
1846 to 1847
Historical College Name: University of Louisville
Current College Name: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Notes:
Henry Lee Graves
President
1846 to 1851
Historical College Name: Baylor University
Current College Name: Baylor University
Location: Waco, Texas
Notes:
Simeon Colton
President
1846 to 1848
Historical College Name: Mississippi College
Current College Name: Mississippi College
Location: Clinton, Mississippi
Notes:
William Halsey
President
1846 to 1856
Historical College Name: Rutersville College
Current College Name: Southwestern University
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Notes: The roots of Rutersville became Southwestern University
James L. Cabell
Chairman of the Faculty
1846 to 1847
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend William A. Smith
President
1846 to 1863
Historical College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Current College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Location: Ashland, Virginia
Notes: Institution closed between 1863 and 1866 due to the war
H. Dwight
Principal
1846 to 1855
Historical College Name: Baldwin Institute
Current College Name: Baldwin Wallace University
Location: Berea, Ohio
Notes:
F.H. Blades
President
1846 to 1847
Historical College Name: McKenzie College
Current College Name: Southwestern University
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Notes: The roots of McKenzie became Southwestern University
Millard Fillmore
Chancellor
1846 to 1874
Historical College Name: University of Buffalo
Current College Name: University of Buffalo
Location: Buffalo, New York
Notes:
Reverend Theodore Dwight Woolsey
President
1846 to 1871
Historical College Name: Yale College
Current College Name: Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Notes:
Erastus Wentworth
President
1846 to 1850
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Albin Desgaultieres
President
1846 to 1846
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes: The college closed in 1846 while it conducted a search for the Jesuit fathers in France
Reverend Augustus J. Thébaud S.J.
President
1846 to 1851
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes:
Clark T. Hinman
Principal
1846 to 1853
Historical College Name: Wesleyan Seminary at Albion and Albion Female Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Albion College
Location: Albion, Michigan
Notes: Albion Female Collegiate Institute established in 1850
Silas Bailey
President
1846 to 1852
Historical College Name: Granville College
Current College Name: Denison University
Location: Granville, Ohio
Notes:
John F. Fleming
President
1846 to 1847
Historical College Name: Greeneville College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes:
Francis Springer
President
1847 to 1855
Historical College Name: Hillsboro College/Illinois State University
Current College Name: Carthage College
Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Notes: Founded as Literary and Theological Institute of the Lutheran Church in the Far West, the institution’s name was quickly shortened to Hillsboro College in 1847 and then became Illinois State University in 1852
Reverend William Harnett O.S.A.
President
1847 to 1848
Historical College Name: Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John Barker
President
1847 to 1860
Historical College Name: Allegheny College
Current College Name: Allegheny College
Location: Meadville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
James Guthrie
President
1847 to 1869
Historical College Name: University of Louisville
Current College Name: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Notes:
Mr. Munsell
Principal
1847 to 1848
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
James Butler
President
1847 to 1848
Historical College Name: Norwich University
Current College Name: Norwich University
Location: Northfield, Vermont
Notes:
Harrison Harrison
Chairman of the Faculty
1847 to 1854
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Robert Saunders, Jr.
President
1847 to 1848
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
Alexander Blaine Brown
President
1847 to 1856
Historical College Name: Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Horace Webster
President
1847 to 1869
Historical College Name: Free Academy of the City of New York/College of the City of New York
Current College Name: The City College of New York
Location: New York, New York
Notes: Institution became College of the City of New York in 1866
William Henry Allen
President, acting
1847 to 1848
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John Blox
President
1847 to 1848
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
James Patriot Wilson, Jr.
President
1847 to 1850
Historical College Name: Delaware College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes:
Commander George P. Upshur
Superintendent
1847 to 1850
Historical College Name: United States Naval Academy
Current College Name: United States Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Notes:
Joseph Smith
Teacher
1847 to 1848
Historical College Name: Oregon Institute
Current College Name: Willamette University
Location: Salem, Oregon
Notes:
Samuel B. Wilson
President, acting
1847 to 1847
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend John B. Druyts S.J.
President
1847 to 1854
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Reverend John Abbadie S.J.
President
1847 to 1848
Historical College Name: St. Charles College
Current College Name: St. Charles College
Location: Grand Coteau, Louisiana
Notes:
Francis de Sales Gautrelet S.J.
President
1847 to 1859
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes: Francis de Sales Gautrelet and F. Gautrelet appear to be the same person, but verification is needed.
Francis Smith Sampson
President, acting
1847 to 1848
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
William C. Larrabee
President, acting
1848 to 1849
Historical College Name: Indiana Asbury University
Current College Name: DePauw University
Location: Greencastle, Indiana
Notes:
Charles Martin
President, acting
1848 to 1849
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
Emil A. deSchweinitz
Principal
1848 to 1853
Historical College Name: Salem Female Academy
Current College Name: Salem Academy and College
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
George F. Holmes
Chancellor
1848 to 1849
Historical College Name: University of Mississippi
Current College Name: University of Mississippi
Location: Oxford, Mississippi
Notes:
Reverend John Early S.J.
President
1848 to 1851
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
John William
President
1848 to 1853
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
Alfred Ryors
President
1848 to 1852
Historical College Name: Ohio University
Current College Name: Ohio University
Location: Athens, Ohio
Notes:
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
President
1848 to 1849
Historical College Name: Centenary College of Louisiana
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes:
John G.K. Truair
Principal
1848 to 1853
Historical College Name: Brockport Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Location: Brockport, New York
Notes:
Reverend John P. O’Dwyer O.S.A.
President
1848 to 1850
Historical College Name: Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Consider Parish
President
1848 to 1850
Historical College Name: Mississippi College
Current College Name: Mississippi College
Location: Clinton, Mississippi
Notes:
John Black Johnston
President
1848 to 1850
Historical College Name: Geneva Hall
Current College Name: Geneva College
Location: Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Henry Wheaton
President
1848 to 1849
Historical College Name: Norwich University
Current College Name: Norwich University
Location: Northfield, Vermont
Notes:
James A. Ryder S.J.
President
1848 to 1851
Historical College Name: Georgetown College/Georgetown University
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes: Institution became Georgetown University
Bishop Thomas Bowman
President
1848 to 1858
Historical College Name: Williamsport Dickinson Seminary
Current College Name: Lycoming College
Location: Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John McKenzie
President
1848 to 1868
Historical College Name: McKenzie College
Current College Name: Southwestern University
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Notes: The roots of McKenzie became Southwestern University
Jesse Truesdell Peck
President
1848 to 1852
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
George R. Perkins
Principal
1848 to 1852
Historical College Name: New York State Normal School
Current College Name: University at Albany, SUNY
Location: Albany, New York
Notes:
George Foster Pierce
President
1848 to 1854
Historical College Name: Emory College
Current College Name: Emory University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
James H. Wilbur
Principal
1848 to 1849
Historical College Name: Oregon Institute
Current College Name: Willamette University
Location: Salem, Oregon
Notes:
Reverend George Junkin
President
1848 to 1861
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Washington and Lee University
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Notes: the college was vacant during the war, 1861-1865
Reverend John Baplist Esseiva S.J.
President
1849 to 1853
Historical College Name: Preparatory College of the Immaculate Conception
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Notes:
Nehemiah Doane
Principal
1849 to 1850
Historical College Name: Oregon Institute
Current College Name: Willamette University
Location: Salem, Oregon
Notes:
Eben Stearns
Principal
1849 to 1855
Historical College Name: The State Normal School at West Newton/The State Normal School at Framingham
Current College Name: Framingham State University
Location: Framingham, Massachusetts
Notes: The institution moved and became The State Normal School in Framingham in 1853
Lucien W. Berry
President
1849 to 1854
Historical College Name: Indiana Asbury University
Current College Name: DePauw University
Location: Greencastle, Indiana
Notes:
Lewis Warner Green
President
1849 to 1856
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
William C. Anderson
President
1849 to 1854
Historical College Name: Miami University
Current College Name: Miami University
Location: Oxford, Ohio
Notes:
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Chancellor
1849 to 1856
Historical College Name: University of Mississippi
Current College Name: University of Mississippi
Location: Oxford, Mississippi
Notes:
Jared Sparks
President
1849 to 1853
Historical College Name: Harvard University
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Charles A. Seeley
Principal
1849 to 1851
Historical College Name: Fredonia Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at Fredonia
Location: Fredonia, New York
Notes:
David Hunter Riddle
Principal
1849 to 1855
Historical College Name: Western University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Richard H. Rivers
President
1849 to 1853
Historical College Name: Centenary College of Louisiana
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes:
Charles William Nassau
President
1849 to 1850
Historical College Name: Lafayette College
Current College Name: Lafayette College
Location: Easton, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Samuel Matthews
Principal
1849 to 1849
Historical College Name: Augusta Female Seminary
Current College Name: Mary Baldwin University
Location: Staunton, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend Calvin Butler
Principal
1849 to 1851
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Samuel Sprecher
President
1849 to 1874
Historical College Name: Wittenberg College
Current College Name: Wittenberg University
Location: Springfield, Ohio
Notes:
James L. Reynolds
President
1849 to 1851
Historical College Name: Georgetown College
Current College Name: Georgetown College
Location: Georgetown, Kentucky
Notes:
Charles Grandison Finney
President, acting
1849 to 1849
Historical College Name: Oberlin Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Oberlin College
Location: Oberlin, Ohio
Notes:
Bishop John Johns
President
1849 to 1854
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
Mary C. Whitman
Principal
1849 to 1850
Historical College Name: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Current College Name: Mount Holyoke College
Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts
Notes:
Charles King
President
1849 to 1864
Historical College Name: Columbia College
Current College Name: Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
John Brown White
President
1849 to 1853
Historical College Name: Wake Forest College
Current College Name: Wake Forest University
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
James B. Dodd
President
1849 to 1856
Historical College Name: Transylvania University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
John Hiram Lathrop
Chancellor
1849 to 1858
Historical College Name: University of Wisconsin
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Notes:
Aaron Lucius Chapin
President
1849 to 1886
Historical College Name: Beloit College
Current College Name: Beloit College
Location: Beloit, Wisconsin
Notes:
John DeBlieck
President
1849 to 1851
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend Worthington Smith
President
1849 to 1855
Historical College Name: University of Vermont
Current College Name: University of Vermont
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Notes:
William Harkness Sampson
Principal
1849 to 1853
Historical College Name: Lawrence University
Current College Name: Lawrence University
Location: Appleton, Wisconsin
Notes:
Francis S. Hoyt
President
1850 to 1860
Historical College Name: Oregon Institute/Willamette University
Current College Name: Willamette University
Location: Salem, Oregon
Notes: Institution became Willamette University in 1853
E. S. Dulin
President
1850 to 1852
Historical College Name: William Jewell College
Current College Name: William Jewell College
Location: Liberty, Missouri
Notes:
William Morton Reynolds
President
1850 to 1854
Historical College Name: Capital University
Current College Name: Capital University
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Notes:
James Clark
President
1850 to 1852
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Henry Clark
Teacher
1850 to 1850
Historical College Name: Marshall Academy
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes: With the academy in decline, teachers Henry Clark and Joseph Foster briefly assumed leadership.
Joseph Foster
Teacher
1850 to 1850
Historical College Name: Marshall Academy
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes: With the academy in decline, teachers Henry Clark and Joseph Foster briefly assumed leadership.
Theodore Frelinghuysen
President
1850 to 1862
Historical College Name: Rutgers College
Current College Name: Rutgers University
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Notes:
Reverend William Harnett O.S.A.
President
1850 to 1851
Historical College Name: Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William B. McFarland
Principal
1850 to 1853
Historical College Name: Marshall Academy
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
W.B. Reese
President
1850 to 1853
Historical College Name: East Tennessee University
Current College Name: University of Tennessee
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Notes:
Daniel McLean
President
1850 to 1857
Historical College Name: Lafayette College
Current College Name: Lafayette College
Location: Easton, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Isaac Newton Urner
President
1850 to 1867
Historical College Name: Mississippi College
Current College Name: Mississippi College
Location: Clinton, Mississippi
Notes:
William J. Campbell
Principal
1850 to 1851
Historical College Name: Augusta Female Seminary
Current College Name: Mary Baldwin University
Location: Staunton, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend Samuel McKinney
President
1850 to 1853
Historical College Name: Austin College
Current College Name: Austin College
Location: Sherman, Texas
Notes:
William Finney George
President
1850 to 1852
Historical College Name: Geneva Hall
Current College Name: Geneva College
Location: Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Edward Bourns
President
1850 to 1865
Historical College Name: Norwich University
Current College Name: Norwich University
Location: Northfield, Vermont
Notes:
James Shannon
President
1850 to 1856
Historical College Name: University of Missouri
Current College Name: University of Missouri
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Notes:
Mary W. Chapin
Principal
1850 to 1865
Historical College Name: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Current College Name: Mount Holyoke College
Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts
Notes: Chapin served as acting president 1850 to 1852
Henry Lewis Baugher
President
1850 to 1868
Historical College Name: Pennsylvania College
Current College Name: Gettysburg College
Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Father Leo Meyer
President
1850 to 1857
Historical College Name: St. Mary’s Institute (OH)
Current College Name: University of Dayton
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Notes:
John Adams Savage
President
1850 to 1863
Historical College Name: Carroll College
Current College Name: Carroll University
Location: Waukesha, Wisconsin
Notes:
Thomas M. Smith
President
1850 to 1854
Historical College Name: Kenyon College
Current College Name: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Notes:
William Augustus Norton
President
1850 to 1850
Historical College Name: Delaware College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes:
Anson W. Cummings
President
1850 to 1852
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Commander Cornelius K. Stribling
Superintendent
1850 to 1853
Historical College Name: United States Naval Academy
Current College Name: United States Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Notes:
Matthew Meigs
President
1850 to 1851
Historical College Name: Delaware College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes:
John Nobili S.J.
President
1851 to 1856
Historical College Name: Santa Clara College
Current College Name: Santa Clara University
Location: Santa Clara, California
Notes:
Stephen William Taylor
President
1851 to 1856
Historical College Name: Madison University
Current College Name: Colgate University
Location: Hamilton, New York
Notes:
Walter Scott Finney Graham
President
1851 to 1854
Historical College Name: Delaware College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes:
Edward Lasell
Principal
1851 to 1851
Historical College Name: Auburndale Female Seminary
Current College Name: Lasell University
Location: Newton, Massachusetts
Notes:
Edwards H. Myers
President
1851 to 1854
Historical College Name: Wesleyan Female College
Current College Name: Wesleyan College
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
Reverend Anthony F. Ciampi S.J.
President
1851 to 1854
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Howard Malcom
President
1851 to 1857
Historical College Name: University at Lewisburg
Current College Name: Bucknell University
Location: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend Felix-Joseph Barbelin S.J.
President
1851 to 1856
Historical College Name: Saint Joseph’s College
Current College Name: St. Joseph’s University
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Rufus Columbus Burleson
President
1851 to 1861
Historical College Name: Baylor University
Current College Name: Baylor University
Location: Waco, Texas
Notes:
David H. Cochran
Principal
1851 to 1854
Historical College Name: Fredonia Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at Fredonia
Location: Fredonia, New York
Notes:
Francis Lieber
President pro tem
1851 to 1851
Historical College Name: South Carolina College
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
Reverend Patrick E. Moriarty O.S.A.
President
1851 to 1855
Historical College Name: Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John B. Steel, Jr.
Principal
1851 to 1854
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
James H. Thornwell
President
1851 to 1855
Historical College Name: South Carolina College
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
William R. Browne
Principal
1851 to 1855
Historical College Name: Augusta Female Seminary
Current College Name: Mary Baldwin University
Location: Staunton, Virginia
Notes:
Adonijah Strong Welch
Principal
1851 to 1865
Historical College Name: Michigan State Normal School
Current College Name: Eastern Michigan University
Location: Ypsilanti, Michigan
Notes:
Charles H. Stonestreet S.J.
President
1851 to 1852
Historical College Name: Georgetown University
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Charles Grandison Finney
President
1851 to 1866
Historical College Name: Oberlin College
Current College Name: Oberlin College
Location: Oberlin, Ohio
Notes: Institution became Oberlin College in 1850
George A. Carrell
President
1851 to 1853
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend John Larkin S.J.
President
1851 to 1854
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes:
Peter Akers
President
1852 to 1857
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Augustus W. Smith
President
1852 to 1857
Historical College Name: Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Wesleyan University
Location: Middletown, Connecticut
Notes:
Josiah Lasell
Principal
1852 to 1860
Historical College Name: Auburndale Female Seminary/Lasell Female Seminary
Current College Name: Lasell University
Location: Newton, Massachusetts
Notes: Institution became Lasell Female Seminary in 1852
Henry Philip Tappan
President
1852 to 1863
Historical College Name: University of Michigan
Current College Name: University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Notes:
Reverend John Early S.J.
President
1852 to 1858
Historical College Name: Loyola College (MD)
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes:
Major Francis W. Capers
Superintendent
1852 to 1859
Historical College Name: The South Carolina Military Academy
Current College Name: The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
Solomon Howard
President
1852 to 1872
Historical College Name: Ohio University
Current College Name: Ohio University
Location: Athens, Ohio
Notes:
James I. Brownson
President
1852 to 1853
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Alfred Ryors
President
1852 to 1853
Historical College Name: Indiana University
Current College Name: Indiana University
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Notes:
John Work Scott
President
1852 to 1865
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Edward Bannister
President
1852 to 1854
Historical College Name: University of the Pacific
Current College Name: University of the Pacific
Location: Stockton, California
Notes:
Duncan Robertson Campbell
President
1852 to 1865
Historical College Name: Georgetown College
Current College Name: Georgetown College
Location: Georgetown, Kentucky
Notes:
James Renwick Wilson Sloane
President
1852 to 1856
Historical College Name: Geneva Hall
Current College Name: Geneva College
Location: Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles Reason
Principal
1852 to 1855
Historical College Name: Institute for Colored Youth
Current College Name: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Location: Cheyney, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Bernard A. Maguire S.J.
President
1852 to 1858
Historical College Name: Georgetown University
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Ephraim Emerson Wiley
President
1852 to 1879
Historical College Name: Emory and Henry College
Current College Name: Emory and Henry College
Location: Emory, Virginia
Notes:
Georg Grossman
President
1852 to 1868
Historical College Name: Wartburg Normal School
Current College Name: Wartburg College
Location: Waverly, Iowa
Notes:
Charles Collins
President
1852 to 1860
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Samuel B. Woolworth
Principal
1852 to 1856
Historical College Name: New York State Normal School
Current College Name: University at Albany, SUNY
Location: Albany, New York
Notes:
Colonel Robert E. Lee
Superintendent
1852 to 1855
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Ira Mayhew
Principal
1853 to 1854
Historical College Name: Wesleyan Seminary at Albion and Albion Female Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Albion College
Location: Albion, Michigan
Notes: Albion Female Collegiate Institute established in 1850
Jeremiah Hall Hall
President
1853 to 1863
Historical College Name: Granville College/Denison University
Current College Name: Denison University
Location: Granville, Ohio
Notes: Institution became Denison University in 1856
Isidore J. Boudreaux
President
1853 to 1856
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Commander Louis M. Goldsborough
Superintendent
1853 to 1857
Historical College Name: United States Naval Academy
Current College Name: United States Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Notes:
Edward Cooke
President
1853 to 1859
Historical College Name: Lawrence University
Current College Name: Lawrence University
Location: Appleton, Wisconsin
Notes:
Reverend Hosea Ballou II
President
1853 to 1861
Historical College Name: Tufts College/Tufts University
Current College Name: Tufts University
Location: Medford, Massachusetts
Notes: Institution established as Tufts College and renamed Tufts University in 1855
Isaac Ferris
Chancellor
1853 to 1870
Historical College Name: University of the City of New York
Current College Name: New York University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Reverend Joseph Roduit S.J.
President
1853 to 1859
Historical College Name: Preparatory College of the Immaculate Conception
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Notes:
Colonel Theodore Hyatt
President
1853 to 1887
Historical College Name: The Alsop School for Boys/Hyatt’s Select School for Boys/Delaware Military Academy/Pennsylvania Military Academy
Current College Name: Widener University
Location: Chester, Pennsylvania
Notes: Hyatt assumed leadership and renamed the school Hyatt’s Select School for Boys in 1853, Delaware Military Academy in 1859, and Pennsylvania Military Academy upon moving it to Chester, Pennsylvania in 1862.
Marshall Conant
Principal
1853 to 1860
Historical College Name: Bridgewater Normal School
Current College Name: Bridgewater State University
Location: Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Notes:
Robert deSchweinitz
Principal
1853 to 1866
Historical College Name: Salem Female Academy
Current College Name: Salem Academy and College
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
Sidney Harper Marsh
President
1853 to 1879
Historical College Name: Tualitin Academy/Tualitin Academy and Pacific University
Current College Name: Pacific University
Location: Forest Grove, Oregon
Notes: Institution became Tualitin Academy and Pacific University in 1854
Robert S. Thomas
President
1853 to 1855
Historical College Name: William Jewell College
Current College Name: William Jewell College
Location: Liberty, Missouri
Notes:
Daniel Raynes Goodwin
President
1853 to 1860
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
James Walker
President
1853 to 1860
Historical College Name: Harvard University
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
N. P. Stanton
Principal
1853 to 1856
Historical College Name: Brockport Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Location: Brockport, New York
Notes:
Samuel M. Fellows
Principal
1853 to 1857
Historical College Name: Iowa Conference Seminary
Current College Name: Cornell College
Location: Mount Vernon, Iowa
Notes:
William Mitchell Daily
President
1853 to 1859
Historical College Name: Indiana University
Current College Name: Indiana University
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Notes:
Staunton V. Field
Principal
1853 to 1854
Historical College Name: Marshall Academy
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
George Cooke
President
1853 to 1857
Historical College Name: East Tennessee University
Current College Name: University of Tennessee
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Notes:
Martin Brewer Anderson
President
1853 to 1888
Historical College Name: University of Rochester
Current College Name: University of Rochester
Location: Rochester, New York
Notes:
Reverend Daniel Baker
President
1853 to 1857
Historical College Name: Austin College
Current College Name: Austin College
Location: Sherman, Texas
Notes:
Henry Talbird
President
1853 to 1863
Historical College Name: Howard College
Current College Name: Samford University
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notes:
Clark T. Hinman
President
1853 to 1854
Historical College Name: Northwestern University
Current College Name: Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Notes:
James Patterson
President
1853 to 1866
Historical College Name: Westminster Collegiate Institute (PA)
Current College Name: Westminster College
Location: New Wilmington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
James Harlan
President
1853 to 1855
Historical College Name: Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Iowa Wesleyan University
Location: Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Notes:
Horace Mann
President
1853 to 1859
Historical College Name: Antioch College
Current College Name: Antioch College
Location: Yellow Springs, Ohio
Notes:
Alexander Means
President
1854 to 1855
Historical College Name: Emory College
Current College Name: Emory University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Reverend Remigius Tellier S.J.
President
1854 to 1859
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes:
Nathaniel Macon Crawford
President
1854 to 1856
Historical College Name: Mercer University
Current College Name: Mercer University
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
William B. Rankin
President
1854 to 1858
Historical College Name: Greeneville College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes:
Thomas H. Sinex
President
1854 to 1864
Historical College Name: Wesleyan Seminary at Albion and Albion Female Collegiate Institute/Wesleyan Seminary and Female College at Albion/Albion College
Current College Name: Albion College
Location: Albion, Michigan
Notes: Wesleyan Seminary at Albion and Albion Female Collegiate Institute merged to form Wesleyan Seminary and Female College in 1857 and became Albion College in 1861
Charles Ellis
President
1854 to 1869
Historical College Name: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Current College Name: University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Daniel Kirkwood
President
1854 to 1856
Historical College Name: Delaware College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes:
Daniel Curry
President
1854 to 1857
Historical College Name: Indiana Asbury University
Current College Name: DePauw University
Location: Greencastle, Indiana
Notes:
O. N. Stoddard
President, pro tempore
1854 to 1854
Historical College Name: Miami University
Current College Name: Miami University
Location: Oxford, Ohio
Notes:
Osborn L. Smith
President
1854 to 1859
Historical College Name: Wesleyan Female College
Current College Name: Wesleyan College
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
John W. Hall
President
1854 to 1866
Historical College Name: Miami University
Current College Name: Miami University
Location: Oxford, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend Peter J. Blenkinsop S.J.
President
1854 to 1857
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Richard Edwards
Principal
1854 to 1857
Historical College Name: Salem Normal School
Current College Name: Salem State University
Location: Salem, Massachusetts
Notes:
Henry Vethake
Provost
1854 to 1859
Historical College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
David J. Pratt
Principal
1854 to 1864
Historical College Name: Fredonia Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at Fredonia
Location: Fredonia, New York
Notes:
William May Wightman
President
1854 to 1859
Historical College Name: Wofford College
Current College Name: Wofford College
Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina
Notes:
Socrates Maupin
Chairman of the Faculty
1854 to 1870
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Robert Everett Pattison
President
1854 to 1857
Historical College Name: Waterville College
Current College Name: Colby College
Location: Waterville, Maine
Notes:
William R. Boyers
Principal
1854 to 1858
Historical College Name: Marshall Academy
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
Reverend J. H. Sinclair
Principal
1854 to 1857
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Martin C. Briggs
President
1854 to 1856
Historical College Name: University of the Pacific
Current College Name: University of the Pacific
Location: Stockton, California
Notes:
Benjamin S. Ewell
President
1854 to 1888
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
William Augustus Stearns
President
1854 to 1876
Historical College Name: Amherst College
Current College Name: Amherst College
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
Jabez Brooks
President
1854 to 1857
Historical College Name: Hamline University
Current College Name: Hamline University
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Notes:
John Miller Dickey
President
1854 to 1856
Historical College Name: Ashmun Institute
Current College Name: Lincoln University
Location: Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Washington Manly Wingate
President
1854 to 1879
Historical College Name: Wake Forest College
Current College Name: Wake Forest University
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
John Maclean, Jr.
President
1854 to 1868
Historical College Name: College of New Jersey
Current College Name: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Notes:
Henry S. Noyes
President, ad interim
1854 to 1856
Historical College Name: Northwestern University
Current College Name: Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Notes:
Lorin Andrews
President
1854 to 1861
Historical College Name: Kenyon College
Current College Name: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend John S. Verdin S.J.
President
1854 to 1859
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
H. A. Duncan
President
1855 to 1861
Historical College Name: Greenville Woman’s College
Current College Name: Greenville Woman’s College
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Notes:
Henry L. Hitchcock
President
1855 to 1871
Historical College Name: Western Reserve College
Current College Name: Case Western Reserve University
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Notes:
Amos Dean
President
1855 to 1859
Historical College Name: University of Iowa
Current College Name: University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Notes:
James R. Thomas
President
1855 to 1867
Historical College Name: Emory College
Current College Name: Emory University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
John F. Stoddard
Principal
1855 to 1856
Historical College Name: Lancaster County Normal School
Current College Name: Millersville University
Location: Millersville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
George Bigelow
Principal
1855 to 1866
Historical College Name: The State Normal School in Framingham/The Framingham Normal School
Current College Name: Framingham State University
Location: Framingham, Massachusetts
Notes: The institution became The Framingham Normal School in 1865
William F. Phelps
Principal
1855 to 1864
Historical College Name: New Jersey State Normal School
Current College Name: The College of New Jersey
Location: Ewing, New Jersey
Notes:
Simeon W. Harkey
President
1855 to 1857
Historical College Name: Illinois State University (private)
Current College Name: Carthage College
Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Notes:
Israel Ward Andrews
President
1855 to 1885
Historical College Name: Marietta College
Current College Name: Marietta College
Location: Marietta, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend Drury Lacy
President
1855 to 1860
Historical College Name: Davidson College
Current College Name: Davidson College
Location: Davidson, North Carolina
Notes:
Landon Cabell Garland
President
1855 to 1865
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
Barnas Sears
President
1855 to 1867
Historical College Name: Brown University
Current College Name: Brown University
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Notes:
Anthony Maraschi S.J.
President
1855 to 1862
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: University of San Francisco
Location: San Francisco, California
Notes:
John C. Miller
President
1855 to 1866
Historical College Name: Centenary College of Louisiana
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes:
John Wheeler
Principal/President
1855 to 1870
Historical College Name: Baldwin Institute/Baldwin University
Current College Name: Baldwin Wallace University
Location: Berea, Ohio
Notes: Institution became Baldwin University in 1856
Joseph Getchell Binney
President
1855 to 1858
Historical College Name: Columbian College
Current College Name: George Washington University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Reverend William Harnett O.S.A.
President
1855 to 1857
Historical College Name: Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles F. McCay
President
1855 to 1857
Historical College Name: South Carolina College
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
Joseph R. Wilson
Principal
1855 to 1855
Historical College Name: Augusta Female Seminary
Current College Name: Mary Baldwin University
Location: Staunton, Virginia
Notes:
Clinton W. Sears
President
1855 to 1857
Historical College Name: Illinois Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Illinois Wesleyan University
Location: Bloomington, Illinois
Notes:
Emanuel Vogel Gerhart
President
1855 to 1866
Historical College Name: Franklin and Marshall College
Current College Name: Franklin and Marshall College
Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend Calvin Pease
President
1855 to 1861
Historical College Name: University of Vermont
Current College Name: University of Vermont
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Notes:
Mary Atkins
Principal
1855 to 1865
Historical College Name: Young Ladies’ Seminary
Current College Name: Mills College
Location: Oakland, California
Notes:
Major General John Gross Barnard
Superintendent
1855 to 1856
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Randolph S. Foster
President
1856 to 1860
Historical College Name: Northwestern University
Current College Name: Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Notes:
Reverend John J. Lynch C.M.
President
1856 to 1859
Historical College Name: Our Lady of Angels Seminary
Current College Name: Niagara University
Location: Niagara University, New York
Notes:
Major General Richard Delafield
Superintendent
1856 to 1861
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Nicholas Congiato S.J.
President
1856 to 1857
Historical College Name: Santa Clara College
Current College Name: Santa Clara University
Location: Santa Clara, California
Notes:
Maurice Oakley
President
1856 to 1861
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
George Washington Eaton
President
1856 to 1868
Historical College Name: Madison University
Current College Name: Colgate University
Location: Hamilton, New York
Notes:
Shelton Palmer Sanford
President, acting
1856 to 1858
Historical College Name: Mercer University
Current College Name: Mercer University
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
Most Reverend Bernard J. McQuaid
President
1856 to 1857
Historical College Name: Seton Hall College
Current College Name: Seton Hall University
Location: South Orange, New Jersey
Notes:
James P. Wickersham
Principal
1856 to 1866
Historical College Name: Lancaster County Normal School/Millersville State Normal School
Current College Name: Millersville University
Location: Millersville, Pennsylvania
Notes: Institution became Millersville State Normal School in 1859
Albert Lewis Holladay
Appointed president, died
1856 to 1856
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
Ellis James Newlin
President
1856 to 1859
Historical College Name: Delaware College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes:
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
Chancellor
1856 to 1861
Historical College Name: University of Mississippi
Current College Name: University of Mississippi
Location: Oxford, Mississippi
Notes:
Charles Martin
President, acting
1856 to 1857
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend James A. Ryder S.J.
President
1856 to 1857
Historical College Name: Saint Joseph’s College
Current College Name: St. Joseph’s University
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John F. McLaren
Principal
1856 to 1859
Historical College Name: Western University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend David Alexander Wallace
President
1856 to 1878
Historical College Name: Monmouth College (IL)
Current College Name: Monmouth College
Location: Monmouth, Illinois
Notes:
David Burbank
Principal
1856 to 1861
Historical College Name: Brockport Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Location: Brockport, New York
Notes:
John Young
President
1856 to 1858
Historical College Name: North Western Christian University
Current College Name: Butler University
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Notes:
William Wilson Hudson
President
1856 to 1859
Historical College Name: University of Missouri
Current College Name: University of Missouri
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Notes:
John Calvin Knox Milligan
President
1856 to 1858
Historical College Name: Geneva Hall
Current College Name: Geneva College
Location: Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William Halsey
President
1856 to 1860
Historical College Name: Soule University
Current College Name: Southwestern University
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Notes: The roots of Soule became Southwestern University
William J. Maclay
President
1856 to 1857
Historical College Name: University of the Pacific
Current College Name: University of the Pacific
Location: Stockton, California
Notes:
Augustus Woodruff Cowles
President
1856 to 1889
Historical College Name: Elmira Female College
Current College Name: Elmira College
Location: Elmira, New York
Notes:
Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett
Principal
1856 to 1869
Historical College Name: Institute for Colored Youth
Current College Name: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Location: Cheyney, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William H. Marquess
Principal
1856 to 1856
Historical College Name: Augusta Female Seminary
Current College Name: Mary Baldwin University
Location: Staunton, Virginia
Notes:
Lewis Warner Green
President
1856 to 1858
Historical College Name: Transylvania University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
John Pym Carter
President
1856 to 1861
Historical College Name: Ashmun Institute
Current College Name: Lincoln University
Location: Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
Notes:
David H. Cochran
Principal
1856 to 1864
Historical College Name: New York State Normal School
Current College Name: University at Albany, SUNY
Location: Albany, New York
Notes:
Werter Renick Davis
President, acting
1857 to 1858
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Captain George S. Blake
Superintendent
1857 to 1865
Historical College Name: United States Naval Academy
Current College Name: United States Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Notes:
Felix Cicaterri S.J.
President
1857 to 1861
Historical College Name: Santa Clara College
Current College Name: Santa Clara University
Location: Santa Clara, California
Notes:
John Joseph Robinson
President
1857 to 1861
Historical College Name: Maryville College
Current College Name: Maryville College
Location: Maryville, Tennessee
Notes:
William F. Lehmann
President
1857 to 1880
Historical College Name: Capital University
Current College Name: Capital University
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Notes:
Nathaniel Russell Middleton
President
1857 to 1880
Historical College Name: College of Charleston
Current College Name: College of Charleston
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
Reverend Daniel J. Fisher
President
1857 to 1858
Historical College Name: Seton Hall College
Current College Name: Seton Hall University
Location: South Orange, New Jersey
Notes:
Cyrus Nutt
President, acting
1857 to 1858
Historical College Name: Indiana Asbury University
Current College Name: DePauw University
Location: Greencastle, Indiana
Notes:
George Ripley Bliss
President
1857 to 1858
Historical College Name: University at Lewisburg
Current College Name: Bucknell University
Location: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Joseph G. Harlan
Principal
1857 to 1857
Historical College Name: Haverford College
Current College Name: Haverford College
Location: Haverford, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William Thompson
President
1857 to 1861
Historical College Name: William Jewell College
Current College Name: William Jewell College
Location: Liberty, Missouri
Notes:
Elihu Gunn
President
1857 to 1861
Historical College Name: Central University of Iowa
Current College Name: Central College
Location: Pella, Iowa
Notes:
John M.P. Atkinson
President
1857 to 1883
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend Anthony F. Ciampi S.J.
President
1857 to 1861
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend James A. Ward S.J.
President
1857 to 1860
Historical College Name: Saint Joseph’s College
Current College Name: St. Joseph’s University
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Alpheus Crosby
Principal
1857 to 1865
Historical College Name: Salem Normal School
Current College Name: Salem State University
Location: Salem, Massachusetts
Notes:
Richard W. Keeler
President
1857 to 1859
Historical College Name: Cornell College
Current College Name: Cornell College
Location: Mount Vernon, Iowa
Notes: Institution became Cornell College in 1857
George Wilson McPhail
President
1857 to 1863
Historical College Name: Lafayette College
Current College Name: Lafayette College
Location: Easton, Pennsylvania
Notes:
George Minns
Principal
1857 to 1862
Historical College Name: Minn’s Evening Normal School
Current College Name: San Jose State University
Location: San Jose, California
Notes:
Joseph Alden
President
1857 to 1862
Historical College Name: Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
James Tift Champlin
President
1857 to 1873
Historical College Name: Waterville College/Colby University
Current College Name: Colby College
Location: Waterville, Maine
Notes: Institution renamed Colby University in 1867
Frederick R. Brace
Principal
1857 to 1859
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
President
1857 to 1861
Historical College Name: South Carolina College
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
George C. Chandler
President
1857 to 1869
Historical College Name: Baptist College at McMinnville
Current College Name: Linfield University
Location: McMinnville, Oregon
Notes:
Joseph R. Williams
President
1857 to 1859
Historical College Name: Agricultural College of the State of Michigan
Current College Name: Michigan State University
Location: East Lansing, Michigan
Notes:
Benjamin F. Crary
President
1857 to 1861
Historical College Name: Hamline University
Current College Name: Hamline University
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Notes:
Oliver Spencer Munsell
President
1857 to 1873
Historical College Name: Illinois Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Illinois Wesleyan University
Location: Bloomington, Illinois
Notes:
Alexander S. Gibbons
President
1857 to 1859
Historical College Name: University of the Pacific
Current College Name: University of the Pacific
Location: Stockton, California
Notes:
John B. Tinsley
Principal
1857 to 1863
Historical College Name: Augusta Female Seminary
Current College Name: Mary Baldwin University
Location: Staunton, Virginia
Notes:
Charles E. Hovey
President
1857 to 1861
Historical College Name: Illinois State Normal University
Current College Name: Illinois State University
Location: Normal, Illinois
Notes:
Nelson Cobleigh
President
1858 to 1863
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Joseph H. Cummings
President
1858 to 1875
Historical College Name: Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Wesleyan University
Location: Middletown, Connecticut
Notes: Cummings also held a LL.D.
Nathaniel Macon Crawford
President
1858 to 1866
Historical College Name: Mercer University
Current College Name: Mercer University
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
William Morton Reynolds
President
1858 to 1862
Historical College Name: Illinois State University (private)
Current College Name: Carthage College
Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Notes:
Reverend William Clarke S.J.
President
1858 to 1860
Historical College Name: Loyola College (MD)
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes:
Thomas Bowman
President
1858 to 1872
Historical College Name: Indiana Asbury University
Current College Name: DePauw University
Location: Greencastle, Indiana
Notes:
J. A.R. Rogers
Principal
1858 to 1869
Historical College Name: Berea College
Current College Name: Berea College
Location: Berea, Kentucky
Notes:
Justin Rolph Loomis
President
1858 to 1879
Historical College Name: University at Lewisburg
Current College Name: Bucknell University
Location: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Richard Rust
President
1858 to 1862
Historical College Name: Wilberforce University
Current College Name: Wilberforce University
Location: Wilberforce, Ohio
Notes:
Lewis Warner Green
President
1858 to 1863
Historical College Name: Centre College
Current College Name: Centre College
Location: Danville, Kentucky
Notes:
Reverend John H. Dashiell
President
1858 to 1860
Historical College Name: Williamsport Dickinson Seminary
Current College Name: Lycoming College
Location: Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Samuel K. Hoshour
President
1858 to 1861
Historical College Name: North Western Christian University
Current College Name: Butler University
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Notes:
William Wrightman
President
1858 to 1867
Historical College Name: Southern University (Greensboro, AL)
Current College Name: Birmingham-Southern College
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notes:
William D. Carnes
President
1858 to 1860
Historical College Name: East Tennessee University
Current College Name: University of Tennessee
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Notes:
Reverend Abner Jackson
President
1858 to 1867
Historical College Name: Hobart Free College/Hobart College
Current College Name: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Location: Geneva, New York
Notes: Institution renamed Hobart College
Joseph Gibson Hoyt
Chancellor
1858 to 1862
Historical College Name: Washington University
Current College Name: Washington University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Werter Renick Davis
President
1858 to 1862
Historical College Name: Baker University
Current College Name: Baker University
Location: Baldwin City, Kansas
Notes:
Benjamin Hudson Thackston
Principal
1858 to 1861
Historical College Name: Marshall Academy/Marshall College
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes: Institution became Marshall College in 1858
Rufus William Bailey
President
1858 to 1862
Historical College Name: Austin College
Current College Name: Austin College
Location: Sherman, Texas
Notes:
Reverend Lewis F. Kampmann
Head Professor
1858 to 1864
Historical College Name: Moravian College and Theological Seminary
Current College Name: Moravian University
Location: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Harvey Curtis
President
1858 to 1862
Historical College Name: Knox College
Current College Name: Knox College
Location: Galesburg, Illinois
Notes:
John Calvin Smith Smith
President
1858 to 1860
Historical College Name: Geneva Hall
Current College Name: Geneva College
Location: Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John Early S.J.
President
1858 to 1865
Historical College Name: Georgetown University
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Benjamin Kurtz
President
1858 to 1865
Historical College Name: Evangelical Lutheran Missionary Institute
Current College Name: Susquehanna University
Location: Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Abraham Drake
Principal
1858 to 1861
Historical College Name: Transylvania Preparatory School
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Samuel Ware Fisher
President
1858 to 1866
Historical College Name: Hamilton College
Current College Name: Hamilton College
Location: Clinton, New York
Notes:
Anthony Jourdant S.J.
President
1859 to 1862
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes:
Thomas Hill
President
1859 to 1862
Historical College Name: Antioch College
Current College Name: Antioch College
Location: Yellow Springs, Ohio
Notes:
Robert Milligan
President
1859 to 1865
Historical College Name: Kentucky University at Harrodsburg
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Reverend Ferdinand Coosemans S.J.
President
1859 to 1862
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Silas Totten
President
1859 to 1862
Historical College Name: University of Iowa
Current College Name: University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Notes:
Russell Zelotes Mason
President
1859 to 1865
Historical College Name: Lawrence University
Current College Name: Lawrence University
Location: Appleton, Wisconsin
Notes:
Reverend Augustus J. Thébaud S.J.
President
1859 to 1863
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes:
Reverend John O’Reilly C.M.
President
1859 to 1862
Historical College Name: Our Lady of Angels Seminary
Current College Name: Niagara University
Location: Niagara University, New York
Notes:
John Stebbins Lee
Principal
1859 to 1868
Historical College Name: St. Lawrence University, Preparatory Dept.
Current College Name: St. Lawrence University
Location: Canton, New York
Notes:
John J. Lampson
President
1859 to 1860
Historical College Name: Greeneville College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes:
Colonel William Tecumseh Sherman
Superintendent
1859 to 1861
Historical College Name: Seminary of Learning of the State of Louisiana and Military Academy
Current College Name: Louisiana State University
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Notes:
Brother John McMahon O.S.F.
President
1859 to 1862
Historical College Name: St. Francis College
Current College Name: St. Francis College
Location: Brooklyn Heights, New York
Notes:
William Jeremiah Sasnett
President
1859 to 1861
Historical College Name: East Alabama Male College
Current College Name: Auburn University
Location: Auburn, Alabama
Notes:
Evan Pugh
President
1859 to 1864
Historical College Name: Farmer’s High School of Pennsylvania/Agricultural College of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: Pennsylvania State University
Location: State College, Pennsylvania
Notes: Institution became Agricultural College of Pennsylvania in 1862
Very Reverend Pamfilo da Magliano O.F.M.
President
1859 to 1867
Historical College Name: St. Bonaventure College and Seminary
Current College Name: St. Bonaventure University
Location: Saint Bonaventure, New York
Notes:
Major Peter F. Stevens
Superintendent
1859 to 1861
Historical College Name: The South Carolina Military Academy
Current College Name: The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
George F. Wiswell
President, acting
1859 to 1859
Historical College Name: Delaware College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes: Wiswell was a trustee
Most Reverend Bernard J. McQuaid
President
1859 to 1868
Historical College Name: Seton Hall College
Current College Name: Seton Hall University
Location: South Orange, New Jersey
Notes:
John M. Bonnell
President
1859 to 1871
Historical College Name: Wesleyan Female College
Current College Name: Wesleyan College
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
Rathmell Wilson
President, acting
1859 to 1870
Historical College Name: Delaware College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes: Wilson was a trustee and the institution was closed during much of this time
George Woods
Principal/Chancellor
1859 to 1880
Historical College Name: Western University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes: Executive leadership title changed to chancellor in 1870
John Hiram Lathrop
President
1859 to 1860
Historical College Name: Indiana University
Current College Name: Indiana University
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Notes:
Albert Micajah Shipp
President
1859 to 1875
Historical College Name: Wofford College
Current College Name: Wofford College
Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina
Notes:
Samuel M. Fellows
President
1859 to 1863
Historical College Name: Cornell College
Current College Name: Cornell College
Location: Mount Vernon, Iowa
Notes: Fellows served as acting president 1859 to 1860
Reverend George Whitefield Samson
President
1859 to 1871
Historical College Name: Columbian College
Current College Name: George Washington University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
John Morgan
President
1859 to 1859
Historical College Name: Oberlin College
Current College Name: Oberlin College
Location: Oberlin, Ohio
Notes:
Benjamin Hallowell
President
1859 to 1859
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
James Clement Furman
President
1859 to 1879
Historical College Name: Furman University
Current College Name: Furman University
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Notes:
Henry Barnard
Chancellor
1859 to 1860
Historical College Name: University of Wisconsin
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Notes:
Charles Benedict Calvert
President, acting
1859 to 1860
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
Lewis R. Fisk
President
1859 to 1862
Historical College Name: Agricultural College of the State of Michigan/State Agricultural College
Current College Name: Michigan State University
Location: East Lansing, Michigan
Notes: Institution became State Agricultural College in 1861
Edward Bannister
President
1859 to 1867
Historical College Name: University of the Pacific
Current College Name: University of the Pacific
Location: Stockton, California
Notes:
Andrew J. Sutton
Principal
1860 to 1867
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes:
John M. Colby
President
1860 to 1861
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
Henry S. Noyes
President, ad interim
1860 to 1867
Historical College Name: Northwestern University
Current College Name: Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Notes:
Reverend Antonio Usannaz S.J.
President
1860 to 1862
Historical College Name: Preparatory College of the Immaculate Conception
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Notes:
Thomas Milton Gatch
President
1860 to 1865
Historical College Name: Willamette University
Current College Name: Willamette University
Location: Salem, Oregon
Notes:
Albert Gardner Boyden
Principal
1860 to 1906
Historical College Name: Bridgewater Normal School
Current College Name: Bridgewater State University
Location: Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Notes:
Charles N. Sims
President
1860 to 1862
Historical College Name: Valparaiso Male and Female College
Current College Name: Valparaiso University
Location: Valparaiso, Indiana
Notes:
George W. Briggs
Principal
1860 to 1864
Historical College Name: Lasell Female Seminary
Current College Name: Lasell University
Location: Newton, Massachusetts
Notes:
C. C. Baughman
Principal
1860 to 1864
Historical College Name: Susquehanna Female College
Current College Name: Susquehanna University
Location: Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
Notes:
George Loomis
President
1860 to 1875
Historical College Name: Allegheny College
Current College Name: Allegheny College
Location: Meadville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend John Lycan Kirkpatrick
President
1860 to 1866
Historical College Name: Davidson College
Current College Name: Davidson College
Location: Davidson, North Carolina
Notes:
John Brocklesby
President, acting
1860 to 1861
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
Reverend Joseph O’Callaghan S.J.
President
1860 to 1863
Historical College Name: Loyola College (MD)
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes:
Cornelius Conway Felton
President
1860 to 1862
Historical College Name: Harvard University
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Lars Paul Esbjörn
President
1860 to 1863
Historical College Name: Augustana Seminary
Current College Name: Augustana College
Location: Rock Island, Illinois
Notes:
Reverend Feliz-Joseph Barbelin S.J.
President
1860 to 1868
Historical College Name: Saint Joseph’s College
Current College Name: St. Joseph’s University
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Daniel Raynes Goodwin
Provost
1860 to 1868
Historical College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Cyrus Nutt
President
1860 to 1875
Historical College Name: Indiana University
Current College Name: Indiana University
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Notes:
George Franklin Seymour
Warden
1860 to 1861
Historical College Name: St. Stephen’s College
Current College Name: Bard College
Location: Annandale, New York
Notes:
Reverend Thompson Mitchell
President
1860 to 1869
Historical College Name: Williamsport Dickinson Seminary
Current College Name: Lycoming College
Location: Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Notes:
J. J. Ridley
President
1860 to 1862
Historical College Name: East Tennessee University
Current College Name: University of Tennessee
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Notes:
Benjamin Blake Minor
President
1860 to 1862
Historical College Name: University of Missouri
Current College Name: University of Missouri
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Notes:
John H. Post
Principal
1860 to 1860
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
George W. Carter
President
1860 to 1861
Historical College Name: Soule University
Current College Name: Southwestern University
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Notes: The roots of Soule became Southwestern University
Andrew Adgate Lipscomb
Chancellor
1860 to 1874
Historical College Name: University of Georgia
Current College Name: University of Georgia
Location: Athens, Georgia
Notes:
Frederick Merrick
President
1860 to 1873
Historical College Name: Ohio Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Ohio Wesleyan University
Location: Delaware, Ohio
Notes:
Jonathan Blanchard
President
1860 to 1882
Historical College Name: Wheaton College (IL)
Current College Name: Wheaton College
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
Notes:
M. McN. Walsh
Principal
1860 to 1861
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Brother John Stintzi
President
1860 to 1876
Historical College Name: St. Mary’s Institute (OH)
Current College Name: University of Dayton
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Notes:
Herman Merrills Johnson
President
1860 to 1868
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John Work Scott
President
1860 to 1860
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
Benjamin L. Lang
President, acting
1861 to 1863
Historical College Name: Kenyon College
Current College Name: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Notes:
C. J. Redford
President
1861 to 1862
Historical College Name: Greenville Woman’s College
Current College Name: Greenville Woman’s College
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Notes:
Henry Onderdonk
President
1861 to 1864
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
General Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard
Superintendent
1861 to 1861
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
John Schultz
President
1861 to 1865
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Major General Richard Delafield
Superintendent
1861 to 1861
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Burchard Villiger S.J.
President
1861 to 1865
Historical College Name: Santa Clara College
Current College Name: Santa Clara University
Location: Santa Clara, California
Notes:
Anthony Vallas
Superintendent
1861 to 1862
Historical College Name: Seminary of Learning of the State of Louisiana and Military Academy
Current College Name: Louisiana State University
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Notes:
William Wishart
Vice President
1861 to 1867
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes: Presidency vacant during these years
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton Bowman
Superintendent
1861 to 1864
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Major James B. White
Superintendent
1861 to 1865
Historical College Name: The South Carolina Military Academy
Current College Name: The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
George Washington Baines
President
1861 to 1863
Historical College Name: Baylor University
Current College Name: Baylor University
Location: Waco, Texas
Notes:
Samuel Eliot
President
1861 to 1864
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
Peter Laurentius Larsen
President
1861 to 1902
Historical College Name: Luther College
Current College Name: Luther College
Location: Decorah, Iowa
Notes:
Reverend James Clark S.J.
President
1861 to 1867
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend P. J. Williams
Principal
1861 to 1863
Historical College Name: Brockport Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Location: Brockport, New York
Notes:
Augustine Austin Smith
President
1861 to 1883
Historical College Name: Plainfield College/North-Western College
Current College Name: North Central College
Location: Naperville, Illinois
Notes: Institution became North-Western College in 1864
Allen R. Benton
President
1861 to 1868
Historical College Name: North Western Christian University
Current College Name: Butler University
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Notes:
Asa Shinn Mercer
President
1861 to 1863
Historical College Name: Territorial University of Washington
Current College Name: University of Washington
Location: Seattle, Washington
Notes:
Edward Austin Sheldon
Principal
1861 to 1897
Historical College Name: Oswego Primary Teachers’ Training School/Oswego State Normal and Training School
Current College Name: State University of New York at Oswego
Location: Oswego, New York
Notes: Institution became Oswego State Normal and Training School (shortened to Oswego Normal School) in 1865
J. M. Brown
Teacher
1861 to 1861
Historical College Name: Marshall College
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes: Brown served as the acting leader, followed by Daniel Webster Thrush in 1861
Thomas Richey
Warden
1861 to 1863
Historical College Name: St. Stephen’s College
Current College Name: Bard College
Location: Annandale, New York
Notes:
Maximillian LaBorde
Chairman of the Faculty
1861 to 1865
Historical College Name: South Carolina College
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
Daniel Webster Thrush
Teacher
1861 to 1861
Historical College Name: Marshall College
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes: Webster followed J.M. Brown as acting leader in 1861
Milo P. Jewett
President
1861 to 1864
Historical College Name: Vassar Female College
Current College Name: Vassar College
Location: Poughkeepsie, New York
Notes:
Jabez Brooks
President
1861 to 1869
Historical College Name: Hamline University
Current College Name: Hamline University
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Notes:
John Whelan Sterling
Vice Chancellor
1861 to 1867
Historical College Name: University of Wisconsin
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Notes:
William Halsey
President
1861 to 1868
Historical College Name: Soule University
Current College Name: Southwestern University
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Notes: The roots of Soule became Southwestern University
John Wynne Martin
President
1861 to 1865
Historical College Name: Ashmun Institute
Current College Name: Lincoln University
Location: Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
Notes:
James Kennedy Patterson
Principal
1861 to 1865
Historical College Name: Transylvania Preparatory School
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
David M. DeWitt
Principal
1861 to 1862
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Charles H. Haywood
Principal
1862 to 1863
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Reverend Joseph Torrey
President
1862 to 1866
Historical College Name: University of Vermont
Current College Name: University of Vermont
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Notes:
Richard Edwards
President
1862 to 1876
Historical College Name: Illinois State Normal University
Current College Name: Illinois State University
Location: Normal, Illinois
Notes:
Aloysius Curioz S.J.
President
1862 to 1865
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes:
Reverend Austin Craig
President
1862 to 1865
Historical College Name: Antioch College
Current College Name: Antioch College
Location: Yellow Springs, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend Alonzo Ames Miner
President
1862 to 1875
Historical College Name: Tufts University
Current College Name: Tufts University
Location: Medford, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend Thomas O’Neil S.J.
President
1862 to 1868
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
C. R. Twitty
President
1862 to 1863
Historical College Name: Greenville Woman’s College
Current College Name: Greenville Woman’s College
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Notes:
Oliver M. Spencer
President
1862 to 1867
Historical College Name: University of Iowa
Current College Name: University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Notes:
John Burns Weston
President, acting
1862 to 1865
Historical College Name: Antioch College
Current College Name: Antioch College
Location: Yellow Springs, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend Thomas J. Smith C.M.
President
1862 to 1863
Historical College Name: Our Lady of Angels Seminary/The College and Seminary of Our Lady of the Angels
Current College Name: Niagara University
Location: Niagara University, New York
Notes: Institution became The College and Seminary of Our Lady of the Angels in 1863
Joseph Ferrand Tuttle
President
1862 to 1892
Historical College Name: Wabash College
Current College Name: Wabash College
Location: Crawfordsville, Indiana
Notes:
Brother Cyprian O’Beirne O.S.F.
President
1862 to 1863
Historical College Name: St. Francis College
Current College Name: St. Francis College
Location: Brooklyn Heights, New York
Notes:
Reverend Felix Benausse S.J.
President
1862 to 1874
Historical College Name: Preparatory College of the Immaculate Conception
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Notes:
Erastus H. Staley
President
1862 to 1864
Historical College Name: Valparaiso Male and Female College
Current College Name: Valparaiso University
Location: Valparaiso, Indiana
Notes:
Simeon W. Harkey
President
1862 to 1866
Historical College Name: Illinois State University (private)
Current College Name: Carthage College
Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Notes:
W. E.M. Linfield
Superintendent
1862 to 1863
Historical College Name: Seminary of Learning of the State of Louisiana and Military Academy
Current College Name: Louisiana State University
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Notes:
Samuel James Gummere
Principal/President
1862 to 1874
Historical College Name: Haverford College
Current College Name: Haverford College
Location: Haverford, Pennsylvania
Notes: Gunmere’s title was changed to president in 1864
E. H. Scarff
President
1862 to 1871
Historical College Name: Central University of Iowa
Current College Name: Central College
Location: Pella, Iowa
Notes:
William Henry Campbell
President
1862 to 1882
Historical College Name: Rutgers College
Current College Name: Rutgers University
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Notes:
William Barton Rogers
Principal/President
1862 to 1870
Historical College Name: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current College Name: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes: Rogers was appointed as principal of the School of Industrial Science and both his title and the MIT’s name changed quickly
Thomas Hill
President
1862 to 1868
Historical College Name: Harvard University
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
Nicholas Congiato S.J.
President
1862 to 1865
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: University of San Francisco
Location: San Francisco, California
Notes:
Reverend Eric Norelius
Founder
1862 to 1863
Historical College Name: Red Wing Academy
Current College Name: Gustavus Adolphus College
Location: St. Peter, Minnesota
Notes: Unclear if this institution was called Red Wing Academy or Minnesota Elementarskela, but it would become St. Angar’s Academy in 1863 and Gustavus Adolphus College in 1876
Ahira Holmes
Principal
1862 to 1865
Historical College Name: California State Normal School
Current College Name: San Jose State University
Location: San Jose, California
Notes: Founded as Minn’s Evening Normal School, the institution became California State Normal School in 1862
David Hunter Riddle
President
1862 to 1865
Historical College Name: Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William Chauvenet
Chancellor
1862 to 1869
Historical College Name: Washington University
Current College Name: Washington University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
George Washington Paddock
President
1862 to 1864
Historical College Name: Baker University
Current College Name: Baker University
Location: Baldwin City, Kansas
Notes:
Reverend Samuel McKinney
President
1862 to 1871
Historical College Name: Austin College
Current College Name: Austin College
Location: Sherman, Texas
Notes:
Theophilus C. Abbot
President
1862 to 1885
Historical College Name: State Agricultural College
Current College Name: Michigan State University
Location: East Lansing, Michigan
Notes:
Samson Talbot
President
1863 to 1873
Historical College Name: Denison University
Current College Name: Denison University
Location: Granville, Ohio
Notes:
Charles Short
President
1863 to 1867
Historical College Name: Kenyon College
Current College Name: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Notes:
Henry Gallup
Principal
1863 to 1865
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Reverend Edward Doucet S.J.
President
1863 to 1865
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes:
Asa Dodge Smith
President
1863 to 1877
Historical College Name: Dartmouth College
Current College Name: Dartmouth College
Location: Hanover, New Hampshire
Notes:
James Clement Furman
President
1863 to 1864
Historical College Name: Greenville Woman’s College
Current College Name: Greenville Woman’s College
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Notes:
Robert Allyn
President
1863 to 1874
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Erastus Otis Haven
President
1863 to 1869
Historical College Name: University of Michigan
Current College Name: University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Notes:
William E. Merriman
President
1863 to 1876
Historical College Name: Brockway College/Ripon College
Current College Name: Ripon College
Location: Ripon, Wisconsin
Notes: Institution became Ripon College in 1864
Reverend Robert E. Rice C.M.
President
1863 to 1878
Historical College Name: The College and Seminary of Our Lady of the Angels
Current College Name: Niagara University
Location: Niagara University, New York
Notes:
Brother Paul St. Leger O.S.F.
President
1863 to 1866
Historical College Name: St. Francis College
Current College Name: St. Francis College
Location: Brooklyn Heights, New York
Notes:
William Trigg Gannaway
President
1863 to 1865
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Duke University
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Notes:
William A. Seay
Superintendent
1863 to 1863
Historical College Name: Seminary of Learning of the State of Louisiana and Military Academy/Louisiana State University/Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Louisiana State University
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Notes:
Reverend Anthony F. Ciampi S.J.
President
1863 to 1866
Historical College Name: Loyola College (MD)
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes:
Daniel A. Payne
President
1863 to 1876
Historical College Name: Wilberforce University
Current College Name: Wilberforce University
Location: Wilberforce, Ohio
Notes:
William L. Breckinridge
President
1863 to 1868
Historical College Name: Centre College
Current College Name: Centre College
Location: Danville, Kentucky
Notes:
Tuve Nils Hasselquist
President
1863 to 1891
Historical College Name: Augustana Seminary/Augustana College and Theological Seminary
Current College Name: Augustana College
Location: Rock Island, Illinois
Notes: Institution became Augustana College and Theological Seminary in 1865
Johannes Bapst S.J.
President
1863 to 1869
Historical College Name: Boston College
Current College Name: Boston College
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Notes:
Malcolm MacVicar
Principal
1863 to 1867
Historical College Name: Brockport Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Location: Brockport, New York
Notes:
Reverend Andrew Jackson
Principal
1863 to 1873
Historical College Name: St. Ansgar’s Academy
Current College Name: Gustavus Adolphus College
Location: St. Peter, Minnesota
Notes:
William Cassady Cattell
President
1863 to 1883
Historical College Name: Lafayette College
Current College Name: Lafayette College
Location: Easton, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William Fletcher King
President
1863 to 1873
Historical College Name: Cornell College
Current College Name: Cornell College
Location: Mount Vernon, Iowa
Notes: King served as acting president 1863 to 1865
Reverend John Harrington
President
1863 to 1863
Historical College Name: Saint Mary’s College of California
Current College Name: St. Mary’s College of California
Location: Moraga, California
Notes:
William Edward Barnard
President
1863 to 1866
Historical College Name: Territorial University of Washington
Current College Name: University of Washington
Location: Seattle, Washington
Notes:
John G. Sanburn
President, acting
1863 to 1863
Historical College Name: Knox College
Current College Name: Knox College
Location: Galesburg, Illinois
Notes:
Robert Brinkerhoff Fairbairn
Warden
1863 to 1898
Historical College Name: St. Stephen’s College
Current College Name: Bard College
Location: Annandale, New York
Notes:
Joseph J. Denison
President
1863 to 1873
Historical College Name: Kansas State Agricultural College
Current College Name: Kansas State University
Location: Manhattan, Kansas
Notes:
Reverend Peter Joseph Grey
President
1863 to 1868
Historical College Name: Saint Mary’s College of California
Current College Name: St. Mary’s College of California
Location: Moraga, California
Notes:
William S. Curtis
President
1863 to 1868
Historical College Name: Knox College
Current College Name: Knox College
Location: Galesburg, Illinois
Notes:
Salina Cordelia Hite Mason
Teacher
1863 to 1867
Historical College Name: Marshall College
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes: Mason assumed responsibility for the management of the school during the interregnum period between the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church sold the property and the institution became a state institution.
Mary Julia Baldwin
Principal
1863 to 1897
Historical College Name: Augusta Female Seminary/Mary Baldwin Seminary
Current College Name: Mary Baldwin University
Location: Staunton, Virginia
Notes: Institution became Mary Baldwin Seminary in 1895
Oren Burbank Cheney
President
1863 to 1894
Historical College Name: Bates College
Current College Name: Bates College
Location: Lewiston, Maine
Notes:
Oliver C. Arey
Principal
1864 to 1867
Historical College Name: New York State Normal School
Current College Name: University at Albany, SUNY
Location: Albany, New York
Notes:
Henry Flagg French
President
1864 to 1866
Historical College Name: Massachusetts Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
George B. Jocelyn
President
1864 to 1869
Historical College Name: Albion College
Current College Name: Albion College
Location: Albion, Michigan
Notes:
Nicholas B. Worthington
President
1864 to 1867
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
John S. Hart
Principal
1864 to 1871
Historical College Name: New Jersey State Normal School
Current College Name: The College of New Jersey
Location: Ewing, New Jersey
Notes:
Edward Miner Gallaudet
President
1864 to 1910
Historical College Name: National College for the Deaf and Dumb/National Deaf-Mute College/Gallaudet College
Current College Name: Gallaudet University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes: Institution became National Deaf-Mute College in 1865 and Gallaudet College in 1894
William Henry Allen
President
1864 to 1866
Historical College Name: Agricultural College of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: Pennsylvania State University
Location: State College, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles Hallette Judson
President
1864 to 1878
Historical College Name: Greenville Woman’s College
Current College Name: Greenville Woman’s College
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Notes:
Charles W. Cushing
Principal
1864 to 1874
Historical College Name: Lasell Female Seminary
Current College Name: Lasell University
Location: Newton, Massachusetts
Notes:
B. Wilson Smith
President
1864 to 1867
Historical College Name: Valparaiso Male and Female College
Current College Name: Valparaiso University
Location: Valparaiso, Indiana
Notes:
William Nast
President
1864 to 1893
Historical College Name: German Wallace College
Current College Name: Baldwin Wallace University
Location: Berea, Ohio
Notes:
Major General Zealous Bates Tower
Superintendent
1864 to 1864
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
John Milton Gregory
President
1864 to 1867
Historical College Name: Kalamazoo College
Current College Name: Kalamazoo College
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Notes:
William Carey Crane
President
1864 to 1885
Historical College Name: Baylor University
Current College Name: Baylor University
Location: Waco, Texas
Notes:
Homer T. Fuller
Principal
1864 to 1867
Historical College Name: Fredonia Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at Fredonia
Location: Fredonia, New York
Notes:
John Brocklesby
President, acting
1864 to 1864
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
Brigadier General George Washington Cullum
Superintendent
1864 to 1866
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
John Barrett Kerfoot
President
1864 to 1866
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
Edward Parrish
President
1864 to 1871
Historical College Name: Swarthmore College
Current College Name: Swarthmore College
Location: Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
President
1864 to 1889
Historical College Name: Columbia College
Current College Name: Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Reverend Lewis R. Huebener
President
1864 to 1867
Historical College Name: Moravian College and Theological Seminary
Current College Name: Moravian University
Location: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Leonard Leidy Hartman
President
1864 to 1865
Historical College Name: Baker University
Current College Name: Baker University
Location: Baldwin City, Kansas
Notes:
John Wesley Johnson
President
1864 to 1867
Historical College Name: Baptist College at McMinnville
Current College Name: Linfield University
Location: McMinnville, Oregon
Notes:
John Raymond
President
1864 to 1878
Historical College Name: Vassar Female College/Vassar College
Current College Name: Vassar College
Location: Poughkeepsie, New York
Notes: Institution became Vassar College in 1867
Isaac Norton Rendall
President
1865 to 1906
Historical College Name: Ashmun Institute/Lincoln University (PA.)
Current College Name: Lincoln University
Location: Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
Notes: Institution became Lincoln University in 1866
Robert E. Lee
President
1865 to 1870
Historical College Name: Washington College
Current College Name: Washington and Lee University
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Notes:
Cyrus Taggart Mills
President
1865 to 1884
Historical College Name: Young Ladies’ Seminary/Mills Seminary and College
Current College Name: Mills College
Location: Oakland, California
Notes: Institution became Mills Seminary and College in 1877
Robert W. Oliver
Chancellor
1865 to 1867
Historical College Name: University of Kansas
Current College Name: University of Kansas
Location: Lawrence, Kansas
Notes:
Andrew Dickson White
President
1865 to 1885
Historical College Name: Cornell University
Current College Name: Cornell University
Location: Ithaca, New York
Notes:
Reverend Patrick Dillon C.S.C.
President
1865 to 1866
Historical College Name: University of Notre Dame
Current College Name: University of Notre Dame
Location: South Bend, Indiana
Notes:
John Bryan Bowman
Regent
1865 to 1878
Historical College Name: Kentucky University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Rear Admiral David D. Porter
Superintendent
1865 to 1869
Historical College Name: United States Naval Academy
Current College Name: United States Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Notes:
George McKendree Steele
President
1865 to 1879
Historical College Name: Lawrence University
Current College Name: Lawrence University
Location: Appleton, Wisconsin
Notes:
Walter H. Hill
President
1865 to 1869
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Leonard Jackson Powell
President, interim
1865 to 1865
Historical College Name: Willamette University
Current College Name: Willamette University
Location: Salem, Oregon
Notes:
Reverend William Moylan S.J.
President
1865 to 1868
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes:
John Newton Waddel
Chancellor
1865 to 1874
Historical College Name: University of Mississippi
Current College Name: University of Mississippi
Location: Oxford, Mississippi
Notes:
Aloysius Masnata S.J.
President
1865 to 1868
Historical College Name: Santa Clara College
Current College Name: Santa Clara University
Location: Santa Clara, California
Notes:
Joseph Henry Wythe
President
1865 to 1867
Historical College Name: Willamette University
Current College Name: Willamette University
Location: Salem, Oregon
Notes:
William Stevenson Doak
President
1865 to 1882
Historical College Name: Tusculum College/Greeneville and Tusculum College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes: Tusculum College merged with Greeneville College in 1868
David French Boyd
Superintendent/President
1865 to 1880
Historical College Name: Seminary of Learning of the State of Louisiana and Military Academy/Louisiana State University/Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Louisiana State University
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Notes: Boyd’s title changed to president in 1877; Institution became Louisiana State University in 1870. The agricultural and mechanical branch was established in New Orleans in 1874 and the two merged in 1877.
Daniel Barnard Hagar
Principal
1865 to 1896
Historical College Name: Salem Normal School
Current College Name: Salem State University
Location: Salem, Massachusetts
Notes:
William Asa Finley
President
1865 to 1872
Historical College Name: Corvallis College/Corvallis State Agricultural College
Current College Name: Oregon State University
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Notes: Institution became Corvallis State Agricultural College in 1868
Burchard Villiger S.J.
President
1865 to 1866
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: University of San Francisco
Location: San Francisco, California
Notes:
Leonard Waterman
Principal
1865 to 1866
Historical College Name: Baltimore Normal School for Colored Teachers
Current College Name: Bowie State University
Location: Prince George’s County, Maryland
Notes:
Reverend Ambrose A. Mullen O.S.A.
President
1865 to 1869
Historical College Name: Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes:
George Magoun
President
1865 to 1884
Historical College Name: Iowa College
Current College Name: Grinnell College
Location: Grinnell, Iowa
Notes:
Nathaniel Macon Crawford
President
1865 to 1871
Historical College Name: Georgetown College
Current College Name: Georgetown College
Location: Georgetown, Kentucky
Notes:
David Porter Mayhew
Principal
1865 to 1870
Historical College Name: Michigan State Normal School
Current College Name: Eastern Michigan University
Location: Ypsilanti, Michigan
Notes:
Jonathan Macomber Allen
President
1865 to 1892
Historical College Name: Alfred University
Current College Name: Alfred University
Location: Alfred, New York
Notes: Allen served as acting president 1865 to 1867
Sophia D. Stoddard
Principal
1865 to 1867
Historical College Name: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Current College Name: Mount Holyoke College
Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts
Notes:
George Minns
Principal
1865 to 1866
Historical College Name: California State Normal School
Current College Name: San Jose State University
Location: San Jose, California
Notes:
Thomas W. Humes
President
1865 to 1883
Historical College Name: East Tennessee University/University of Tennessee
Current College Name: University of Tennessee
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Notes:
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
President
1865 to 1868
Historical College Name: Howard College
Current College Name: Samford University
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notes:
John Hiram Lathrop
President
1865 to 1866
Historical College Name: University of Missouri
Current College Name: University of Missouri
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Notes:
Adam Martin
President
1865 to 1869
Historical College Name: Wisconsin University/Northwestern College
Current College Name: Northwestern College
Location: Watertown, Wisconsin
Notes: Known as Wisconsin University and Northwestern College (or university)
Nathan Robinson Johnston
President
1865 to 1867
Historical College Name: Geneva Hall
Current College Name: Geneva College
Location: Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Robert Woodward Barnwell
Chairman of the Faculty
1865 to 1873
Historical College Name: South Carolina College/University of South Carolina
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes: Name changed to University of South Carolina in 1866
Henry Ziegler
President
1865 to 1881
Historical College Name: Evangelical Lutheran Missionary Institute
Current College Name: Susquehanna University
Location: Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John Wesley Locke
President
1865 to 1866
Historical College Name: Baker University
Current College Name: Baker University
Location: Baldwin City, Kansas
Notes:
Henry Martin Tupper
President
1865 to 1893
Historical College Name: Raleigh Theological Institute/Shaw Collegiate Institute/Shaw University
Current College Name: Shaw University
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Notes: Institution became Shaw Collegiate Institute in 1870 and Shaw University in 1875
John Flack Winslow
President
1865 to 1868
Historical College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Current College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location: Troy, New York
Notes:
John Wesley Horner
President
1866 to 1867
Historical College Name: Baker University
Current College Name: Baker University
Location: Baldwin City, Kansas
Notes:
Samuel Gilman Brown
President
1866 to 1881
Historical College Name: Hamilton College
Current College Name: Hamilton College
Location: Clinton, New York
Notes:
Paul Ansel Chadbourne
President
1866 to 1867
Historical College Name: Massachusetts Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
McFadden Alexander Newell
Principal
1866 to 1890
Historical College Name: Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University)
Current College Name: Towson University
Location: Towson, Maryland
Notes:
Tiberius G. Jones
President
1866 to 1869
Historical College Name: Richmond College
Current College Name: University of Richmond
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Notes:
James Burrill Angell
President
1866 to 1871
Historical College Name: University of Vermont
Current College Name: University of Vermont
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Notes:
William K. Pendleton
President
1866 to 1887
Historical College Name: Bethany College
Current College Name: Bethany College
Location: Bethany, West Virginia
Notes:
Annie Johnson
Principal
1866 to 1875
Historical College Name: The Framingham Normal School
Current College Name: Framingham State University
Location: Framingham, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend William Corby C.S.C.
President
1866 to 1872
Historical College Name: University of Notre Dame
Current College Name: University of Notre Dame
Location: South Bend, Indiana
Notes:
Jared Hasbrouck
Principal
1866 to 1868
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Maximilian E. Grunert
Principal
1866 to 1877
Historical College Name: Salem Female Academy
Current College Name: Salem Academy and College
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
Edward Brooks
Principal
1866 to 1883
Historical College Name: Millersville State Normal School
Current College Name: Millersville University
Location: Millersville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
George Washington Hosmer
President
1866 to 1872
Historical College Name: Antioch College
Current College Name: Antioch College
Location: Yellow Springs, Ohio
Notes:
James Ferguson Dowdell
President
1866 to 1872
Historical College Name: East Alabama Male College
Current College Name: Auburn University
Location: Auburn, Alabama
Notes:
George Washington Custis Lee
President
1866 to 1866
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
Henry Holcombe Tucker
President
1866 to 1871
Historical College Name: Mercer University
Current College Name: Mercer University
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
John S. Ermentrout
Principal
1866 to 1871
Historical College Name: Keystone State Normal School
Current College Name: Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Location: Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Richard Baxter Foster
Principal
1866 to 1870
Historical College Name: Lincoln Institute
Current College Name: Lincoln University of Missouri
Location: Jefferson City, Missouri
Notes:
Philip Phelps, Jr.
President
1866 to 1878
Historical College Name: Hope College
Current College Name: Hope College
Location: Holland, Michigan
Notes:
Robert B. Stanton
President
1866 to 1871
Historical College Name: Miami University
Current College Name: Miami University
Location: Oxford, Ohio
Notes:
John Fraser
President
1866 to 1868
Historical College Name: Agricultural College of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: Pennsylvania State University
Location: State College, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend George Wilson McPhail
President
1866 to 1871
Historical College Name: Davidson College
Current College Name: Davidson College
Location: Davidson, North Carolina
Notes:
Jonathan Edwards
President
1866 to 1869
Historical College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Brother Jerome Magner O.S.F.
President
1866 to 1872
Historical College Name: St. Francis College
Current College Name: St. Francis College
Location: Brooklyn Heights, New York
Notes:
Colonel Thomas C. Johnson
President
1866 to 1868
Historical College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Current College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Location: Ashland, Virginia
Notes:
Braxton Craven
President
1866 to 1882
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Duke University
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Notes:
Benjamin W. McDonnold
President
1866 to 1873
Historical College Name: Cumberland University
Current College Name: Cumberland University
Location: Lebanon, Tennessee
Notes:
William H. Watkins
President
1866 to 1871
Historical College Name: Centenary College of Louisiana
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes:
Harvey Denison Kitchel
President
1866 to 1873
Historical College Name: Middlebury College
Current College Name: Middlebury College
Location: Middlebury, Vermont
Notes:
Reverend John D. Early S.J.
President
1866 to 1870
Historical College Name: Loyola College (MD)
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes:
Charles Todd Quintard
Vice Chancellor
1866 to 1872
Historical College Name: University of the South
Current College Name: The University of the South
Location: Sewanee, Tennessee
Notes: Institution was also known as Sewanee, Sewanee College, or Sewanee University; Vice chancellor selected as the title for the chief executive
Samuel Shattuck
President, acting
1866 to 1867
Historical College Name: Norwich University
Current College Name: Norwich University
Location: Northfield, Vermont
Notes:
Brigadier General Thomas Gamble Pitcher
Superintendent
1866 to 1871
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Henry J. Carver
Principal
1866 to 1871
Historical College Name: Bloomsburg Literary Institute/Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School
Current College Name: Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Location: Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Notes: Institution became Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School in 1869
Nicholas Congiato S.J.
President
1866 to 1869
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: University of San Francisco
Location: San Francisco, California
Notes:
Thomas Rhys Vickroy
President
1866 to 1871
Historical College Name: Lebanon Valley College
Current College Name: Lebanon Valley College
Location: Annville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John Brocklesby
President, acting
1866 to 1867
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
Henry Coppee
President
1866 to 1875
Historical College Name: Lehigh University
Current College Name: Lehigh University
Location: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Notes:
H. F. Hartwell
Principal
1866 to 1869
Historical College Name: Baltimore Normal School for Colored Teachers
Current College Name: Bowie State University
Location: Prince George’s County, Maryland
Notes:
Laurens Perseus Hickok
President
1866 to 1868
Historical College Name: Union College
Current College Name: Union College
Location: Schenectady, New York
Notes:
James Harris Fairchild
President
1866 to 1889
Historical College Name: Oberlin College
Current College Name: Oberlin College
Location: Oberlin, Ohio
Notes: Oberlin Conservatory became part of Oberlin College in 1867
John Williamson Nevin
President
1866 to 1876
Historical College Name: Franklin and Marshall College
Current College Name: Franklin and Marshall College
Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Henry P. Carlton
Principal
1866 to 1867
Historical College Name: California State Normal School
Current College Name: San Jose State University
Location: San Jose, California
Notes:
Bernard A. Maguire S.J.
President
1866 to 1870
Historical College Name: Georgetown University
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Asa Dodge Smith
President, Board of Trustees
1866 to 1877
Historical College Name: New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts
Current College Name: University of New Hampshire
Location: Durham, New Hampshire
Notes: New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts existed as a division of Dartmouth College at this time
Walter L. Rankin
President
1866 to 1871
Historical College Name: Carroll College
Current College Name: Carroll University
Location: Waukesha, Wisconsin
Notes: operations then suspended between 1871 and 1893
George Fred Whitworth
President
1866 to 1867
Historical College Name: Territorial University of Washington
Current College Name: University of Washington
Location: Seattle, Washington
Notes: Institution was then closed between 1867 and 1869
Daniel Read
President
1866 to 1876
Historical College Name: University of Missouri
Current College Name: University of Missouri
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Notes:
Paul Ansel Chadbourne
President
1867 to 1870
Historical College Name: University of Wisconsin
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Notes:
Thomas H. Sinex
President
1867 to 1872
Historical College Name: University of the Pacific
Current College Name: University of the Pacific
Location: Stockton, California
Notes:
Samuel B. Woolworth
Principal, acting
1867 to 1867
Historical College Name: New York State Normal School
Current College Name: University at Albany, SUNY
Location: Albany, New York
Notes:
Elial Jay Rice
President
1867 to 1868
Historical College Name: Baker University
Current College Name: Baker University
Location: Baldwin City, Kansas
Notes:
Robert C. Berkeley
Principal
1867 to 1873
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes:
Reverend William J. Monteith
President
1867 to 1868
Historical College Name: Albany Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Lewis and Clark College
Location: Albany, Oregon
Notes:
Luther M. Smith
President
1867 to 1871
Historical College Name: Emory College
Current College Name: Emory University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Joseph Alden
Principal
1867 to 1882
Historical College Name: New York State Normal School
Current College Name: University at Albany, SUNY
Location: Albany, New York
Notes:
Samuel Harris
President
1867 to 1871
Historical College Name: Bowdoin College
Current College Name: Bowdoin College
Location: Brunswick, Maine
Notes:
John Fraser
Chancellor
1867 to 1874
Historical College Name: University of Kansas
Current College Name: University of Kansas
Location: Lawrence, Kansas
Notes:
William Smith Clark
President
1867 to 1879
Historical College Name: Massachusetts Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
James Kent Stone
President
1867 to 1868
Historical College Name: Kenyon College
Current College Name: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Notes:
Nathan Ransom Leonard
President, acting
1867 to 1868
Historical College Name: University of Iowa
Current College Name: University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Notes:
Levi Stockbridge
President, acting
1867 to 1867
Historical College Name: Massachusetts Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
Robert Harris
Principal
1867 to 1880
Historical College Name: Howard School/State Colored Normal School
Current College Name: Fayetteville State university
Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina
Notes: Institution established as the Howard School and renamed State Colored Normal School in 1877
Barnabas Coffin Hobbs
President
1867 to 1868
Historical College Name: Earlham College
Current College Name: Earlham College
Location: Earlham, Indiana
Notes:
James Thomas Ward
President
1867 to 1886
Historical College Name: Western Maryland College
Current College Name: McDaniel College
Location: Westminster, Maryland
Notes:
Alexander Martin
President
1867 to 1875
Historical College Name: Agricultural College of West Virginia/West Virginia University
Current College Name: West Virginia University
Location: Morgantown, West Virginia
Notes: Institution became West Virginia University in 1968
Charles Landon Carter Minor
President
1867 to 1868
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
R. G. Campbell
President
1867 to 1871
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes:
Joseph Baldwin
President
1867 to 1881
Historical College Name: North Missouri Normal and Commercial School/North Missouri Normal School/First District Normal School
Current College Name: Truman State University
Location: Kirksville, Missouri
Notes: Institution became North Missouri Normal School in 1868 and First District Normal School in 1870
Luther T. Woodward
President, interim
1867 to 1868
Historical College Name: Willamette University
Current College Name: Willamette University
Location: Salem, Oregon
Notes:
John Milton Gregory
President
1867 to 1880
Historical College Name: Illinois Industrial University
Current College Name: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: Urbana, Illinois
Notes:
Thomas Bond Wood
President
1867 to 1869
Historical College Name: Valparaiso Male and Female College
Current College Name: Valparaiso University
Location: Valparaiso, Indiana
Notes:
Walter Hillman
President
1867 to 1873
Historical College Name: Mississippi College
Current College Name: Mississippi College
Location: Clinton, Mississippi
Notes:
Reverend Robert W. Brady S.J.
President
1867 to 1869
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Joseph Allen
Principal
1867 to 1869
Historical College Name: Fredonia Normal School
Current College Name: State University of New York at Fredonia
Location: Fredonia, New York
Notes:
Charles Brandon Boynton
President
1867 to 1867
Historical College Name: Howard University
Current College Name: Howard University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Silas E. Shepard
President, acting
1867 to 1868
Historical College Name: Hiram College
Current College Name: Hiram College
Location: Hiram, Ohio
Notes:
Edward Wadsworth
President, acting
1867 to 1870
Historical College Name: Southern University (Greensboro, AL)
Current College Name: Birmingham-Southern College
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notes:
Charles McLean
Principal
1867 to 1898
Historical College Name: Brockport State Normal School
Current College Name: The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Location: Brockport, New York
Notes: Institution became Brockport State Normal School in 1867
Thomas Walker
President
1867 to 1868
Historical College Name: Norwich University
Current College Name: Norwich University
Location: Northfield, Vermont
Notes:
Father Wolfgang Northman O.S.F.
President
1867 to 1873
Historical College Name: St. John’s College (MN)
Current College Name: St. John’s University
Location: Collegeville, Minnesota
Notes:
Byron Sunderland
President
1867 to 1869
Historical College Name: Howard University
Current College Name: Howard University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Abner Jackson
President
1867 to 1874
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
Helen M. French
Principal
1867 to 1872
Historical College Name: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Current College Name: Mount Holyoke College
Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts
Notes:
Robert Audley Browne
President
1867 to 1870
Historical College Name: Westminster Collegiate Institute (PA)
Current College Name: Westminster College
Location: New Wilmington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Right Reverend Edmund Alexander DeSchweinitz
President
1867 to 1885
Historical College Name: Moravian College and Theological Seminary
Current College Name: Moravian University
Location: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Notes:
George E. Tait
Principal
1867 to 1868
Historical College Name: California State Normal School
Current College Name: San Jose State University
Location: San Jose, California
Notes:
Samuel John Crowe
President
1867 to 1871
Historical College Name: Geneva Hall
Current College Name: Geneva College
Location: Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Francis Asbury Mood
President
1868 to 1873
Historical College Name: Soule University
Current College Name: Southwestern University
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Notes: The roots of Soule became Southwestern University
Samuel Dickinson Hillman
President, acting
1868 to 1868
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Brother U. Justin McMahon
President
1868 to 1879
Historical College Name: Saint Mary’s College of California
Current College Name: St. Mary’s College of California
Location: Moraga, California
Notes:
Edward Beecher
President, acting
1868 to 1868
Historical College Name: Knox College
Current College Name: Knox College
Location: Galesburg, Illinois
Notes: Beecher was a trustee of the college
Samuel R. Thompson
Principal
1868 to 1871
Historical College Name: Marshall College State Normal School
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes: Institution became Marshall College State Normal School/West Virginia Normal School at Marshall College in 1868 or simply still Marshall College
James Forsyth
President
1868 to 1886
Historical College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Current College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location: Troy, New York
Notes:
Henry P. Carlton
Principal, acting
1868 to 1868
Historical College Name: California State Normal School
Current College Name: San Jose State University
Location: San Jose, California
Notes: Carlton served as acting principal February to May 1868
Robert Laurenson Dashiell
President
1868 to 1872
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John P. Gulliver
President
1868 to 1872
Historical College Name: Knox College
Current College Name: Knox College
Location: Galesburg, Illinois
Notes:
Thomas C. Brinsmade
President
1868 to 1868
Historical College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Current College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location: Troy, New York
Notes:
William T. Lucky
Principal
1868 to 1873
Historical College Name: California State Normal School
Current College Name: San Jose State University
Location: San Jose, California
Notes:
David H. Wheeler
President, ad interim
1868 to 1869
Historical College Name: Northwestern University
Current College Name: Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Notes:
John Montillot S.J.
President
1868 to 1875
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes:
Reverend Henry Bushnell
President
1868 to 1869
Historical College Name: Albany Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Lewis and Clark College
Location: Albany, Oregon
Notes:
Ebenezer Dodge
President
1868 to 1890
Historical College Name: Madison University/Colgate University
Current College Name: Colgate University
Location: Hamilton, New York
Notes: Institution became Colgate in 1890
Richmond Fisk
President
1868 to 1872
Historical College Name: St. Lawrence University
Current College Name: St. Lawrence University
Location: Canton, New York
Notes:
Reverend Francis F. Stuntebeck S.J.
President
1868 to 1871
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Eli Todd Tappan
President
1868 to 1875
Historical College Name: Kenyon College
Current College Name: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Notes:
Father Diomede Falconio O.F.M.
President
1868 to 1869
Historical College Name: St. Bonaventure College and Seminary
Current College Name: St. Bonaventure University
Location: Saint Bonaventure, New York
Notes:
H. M. Bauscher
Principal
1868 to 1881
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
James Black
President
1868 to 1870
Historical College Name: University of Iowa
Current College Name: University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Notes:
Oliver C. Arey
President
1868 to 1876
Historical College Name: Whitewater Normal School
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Location: Whitewater, Wisconsin
Notes:
Samuel Chapman Armstrong
Principal
1868 to 1893
Historical College Name: Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School
Current College Name: Hampton University
Location: Hampton, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend Joseph Shea S.J.
President
1868 to 1874
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes:
Thomas Rambaut
President
1868 to 1873
Historical College Name: William Jewell College
Current College Name: William Jewell College
Location: Liberty, Missouri
Notes:
Most Reverend Michael A. Corrigan
President
1868 to 1876
Historical College Name: Seton Hall College
Current College Name: Seton Hall University
Location: South Orange, New Jersey
Notes:
Aloysius Varsi S.J.
President
1868 to 1876
Historical College Name: Santa Clara College
Current College Name: Santa Clara University
Location: Santa Clara, California
Notes:
Joseph Moore
President
1868 to 1883
Historical College Name: Earlham College
Current College Name: Earlham College
Location: Earlham, Indiana
Notes:
Alexis Caswell
President
1868 to 1872
Historical College Name: Brown University
Current College Name: Brown University
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Notes:
Franklin Buchanan
President
1868 to 1869
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
Thomas Henry Burrowes
President
1868 to 1871
Historical College Name: Agricultural College of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: Pennsylvania State University
Location: State College, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Kendall Brooks
President
1868 to 1887
Historical College Name: Kalamazoo College
Current College Name: Kalamazoo College
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Notes:
Reverend James A. Duncan
President
1868 to 1877
Historical College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Current College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Location: Ashland, Virginia
Notes:
Nelson Rounds
President
1868 to 1870
Historical College Name: Willamette University
Current College Name: Willamette University
Location: Salem, Oregon
Notes:
Reverend Burchard Villiger S.J.
President
1868 to 1893
Historical College Name: Saint Joseph’s College
Current College Name: St. Joseph’s University
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles Janeway Stillé
Provost
1868 to 1880
Historical College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Adonijah Strong Welch
President
1868 to 1883
Historical College Name: Iowa State Agricultural College
Current College Name: Iowa State University
Location: Ames, Iowa
Notes:
Solomon S. Pool
President
1868 to 1870
Historical College Name: University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Current College Name: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Notes: The University was closed by the reconstruction government and reopened in 1875
Reverend James Kent Stone
President
1868 to 1869
Historical College Name: Hobart College
Current College Name: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Location: Geneva, New York
Notes:
John M. Atwater
President, acting
1868 to 1870
Historical College Name: Hiram College
Current College Name: Hiram College
Location: Hiram, Ohio
Notes:
Otis A. Burgess
President
1868 to 1870
Historical College Name: North Western Christian University
Current College Name: Butler University
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Notes:
Reverend James Rankine
President
1868 to 1871
Historical College Name: Hobart College
Current College Name: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Location: Geneva, New York
Notes:
Merritt Caldwell Fernald
President, acting
1868 to 1871
Historical College Name: Maine State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Current College Name: University of Maine
Location: Orono, Maine
Notes:
Milton Valentine
President
1868 to 1884
Historical College Name: Pennsylvania College
Current College Name: Gettysburg College
Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John Klindworth
President
1868 to 1875
Historical College Name: Wartburg College/Wartburg Normal School
Current College Name: Wartburg College
Location: Waverly, Iowa
Notes:
Edward Quinn Thornton
President
1868 to 1869
Historical College Name: Howard College
Current College Name: Samford University
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notes:
James McCosh
President
1868 to 1888
Historical College Name: College of New Jersey
Current College Name: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Notes:
Charles O. Thompson
President
1868 to 1882
Historical College Name: Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science
Current College Name: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Alonzo Webster
President
1869 to 1874
Historical College Name: Claflin University
Current College Name: Claflin University
Location: Orangeburg, South Carolina
Notes:
Samuel R. Freeman
President
1869 to 1871
Historical College Name: Howard College
Current College Name: Samford University
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notes:
John Henry Hall
President
1869 to 1872
Historical College Name: Territorial University of Washington
Current College Name: University of Washington
Location: Seattle, Washington
Notes:
William E. Beeson
President
1869 to 1882
Historical College Name: Trinity University
Current College Name: Trinity University
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Notes:
Dillwyn Parrish
President
1869 to 1885
Historical College Name: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Current College Name: University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
D. W. Hammond
President
1869 to 1870
Historical College Name: Clark University
Current College Name: Clark Atlanta University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
John Alexander Simpson
President
1869 to 1869
Historical College Name: Baker University
Current College Name: Baker University
Location: Baldwin City, Kansas
Notes:
Daniel S. Wentworth
Principal
1869 to 1883
Historical College Name: Cook County Normal School
Current College Name: Chicago State University
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Notes:
Erastus Otis Haven
President
1869 to 1872
Historical College Name: Northwestern University
Current College Name: Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Notes:
J. L.G. McKown
President
1869 to 1870
Historical College Name: Albion College
Current College Name: Albion College
Location: Albion, Michigan
Notes:
William M. Cunningham
President
1869 to 1870
Historical College Name: Oglethorpe University
Current College Name: Oglethorpe University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Commodore John L. Worden
Superintendent
1869 to 1874
Historical College Name: United States Naval Academy
Current College Name: United States Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Notes:
Peter Mason Bartlett
President
1869 to 1887
Historical College Name: Maryville College
Current College Name: Maryville College
Location: Maryville, Tennessee
Notes:
Reverend Edward R. Geary
President
1869 to 1871
Historical College Name: Albany Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Lewis and Clark College
Location: Albany, Oregon
Notes:
Isaac Caldwell
President
1869 to 1886
Historical College Name: University of Louisville
Current College Name: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Notes:
Henry Simmons Frieze
President, acting
1869 to 1871
Historical College Name: University of Michigan
Current College Name: University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Notes:
Father Maximus Cassini O.S.F.
President
1869 to 1872
Historical College Name: St. Bonaventure College and Seminary
Current College Name: St. Bonaventure University
Location: Saint Bonaventure, New York
Notes:
August Weenaas
President
1869 to 1876
Historical College Name: Augsburg Seminarium/Norwegian Danish Evangelical Lutheran Augsburg Seminary
Current College Name: Augsburg University
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Notes: Institution became Norwegian Danish Evangelical Lutheran Augsburg Seminary in 1873
Edward Henry Fairchild
President
1869 to 1889
Historical College Name: Berea College
Current College Name: Berea College
Location: Berea, Kentucky
Notes:
Reverend Ebenezer Tucker
Principal
1869 to 1870
Historical College Name: Tougaloo University
Current College Name: Tougaloo College
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Notes:
Samuel J. Wilson
President
1869 to 1869
Historical College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles W. Eliot
President
1869 to 1909
Historical College Name: Harvard University
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes:
William Albert Jones
President
1869 to 1879
Historical College Name: Indiana State Normal School
Current College Name: Indiana State University
Location: Terre Haute, Indiana
Notes:
Samuel Regester
President
1869 to 1873
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
John Henry Augustus Bomberger
President
1869 to 1890
Historical College Name: Ursinus College
Current College Name: Ursinus College
Location: Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Aaron Gurney
President
1869 to 1871
Historical College Name: Valparaiso Male and Female College
Current College Name: Valparaiso University
Location: Valparaiso, Indiana
Notes:
Reverend Anthony F. Ciampi S.J.
President
1869 to 1873
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Robert W. Brady S.J.
President
1869 to 1870
Historical College Name: Boston College
Current College Name: Boston College
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Notes:
John R. Park
President
1869 to 1892
Historical College Name: University of Deseret
Current College Name: University of Utah
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Notes:
Edmund A. Ware
President
1869 to 1885
Historical College Name: Atlanta University
Current College Name: Clark Atlanta University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Alexander S. Webb
President
1869 to 1902
Historical College Name: College of the City of New York
Current College Name: The City College of New York
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
John Armstrong
President
1869 to 1878
Historical College Name: Fredonia Normal School
Current College Name: State University of New York at Fredonia
Location: Fredonia, New York
Notes:
Reverend Patrick A. Stanton O.S.A.
President
1869 to 1872
Historical College Name: Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Joseph Bayma S.J.
President
1869 to 1873
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: University of San Francisco
Location: San Francisco, California
Notes:
Reverend Wilson Lee Spottswood
President
1869 to 1873
Historical College Name: Williamsport Dickinson Seminary
Current College Name: Lycoming College
Location: Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Roger Howard
President
1869 to 1871
Historical College Name: Norwich University
Current College Name: Norwich University
Location: Northfield, Vermont
Notes:
Oliver Otis Howard
President
1869 to 1874
Historical College Name: Howard University
Current College Name: Howard University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
P. J. Doran
Principal
1869 to 1870
Historical College Name: Baltimore Normal School for Colored Teachers
Current College Name: Bowie State University
Location: Prince George’s County, Maryland
Notes:
Fanny M. Jackson-Coppin
Principal
1869 to 1902
Historical College Name: Institute for Colored Youth
Current College Name: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Location: Cheyney, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles Augustus Aiken
President
1869 to 1871
Historical College Name: Union College
Current College Name: Union College
Location: Schenectady, New York
Notes:
James Kennedy Patterson
President
1869 to 1910
Historical College Name: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky/State University of Kentucky
Current College Name: University of Kentucky
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes: Institution became State University of Kentucky in 1908
William Watts Folwell
President
1869 to 1884
Historical College Name: University of Minnesota
Current College Name: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Notes:
Lewis O. Thompson
President
1869 to 1870
Historical College Name: Northwestern College
Current College Name: Northwestern College
Location: Watertown, Wisconsin
Notes:
Thomas Hunter
President
1870 to 1906
Historical College Name: Female Normal and High School/Normal College of the City of New York
Current College Name: Hunter College
Location: New York, New York
Notes: Institution became Normal College of the City of New York in 1870
Reverend Stephen Mattoon
President
1870 to 1884
Historical College Name: Biddle Memorial Institute/Biddle University
Current College Name: Johnson C. Smith University
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Notes: Institution became Biddle university in 1876
Henry Durant
President
1870 to 1872
Historical College Name: University of California
Current College Name: University of California
Location: Berkeley, California
Notes:
Howard Crosby
Chancellor
1870 to 1881
Historical College Name: University of the City of New York
Current College Name: New York University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Uriah Cleary
President
1870 to 1871
Historical College Name: Clark University
Current College Name: Clark Atlanta University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Patterson McNutt
President
1870 to 1871
Historical College Name: Baker University
Current College Name: Baker University
Location: Baldwin City, Kansas
Notes:
William B. Silber
President
1870 to 1871
Historical College Name: Albion College
Current College Name: Albion College
Location: Albion, Michigan
Notes:
David Willis
President
1870 to 1872
Historical College Name: Oglethorpe University
Current College Name: Oglethorpe University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
William Russell Smith
President
1870 to 1871
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
Henry Morton
President
1870 to 1902
Historical College Name: Stevens Institute of Technology
Current College Name: Stevens Institute of Technology
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey
Notes:
Reverend James Black
President
1870 to 1875
Historical College Name: Pennsylvania Female College
Current College Name: Chatham University
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes: Not to be confused with Pennsylvania Female College located in Collegeville, PA
W. B. Payne
Principal
1870 to 1871
Historical College Name: Lincoln Institute
Current College Name: Lincoln University of Missouri
Location: Jefferson City, Missouri
Notes:
Reverend William Becker S.J.
President
1870 to 1872
Historical College Name: Canisius College
Current College Name: Canisius College
Location: Buffalo, New York
Notes:
William Henry Purnell
President
1870 to 1885
Historical College Name: Delaware College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes:
James Woodward Strong
President
1870 to 1903
Historical College Name: Northfield College/Carleton College
Current College Name: Carleton College
Location: Northfield, Minnesota
Notes: Institution became Carleton College in 1872
John Daniel Runkle
President
1870 to 1878
Historical College Name: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current College Name: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes: Runkle served as president pro tem in 1868 while the ailing William Barton Rogers took a leave of absence
William Godman
President
1870 to 1875
Historical College Name: Baldwin University
Current College Name: Baldwin Wallace University
Location: Berea, Ohio
Notes:
John R. Buchtel
Board president and founder
1870 to 1892
Historical College Name: Buchtel College
Current College Name: University of Akron
Location: Akron, Ohio
Notes:
Charles S. Venable
Chairman of the Faculty
1870 to 1873
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Andrew J. Steele
Principal
1870 to 1873
Historical College Name: Tougaloo University
Current College Name: Tougaloo College
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Notes:
James I. Brownson
President
1870 to 1870
Historical College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Ormand Beatty
President
1870 to 1888
Historical College Name: Centre College
Current College Name: Centre College
Location: Danville, Kentucky
Notes: Beatty also served as President pro tem in 1868
Reverend Edward Henchy S.J.
President
1870 to 1871
Historical College Name: Loyola College (MD)
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes:
Thomas Milton Gatch
President
1870 to 1879
Historical College Name: Willamette University
Current College Name: Willamette University
Location: Salem, Oregon
Notes:
Willis Lord
President
1870 to 1873
Historical College Name: University of Wooster
Current College Name: College of Wooster
Location: Wooster, Ohio
Notes:
George P. Hays
President
1870 to 1881
Historical College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles Fitz Roy Bellows
Principal
1870 to 1871
Historical College Name: Michigan State Normal School
Current College Name: Eastern Michigan University
Location: Ypsilanti, Michigan
Notes:
Robert J. Fulton S.J.
President
1870 to 1880
Historical College Name: Boston College
Current College Name: Boston College
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Notes:
Allen Andrews
President
1870 to 1875
Historical College Name: Southern University (Greensboro, AL)
Current College Name: Birmingham-Southern College
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notes:
William Greenleaf Eliot, Jr.
Chancellor
1870 to 1887
Historical College Name: Washington University
Current College Name: Washington University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Burke A. Hinsdale
President
1870 to 1882
Historical College Name: Hiram College
Current College Name: Hiram College
Location: Hiram, Ohio
Notes:
William F. Black
President
1870 to 1873
Historical College Name: North Western Christian University
Current College Name: Butler University
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Notes:
Anne Coore
Principal
1870 to 1872
Historical College Name: Baltimore Normal School for Colored Teachers
Current College Name: Bowie State University
Location: Prince George’s County, Maryland
Notes:
Arnold Damen S.J.
President
1870 to 1872
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Notes:
John Early S.J.
President
1870 to 1873
Historical College Name: Georgetown University
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
John Millott Ellis
President
1871 to 1871
Historical College Name: Oberlin College
Current College Name: Oberlin College
Location: Oberlin, Ohio
Notes:
August F. Ernst
President
1871 to 1919
Historical College Name: Northwestern College
Current College Name: Northwestern College
Location: Watertown, Wisconsin
Notes:
William Milroy
President
1871 to 1872
Historical College Name: Geneva Hall
Current College Name: Geneva College
Location: Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Carroll Cutler
President
1871 to 1886
Historical College Name: Western Reserve University
Current College Name: Case Western Reserve University
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Notes:
John Hanson Twombly
President
1871 to 1874
Historical College Name: University of Wisconsin
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Notes:
Hiram Rhodes Revels
President
1871 to 1882
Historical College Name: Alcorn University/Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Alcorn State University
Location: Lorman, Mississippi
Notes: Institution became Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College
James T. Murfee
President
1871 to 1887
Historical College Name: Howard College
Current College Name: Samford University
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notes:
George Washington Custis Lee
President
1871 to 1897
Historical College Name: Washington and Lee University
Current College Name: Washington and Lee University
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Notes:
Noah Putnam Gates
President
1871 to 1873
Historical College Name: Arkansas Industrial University
Current College Name: University of Arkansas
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
Notes:
John Ball Powell
Principal
1871 to 1872
Historical College Name: Marshall College State Normal School
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
Joseph T. Robert
President
1871 to 1884
Historical College Name: Augusta Institute/Augusta Baptist Seminary
Current College Name: Morehouse College
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes: Institution became Augusta Bible Seminary in 1879
Matthew H. Buckham
President
1871 to 1910
Historical College Name: University of Vermont
Current College Name: University of Vermont
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Notes:
Osborn L. Smith
President
1871 to 1875
Historical College Name: Emory College
Current College Name: Emory University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Joshua L. Chamberlain
President
1871 to 1883
Historical College Name: Bowdoin College
Current College Name: Bowdoin College
Location: Brunswick, Maine
Notes:
Reverend Joseph G. Zealand S.J.
President
1871 to 1874
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Lewis M. Johnson
Principal
1871 to 1876
Historical College Name: New Jersey State Normal School
Current College Name: The College of New Jersey
Location: Ewing, New Jersey
Notes:
Thomas O’Neill
President
1871 to 1879
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
I. Marcy
President
1871 to 1872
Historical College Name: Clark University
Current College Name: Clark Atlanta University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Robert Latimore Harford
President
1871 to 1873
Historical College Name: Baker University
Current College Name: Baker University
Location: Baldwin City, Kansas
Notes:
Reverend Royal K. Warren
President
1871 to 1876
Historical College Name: Albany Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Lewis and Clark College
Location: Albany, Oregon
Notes:
Edward H. Myers
President
1871 to 1874
Historical College Name: Wesleyan Female College
Current College Name: Wesleyan College
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
George Thacher
President
1871 to 1877
Historical College Name: University of Iowa
Current College Name: University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Notes:
George B. Jocelyn
President
1871 to 1877
Historical College Name: Albion College
Current College Name: Albion College
Location: Albion, Michigan
Notes:
Reverend Timothy L. Dodge
President
1871 to 1876
Historical College Name: Benedict Institute
Current College Name: Benedict College
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
Allen R. Benton
President
1871 to 1876
Historical College Name: University of Nebraska
Current College Name: University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
Notes:
James Burrill Angell
President
1871 to 1909
Historical College Name: University of Michigan
Current College Name: University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Notes:
Leopold Bushart
President
1871 to 1874
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Matthew F. Maury
President
1871 to 1871
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
Andrew Dousa Hepburn
President
1871 to 1873
Historical College Name: Miami University
Current College Name: Miami University
Location: Oxford, Ohio
Notes: Hepburn appointed pro tempore in 1871, but later considered regular president
Andrew F. Ross
President
1871 to 1877
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes:
George Sumner Albee
President
1871 to 1898
Historical College Name: Oshkosh Normal School
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh
Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Notes:
Lewis Dunn
President
1871 to 1881
Historical College Name: Central University of Iowa
Current College Name: Central College
Location: Pella, Iowa
Notes:
John Rennie Blake
President
1871 to 1877
Historical College Name: Davidson College
Current College Name: Davidson College
Location: Davidson, North Carolina
Notes:
Nathaniel Thomas Lupton
President
1871 to 1874
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
James Calder
President
1871 to 1880
Historical College Name: The Pennsylvania State College
Current College Name: Pennsylvania State University
Location: State College, Pennsylvania
Notes: Institution became The Pennsylvania State College
Charles G. Andrews
President
1871 to 1882
Historical College Name: Centenary College of Louisiana
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes:
Maurelian Sheel F.S.C.
President
1871 to 1891
Historical College Name: Christian Brothers College
Current College Name: Christian Brothers University
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Notes:
James Clarke Welling
President
1871 to 1894
Historical College Name: Columbian College/Columbian University
Current College Name: George Washington University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes: Institution changed name to Columbian University in 1873
Major General Thomas H. Ruger
Superintendent
1871 to 1876
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Edward Hicks Magill
President
1871 to 1889
Historical College Name: Swarthmore College
Current College Name: Swarthmore College
Location: Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend Stephen Kelly S.J.
President
1871 to 1877
Historical College Name: Loyola College (MD)
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes:
Charles G. Barkley
Principal
1871 to 1872
Historical College Name: Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School
Current College Name: Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Location: Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Basil Manly, Jr.
President
1871 to 1879
Historical College Name: Georgetown College
Current College Name: Georgetown College
Location: Georgetown, Kentucky
Notes:
Lucian H. Hammond
President
1871 to 1876
Historical College Name: Lebanon Valley College
Current College Name: Lebanon Valley College
Location: Annville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend Noah Porter
President
1871 to 1886
Historical College Name: Yale College
Current College Name: Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Notes:
Reverend Samuel Magoffin Luckett
President
1871 to 1878
Historical College Name: Austin College
Current College Name: Austin College
Location: Sherman, Texas
Notes:
Joseph Estabrook
Principal
1871 to 1880
Historical College Name: Michigan State Normal School
Current College Name: Eastern Michigan University
Location: Ypsilanti, Michigan
Notes:
Carl Frederick Kranz
President
1871 to 1875
Historical College Name: Elmhurst Proseminary and Academy
Current College Name: Elmhurst University
Location: Elmhurst, Illinois
Notes:
Reverend Maunsell Von Rensselaer
President
1871 to 1876
Historical College Name: Hobart College
Current College Name: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Location: Geneva, New York
Notes:
Malcolm Douglass
President
1871 to 1875
Historical College Name: Norwich University
Current College Name: Norwich University
Location: Northfield, Vermont
Notes:
Frances Drake Parish
President
1871 to 1871
Historical College Name: Oberlin College
Current College Name: Oberlin College
Location: Oberlin, Ohio
Notes:
Charles Frederick Allen
President
1871 to 1878
Historical College Name: Maine State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Current College Name: University of Maine
Location: Orono, Maine
Notes:
Eliphalet Nott Potter
President
1871 to 1884
Historical College Name: Union College
Current College Name: Union College
Location: Schenectady, New York
Notes:
E. Tupper Jeffers
President
1872 to 1883
Historical College Name: Westminster Collegiate Institute (PA)
Current College Name: Westminster College
Location: New Wilmington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
A. H. Newell
Principal
1872 to 1893
Historical College Name: Baltimore Normal School for Colored Teachers/Baltimore Normal School
Current College Name: Bowie State University
Location: Prince George’s County, Maryland
Notes: Institution became Baltimore Normal School
Ferdinand Coosemans S.J.
President
1872 to 1874
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Notes:
Alexander S. Gibbons
President
1872 to 1877
Historical College Name: University of the Pacific
Current College Name: University of the Pacific
Location: Stockton, California
Notes:
Eugene Kincaid Hill
President
1872 to 1874
Historical College Name: Territorial University of Washington
Current College Name: University of Washington
Location: Seattle, Washington
Notes:
Henry Hosick George
President
1872 to 1890
Historical College Name: Geneva Hall/Geneva College
Current College Name: Geneva College
Location: Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Notes:
James Andrew McCauley
President
1872 to 1888
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Albert Hurd
President, acting
1872 to 1875
Historical College Name: Knox College
Current College Name: Knox College
Location: Galesburg, Illinois
Notes:
Paul Ansel Chadbourne
President
1872 to 1881
Historical College Name: Williams College
Current College Name: Williams College
Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts
Notes:
James Elmore Morrow
Principal
1872 to 1873
Historical College Name: Marshall College State Normal School
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
Daniel Coit Gilman
President
1872 to 1875
Historical College Name: University of California
Current College Name: University of California
Location: Berkeley, California
Notes:
J. Emory Round
President
1872 to 1882
Historical College Name: Centenary Biblical Institute
Current College Name: Morgan State University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes:
Absalom Gaines Gaines
President
1872 to 1888
Historical College Name: St. Lawrence University
Current College Name: St. Lawrence University
Location: Canton, New York
Notes:
Reverend Auguste Lemonnier C.S.C.
President
1872 to 1874
Historical College Name: University of Notre Dame
Current College Name: University of Notre Dame
Location: South Bend, Indiana
Notes:
Charles H. Fowler
President
1872 to 1876
Historical College Name: Northwestern University
Current College Name: Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Notes:
William Henry Scott
President
1872 to 1883
Historical College Name: Ohio University
Current College Name: Ohio University
Location: Athens, Ohio
Notes:
Edward Orton, Sr.
President
1872 to 1873
Historical College Name: Antioch College
Current College Name: Antioch College
Location: Yellow Springs, Ohio
Notes:
Isaac Taylor Tichenor
President
1872 to 1882
Historical College Name: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama
Current College Name: Auburn University
Location: Auburn, Alabama
Notes: Institution became Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama in 1872
Archibald John Battle
President
1872 to 1889
Historical College Name: Mercer University
Current College Name: Mercer University
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
Abraham Reasor Horne
Principal
1872 to 1877
Historical College Name: Keystone State Normal School
Current College Name: Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Location: Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Bishop John M. Brown
title not known
1872 to 1876
Historical College Name: Connecticut High School and Institute
Current College Name: Paul Quinn College
Location: Dallas, Texas
Notes:
George P. Beard
Principal
1872 to 1875
Historical College Name: Cumberland Valley State Normal School
Current College Name: Shippensburg University
Location: Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reuben Andrus
President
1872 to 1875
Historical College Name: Indiana Asbury University
Current College Name: DePauw University
Location: Greencastle, Indiana
Notes:
Richard Owen
President
1872 to 1874
Historical College Name: Purdue University
Current College Name: Purdue University
Location: La Fayette, Indiana
Notes:
Brother Peter Frewen O.S.F.
President
1872 to 1875
Historical College Name: St. Francis College
Current College Name: St. Francis College
Location: Brooklyn Heights, New York
Notes:
Ezekiel Robinson Robinson
President
1872 to 1889
Historical College Name: Brown University
Current College Name: Brown University
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Notes:
Reverend Henry Behrens S.J.
President
1872 to 1876
Historical College Name: Canisius College
Current College Name: Canisius College
Location: Buffalo, New York
Notes:
Joseph Emery
President, acting
1872 to 1872
Historical College Name: Corvallis State Agricultural College
Current College Name: Oregon State University
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Notes:
Josiah Gorgas
Vice Chancellor
1872 to 1878
Historical College Name: University of the South
Current College Name: The University of the South
Location: Sewanee, Tennessee
Notes: Institution was also known as Sewanee, Sewanee College, or Sewanee University; Vice chancellor selected as the title for the chief executive
Sullivan H. McCollester
President
1872 to 1878
Historical College Name: Buchtel College
Current College Name: University of Akron
Location: Akron, Ohio
Notes:
Benjamin Lea Arnold
President
1872 to 1892
Historical College Name: Corvallis State Agricultural College/State Agricultural College/Oregon State Agricultural College/Oregon Agricultural College
Current College Name: Oregon State University
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Notes: Institution became State Agricultural College in 1876, Corvallis State Agricultural College in 1881, Oregon State Agricultural College in 1882, State Agricultural College in 1886, and Oregon Agricultural College in 1890
Reverend Thomas Galberry O.S.A.
President
1872 to 1876
Historical College Name: Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend John R. Hewitt
Principal
1872 to 1873
Historical College Name: Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School
Current College Name: Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Location: Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles Landon Carter Minor
President
1872 to 1879
Historical College Name: Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Location: Blacksburg, Virginia
Notes:
Victor Beaudevin S.J.
President
1872 to 1874
Historical College Name: St. Peter’s College
Current College Name: St. Peter’s University
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
Notes:
Julia E. Ward
Principal
1872 to 1883
Historical College Name: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Current College Name: Mount Holyoke College
Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts
Notes:
Benjamin B. Babbitt
Chairman of the Faculty
1873 to 1875
Historical College Name: University of South Carolina
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
Mark Bailey
President
1873 to 1876
Historical College Name: Baptist College at McMinnville
Current College Name: Linfield University
Location: McMinnville, Oregon
Notes:
Patrick Healy Healy S.J.
President
1873 to 1882
Historical College Name: Georgetown University
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Francis Asbury Mood
President
1873 to 1884
Historical College Name: Southwestern University
Current College Name: Southwestern University
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Notes:
Fletcher Marsh
President, acting
1873 to 1875
Historical College Name: Denison University
Current College Name: Denison University
Location: Granville, Ohio
Notes:
William James Rivers
Principal
1873 to 1887
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes:
Albert Webb Bishop
President
1873 to 1875
Historical College Name: Arkansas Industrial University
Current College Name: University of Arkansas
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
Notes:
Charles H. Allen
Principal
1873 to 1889
Historical College Name: California State Normal School/San Jose State Normal School
Current College Name: San Jose State University
Location: San Jose, California
Notes: Institution became San Jose State Normal School in 1887
Thomas N. Williams
Principal
1873 to 1889
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes:
James Beauchamp Clark
Principal
1873 to 1874
Historical College Name: Marshall College State Normal School
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
David Loy Tressler
President
1873 to 1880
Historical College Name: Illinois State University (private)/Carthage College
Current College Name: Carthage College
Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Notes: Institution changed its name to Carthage College in 1870 after moving from Springfield Carthage, Illinois
Nathan J. Morrison
President
1873 to 1885
Historical College Name: Drury College
Current College Name: Drury University
Location: Springfield, Missouri
Notes:
Samuel Carroll Derby
President, acting
1873 to 1874
Historical College Name: Antioch College
Current College Name: Antioch College
Location: Yellow Springs, Ohio
Notes:
Samuel S. Weatherby
President
1873 to 1874
Historical College Name: Baker University
Current College Name: Baker University
Location: Baldwin City, Kansas
Notes:
Father Theophilus d’Avignon O.S.F.
President
1873 to 1874
Historical College Name: St. Bonaventure College and Seminary
Current College Name: St. Bonaventure University
Location: Saint Bonaventure, New York
Notes:
Nathan Green, Jr.
President
1873 to 1902
Historical College Name: Cumberland University
Current College Name: Cumberland University
Location: Lebanon, Tennessee
Notes:
Alexander Winchell
Chancellor
1873 to 1874
Historical College Name: Syracuse University
Current College Name: Syracuse University
Location: Syracuse, New York
Notes:
Warren Sheldon Webb
President
1873 to 1891
Historical College Name: Mississippi College
Current College Name: Mississippi College
Location: Clinton, Mississippi
Notes:
Addison Clark
President
1873 to 1899
Historical College Name: Add-Ran Male and Female College/Add-Ran Christian University
Current College Name: Texas Christian University
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Notes: Institution became Add-Ran Christian University in 1889
Henry Baker Brown
President
1873 to 1917
Historical College Name: Valparaiso Male and Female College/Northern Indiana Normal School and Business Institute/Valparaiso College/Valparaiso University
Current College Name: Valparaiso University
Location: Valparaiso, Indiana
Notes: Brown took over the defunct Valparaiso Make and Female College in 1873 and renamed it Northern Indiana Normal School and Business Institute. The institution became Valparaiso College in 1900 and Valparaiso University in 1907.
John J. Frodeen
Principal, interim
1873 to 1874
Historical College Name: St. Ansgar’s Academy
Current College Name: Gustavus Adolphus College
Location: St. Peter, Minnesota
Notes:
James F. Harrison
Chairman of the Faculty
1873 to 1886
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Henry Ephraim Robins
President
1873 to 1882
Historical College Name: Colby University
Current College Name: Colby College
Location: Waterville, Maine
Notes:
Reverend John K. Nutting
Principal/President
1873 to 1875
Historical College Name: Tougaloo University
Current College Name: Tougaloo College
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Notes:
Reverend Joseph B. O’Hagan S.J.
President
1873 to 1878
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Hugh Boyd
President, acting
1873 to 1874
Historical College Name: Cornell College
Current College Name: Cornell College
Location: Mount Vernon, Iowa
Notes:
Archibald Alexander Edward Taylor
President
1873 to 1883
Historical College Name: University of Wooster
Current College Name: College of Wooster
Location: Wooster, Ohio
Notes:
Abbot Alexius Edelbrock O.S.B.
President
1873 to 1889
Historical College Name: Saint John’s College (MN)/Saint John’s University (MN)
Current College Name: St. John’s University
Location: Collegeville, Minnesota
Notes: Institution became Saint John’s University in 1883
David W. Lewis
President
1873 to 1885
Historical College Name: North Georgia Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of North Georgia
Location: Dahlonega, Georgia
Notes:
F. C. Moore
President
1873 to 1876
Historical College Name: Wiley University
Current College Name: Wiley College
Location: Marshall, Texas
Notes:
Aloysius Masnata S.J.
President
1873 to 1876
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: University of San Francisco
Location: San Francisco, California
Notes:
Samuel J. Fallows
President
1873 to 1875
Historical College Name: Illinois Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Illinois Wesleyan University
Location: Bloomington, Illinois
Notes:
J. D. Robb
President
1873 to 1873
Historical College Name: Baptist College at McMinnville
Current College Name: Linfield University
Location: McMinnville, Oregon
Notes:
Edward Francis Baxter Orton, Sr.
President
1873 to 1881
Historical College Name: Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College/Ohio State University
Current College Name: Ohio State University
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Notes: Institution became Ohio State University in 1878
T. L. Griswold
Principal
1873 to 1877
Historical College Name: Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School
Current College Name: Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Location: Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William Fairfield Warren
President
1873 to 1903
Historical College Name: Boston University
Current College Name: Boston University
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Notes:
John Anderson
President
1873 to 1879
Historical College Name: Kansas State Agricultural College
Current College Name: Kansas State University
Location: Manhattan, Kansas
Notes:
Otis A. Burgess
President
1873 to 1881
Historical College Name: North Western Christian University/Butler University
Current College Name: Butler University
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Notes: Institution became Butler University in 1877
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
President
1874 to 1883
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
John McQuaid S.J.
President
1874 to 1888
Historical College Name: St. Peter’s College
Current College Name: St. Peter’s University
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
Notes:
Edward Cooke
President
1874 to 1884
Historical College Name: Claflin University
Current College Name: Claflin University
Location: Orangeburg, South Carolina
Notes:
John DeBlieck S.J.
President
1874 to 1877
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Notes:
John A. Bascom
President
1874 to 1887
Historical College Name: University of Wisconsin
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Notes:
Mary W. (May) Thayer
President
1874 to 1874
Historical College Name: Territorial University of Washington
Current College Name: University of Washington
Location: Seattle, Washington
Notes:
James Marvin
Chancellor
1874 to 1883
Historical College Name: University of Kansas
Current College Name: University of Kansas
Location: Lawrence, Kansas
Notes:
George Fred Whitworth
President
1874 to 1876
Historical College Name: Territorial University of Washington
Current College Name: University of Washington
Location: Seattle, Washington
Notes: Institution was closed 1874 to 1876
John Wesley Locke
President
1874 to 1878
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Reverend Robert Olivier S.J.
President
1874 to 1878
Historical College Name: Preparatory College of the Immaculate Conception
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Notes:
Rear Admiral Christopher R.P. Rodgers
Superintendent
1874 to 1878
Historical College Name: United States Naval Academy
Current College Name: United States Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Notes:
Alonzo Decatur Chesterman
Principal
1874 to 1881
Historical College Name: Marshall College State Normal School
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
Reverend Patrick Colovin C.S.C.
President
1874 to 1877
Historical College Name: University of Notre Dame
Current College Name: University of Notre Dame
Location: South Bend, Indiana
Notes:
Reverend Leopold Bushart S.J.
President
1874 to 1877
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Alexander P. Stewart
Chancellor
1874 to 1886
Historical College Name: University of Mississippi
Current College Name: University of Mississippi
Location: Oxford, Mississippi
Notes:
Charles C. Bragdon
Principal
1874 to 1908
Historical College Name: Lasell Female Seminary/Lasell Seminary for Young Women
Current College Name: Lasell University
Location: Newton, Massachusetts
Notes: Institution became Lasell Seminary for Young Women in 1874
Henry Turner Eddy
Dean
1874 to 1877
Historical College Name: University of Cincinnati
Current College Name: University of Cincinnati
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend William Gockeln S.J.
President
1874 to 1882
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes:
John B. Helwig
President
1874 to 1882
Historical College Name: Wittenberg College
Current College Name: Wittenberg University
Location: Springfield, Ohio
Notes:
George N. Card
President
1874 to 1878
Historical College Name: State Normal School and University for Colored Students and Teachers
Current College Name: Alabama State University
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Notes:
E. Harlow Russell
Principal
1874 to 1909
Historical College Name: Worcester Normal School
Current College Name: Worcester State University
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
W. J. Parker
Principal
1874 to 1877
Historical College Name: Bennett College
Current College Name: Bennett College
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
Notes:
William C. Bass
President
1874 to 1894
Historical College Name: Wesleyan Female College
Current College Name: Wesleyan College
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
Sidney Brownsberger
President
1874 to 1881
Historical College Name: Battle Creek College
Current College Name: Battle Creek College
Location: Battle Creek, Michigan
Notes:
Edward A. Higgins
President
1874 to 1879
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Joseph J. Denison
President
1874 to 1879
Historical College Name: Baker University
Current College Name: Baker University
Location: Baldwin City, Kansas
Notes:
Father Charles Vissani O.S.F.
President
1874 to 1877
Historical College Name: St. Bonaventure College and Seminary
Current College Name: St. Bonaventure University
Location: Saint Bonaventure, New York
Notes:
Abram C. Shortridge
President
1874 to 1875
Historical College Name: Purdue University
Current College Name: Purdue University
Location: La Fayette, Indiana
Notes:
Carlos Green Smith
President
1874 to 1878
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
Orsamus H. Marshall
Chancellor
1874 to 1884
Historical College Name: University of Buffalo
Current College Name: University of Buffalo
Location: Buffalo, New York
Notes:
Erastus Otis Haven
Chancellor
1874 to 1880
Historical College Name: Syracuse University
Current College Name: Syracuse University
Location: Syracuse, New York
Notes:
Reverend Andrew Jackson
Principal, acting
1874 to 1876
Historical College Name: St. Ansgar’s Academy
Current College Name: Gustavus Adolphus College
Location: St. Peter, Minnesota
Notes:
Reverend Edward Duffield Neill
President
1874 to 1884
Historical College Name: Macalester College
Current College Name: Macalester College
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Notes:
Thorbjorn N. Mohn
President
1874 to 1899
Historical College Name: St. Olaf College
Current College Name: St. Olaf College
Location: Northfield, Minnesota
Notes:
Reverend Edward J. Gray
President
1874 to 1905
Historical College Name: Williamsport Dickinson Seminary
Current College Name: Lycoming College
Location: Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Henry Holcombe Tucker
Chancellor
1874 to 1878
Historical College Name: University of Georgia
Current College Name: University of Georgia
Location: Athens, Georgia
Notes:
William Fletcher King
President
1874 to 1880
Historical College Name: Cornell College
Current College Name: Cornell College
Location: Mount Vernon, Iowa
Notes:
John Brocklesby
President, acting
1874 to 1874
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
Robert Allyn
President
1874 to 1892
Historical College Name: Southern Illinois Normal University
Current College Name: Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Location: Carbondale, Illinois
Notes:
Sigmund Fritschel
President
1875 to 1885
Historical College Name: Wartburg College/Wartburg Normal School
Current College Name: Wartburg College
Location: Waverly, Iowa
Notes:
William H.H. Adams
President
1875 to 1888
Historical College Name: Illinois Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Illinois Wesleyan University
Location: Bloomington, Illinois
Notes:
Charles Curtis
President
1875 to 1875
Historical College Name: Norwich University
Current College Name: Norwich University
Location: Northfield, Vermont
Notes:
Anson W. Cummings
Chairman of the Faculty
1875 to 1877
Historical College Name: University of South Carolina
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
Josiah Swett
President
1875 to 1877
Historical College Name: Norwich University
Current College Name: Norwich University
Location: Northfield, Vermont
Notes:
Ada Howard
President
1875 to 1881
Historical College Name: Wellesley College
Current College Name: Wellesley College
Location: Wellesley, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend Elmer Hewitt Capen
President
1875 to 1905
Historical College Name: Tufts University
Current College Name: Tufts University
Location: Medford, Massachusetts
Notes:
Elisha Benjamin Andrews
President
1875 to 1879
Historical College Name: Denison University
Current College Name: Denison University
Location: Granville, Ohio
Notes:
Dominic Beaudequin S.J.
President
1875 to 1880
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes:
Newton Bateman
President
1875 to 1892
Historical College Name: Knox College
Current College Name: Knox College
Location: Galesburg, Illinois
Notes:
James Dougherty
President
1875 to 1876
Historical College Name: Colorado College
Current College Name: Colorado College
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Notes:
Ellen Hyde
Principal
1875 to 1898
Historical College Name: The Framingham Normal School/The Framingham State Normal School
Current College Name: Framingham State University
Location: Framingham, Massachusetts
Notes: Institution became The Framingham State Normal School in 1889
Noah Putnam Gates
President
1875 to 1877
Historical College Name: Arkansas Industrial University
Current College Name: University of Arkansas
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
Notes:
Cyrus D. Foss
President
1875 to 1880
Historical College Name: Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Wesleyan University
Location: Middletown, Connecticut
Notes:
Atticus Greene Haygood
President
1875 to 1884
Historical College Name: Emory College
Current College Name: Emory University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Daniel Coit Gilman
President
1875 to 1901
Historical College Name: Johns Hopkins University
Current College Name: Johns Hopkins University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes:
Lucius H. Bugbee
President
1875 to 1882
Historical College Name: Allegheny College
Current College Name: Allegheny College
Location: Meadville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Edward C. Benson
President, acting
1875 to 1876
Historical College Name: Kenyon College
Current College Name: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Notes:
Joseph Carter Corbin
Principal
1875 to 1902
Historical College Name: Branch Normal College
Current College Name: University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff
Location: Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Notes:
Erastus Milo Cravath
President
1875 to 1900
Historical College Name: Fisk University
Current College Name: Fisk University
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Notes:
William Hooper Councill
President
1875 to 1909
Historical College Name: Huntsville Normal School/State Normal and Industrial School at Huntsville/State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes
Current College Name: Alabama A&M University
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Notes: Institution became State Normal and Industrial School at Huntsville in 1878 and State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes in 1890
Thomas Chase
President
1875 to 1886
Historical College Name: Haverford College
Current College Name: Haverford College
Location: Haverford, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend Thomas Strong
President
1875 to 1878
Historical College Name: Pennsylvania Female College
Current College Name: Chatham University
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes: Not to be confused with Pennsylvania Female College located in Collegeville, PA
Edmund Burke Fairfield
Principal
1875 to 1876
Historical College Name: Indiana Normal School
Current College Name: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Location: Indiana, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Isaac Newton Hays
Principal
1875 to 1878
Historical College Name: Cumberland Valley State Normal School
Current College Name: Shippensburg University
Location: Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Alexander Martin
President
1875 to 1889
Historical College Name: Indiana Asbury University/DePauw University
Current College Name: DePauw University
Location: Greencastle, Indiana
Notes: Institution changed its name to DePauw University in 1884
Samuel T. Mitchell
Principal
1875 to 1878
Historical College Name: Lincoln Institute
Current College Name: Lincoln University of Missouri
Location: Jefferson City, Missouri
Notes:
Calvin Butler Hulbert
President
1875 to 1879
Historical College Name: Middlebury College
Current College Name: Middlebury College
Location: Middlebury, Vermont
Notes:
Brother Paul St. Leger O.S.F.
President
1875 to 1876
Historical College Name: St. Francis College
Current College Name: St. Francis College
Location: Brooklyn Heights, New York
Notes:
Aaron Schuyler
President
1875 to 1885
Historical College Name: Baldwin University
Current College Name: Baldwin Wallace University
Location: Berea, Ohio
Notes:
James Henry Carlisle
President
1875 to 1902
Historical College Name: Wofford College
Current College Name: Wofford College
Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina
Notes:
William H. Parker
President
1875 to 1882
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
Lemuel Moss
President
1875 to 1884
Historical College Name: Indiana University
Current College Name: Indiana University
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Notes:
Landon Cabell Garland
Chancellor
1875 to 1893
Historical College Name: Vanderbilt University
Current College Name: Vanderbilt University
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Notes:
John McDowell Leavitt
President
1875 to 1880
Historical College Name: Lehigh University
Current College Name: Lehigh University
Location: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend Leander A. Darling
Principal/President
1875 to 1877
Historical College Name: Tougaloo University
Current College Name: Tougaloo College
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Notes:
Luther M. Smith
President
1875 to 1879
Historical College Name: Southern University (Greensboro, AL)
Current College Name: Birmingham-Southern College
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notes:
Edward Parmelee Smith
President
1875 to 1876
Historical College Name: Howard University
Current College Name: Howard University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Laurenus Clark Seelye
President
1875 to 1910
Historical College Name: Smith College
Current College Name: Smith College
Location: Northampton, Massachusetts
Notes:
Philip Frederick Meusch
President
1875 to 1880
Historical College Name: Elmhurst Proseminary and Academy
Current College Name: Elmhurst University
Location: Elmhurst, Illinois
Notes:
Reverend William S. Perry
President
1876 to 1876
Historical College Name: Hobart College
Current College Name: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Location: Geneva, New York
Notes:
Samuel Spahr Laws
President
1876 to 1889
Historical College Name: University of Missouri
Current College Name: University of Missouri
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Notes:
Geert Egberts Boer
Docent
1876 to 1902
Historical College Name: Theological School (De Theologische School)
Current College Name: Calvin University
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Notes:
Warren N. Dusenberry
Principal
1876 to 1876
Historical College Name: Brigham Young Academy
Current College Name: Brigham Young University
Location: Provo, Utah
Notes:
John LeConte
President
1876 to 1881
Historical College Name: University of California
Current College Name: University of California
Location: Berkeley, California
Notes:
Reverend Robert G. Hinsdale
President
1876 to 1883
Historical College Name: Hobart College
Current College Name: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Location: Geneva, New York
Notes:
Karl G. Maeser
Principal
1876 to 1892
Historical College Name: Brigham Young Academy
Current College Name: Brigham Young University
Location: Provo, Utah
Notes:
John E. Magers
President
1876 to 1877
Historical College Name: Baptist College at McMinnville
Current College Name: Linfield University
Location: McMinnville, Oregon
Notes:
Edwin C. Hewett
President
1876 to 1890
Historical College Name: Illinois State Normal University
Current College Name: Illinois State University
Location: Normal, Illinois
Notes:
Edward P. Tenney
President
1876 to 1884
Historical College Name: Colorado College
Current College Name: Colorado College
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Notes:
Edward H. Merrell
President
1876 to 1891
Historical College Name: Ripon College
Current College Name: Ripon College
Location: Ripon, Wisconsin
Notes:
James Cleland Gilchrist
Principal
1876 to 1886
Historical College Name: Iowa State Normal School
Current College Name: University of Northern Iowa
Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
Notes:
Washington Hasbrouck
Principal
1876 to 1889
Historical College Name: New Jersey State Normal School
Current College Name: The College of New Jersey
Location: Ewing, New Jersey
Notes:
Oliver H. Marcy
President, acting
1876 to 1881
Historical College Name: Northwestern University
Current College Name: Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Notes:
William F. Phelps
President
1876 to 1878
Historical College Name: Whitewater Normal School
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Location: Whitewater, Wisconsin
Notes:
J. B. Martin
President
1876 to 1877
Historical College Name: Clark University
Current College Name: Clark Atlanta University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Reverend Howard W. Stratton
President
1876 to 1878
Historical College Name: Albany Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Lewis and Clark College
Location: Albany, Oregon
Notes:
William B. Bodine
President
1876 to 1891
Historical College Name: Kenyon College
Current College Name: Kenyon College
Location: Gambier, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend James H. Corrigan
President
1876 to 1888
Historical College Name: Seton Hall College
Current College Name: Seton Hall University
Location: South Orange, New Jersey
Notes:
John Wesley Johnson
President
1876 to 1893
Historical College Name: University of Oregon
Current College Name: University of Oregon
Location: Eugene, Oregon
Notes:
Thomas Sanford Gathright
President
1876 to 1879
Historical College Name: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Current College Name: Texas A&M University
Location: College Station, Texas
Notes:
Aloysius Brunengo S.J.
President
1876 to 1880
Historical College Name: Santa Clara College
Current College Name: Santa Clara University
Location: Santa Clara, California
Notes:
Georg Sverdrup
President
1876 to 1907
Historical College Name: Norwegian Danish Evangelical Lutheran Augsburg Seminary/Augsburg Seminary
Current College Name: Augsburg University
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Notes: Institution became Augsburg Seminary in 1892
Bishop Richard Harvey Cain
title not known
1876 to 1880
Historical College Name: Connecticut High School and Institute/Waco College
Current College Name: Paul Quinn College
Location: Dallas, Texas
Notes: Institution became Waco College upon moving from Austin to Waco in 1877
Reverend Lewis Colby
President
1876 to 1879
Historical College Name: Benedict Institute
Current College Name: Benedict College
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
Edmund Burke Fairfield
President
1876 to 1882
Historical College Name: University of Nebraska
Current College Name: University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
Notes:
John Burns Weston
President, acting
1876 to 1877
Historical College Name: Antioch College
Current College Name: Antioch College
Location: Yellow Springs, Ohio
Notes:
David M. Sensenig
Principal
1876 to 1878
Historical College Name: Indiana Normal School
Current College Name: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Location: Indiana, Pennsylvania
Notes:
George O. Richardson
President
1876 to 1882
Historical College Name: Samuel Huston College
Current College Name: Huston-Tillotson University
Location: Austin, Texas
Notes:
Benjamin Franklin Lee
President
1876 to 1884
Historical College Name: Wilberforce University
Current College Name: Wilberforce University
Location: Wilberforce, Ohio
Notes:
Samuel Carroll Derby
President
1876 to 1881
Historical College Name: Antioch College
Current College Name: Antioch College
Location: Yellow Springs, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend John B. Lessmann S.J.
President
1876 to 1877
Historical College Name: Canisius College
Current College Name: Canisius College
Location: Buffalo, New York
Notes:
Emerson E. White
President
1876 to 1883
Historical College Name: Purdue University
Current College Name: Purdue University
Location: La Fayette, Indiana
Notes:
Julius Hawley Seelye
President
1876 to 1890
Historical College Name: Amherst College
Current College Name: Amherst College
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
Brother Jerome Magner O.S.F.
President
1876 to 1894
Historical College Name: St. Francis College
Current College Name: St. Francis College
Location: Brooklyn Heights, New York
Notes:
Kemp B. Battle
President
1876 to 1891
Historical College Name: University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Current College Name: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Notes:
Lieutenant General John McAllister Schofield
Superintendent
1876 to 1881
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
David D. DeLong
President
1876 to 1887
Historical College Name: Lebanon Valley College
Current College Name: Lebanon Valley College
Location: Annville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend Jonas P. Nyquist
President
1876 to 1881
Historical College Name: St. Ansgar’s Academy /Gustavus Adolphus College
Current College Name: Gustavus Adolphus College
Location: St. Peter, Minnesota
Notes: Institution became Gustavus Adolphus College in 1876
Charles H. Payne
President
1876 to 1888
Historical College Name: Ohio Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Ohio Wesleyan University
Location: Delaware, Ohio
Notes: Wesleyan Female College merged with the institution during this time
Isham L. Burrow
President
1876 to 1887
Historical College Name: Central Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Hendrix College
Location: Conway, Arkansas
Notes:
William Marvel Nevin
President, acting
1876 to 1877
Historical College Name: Franklin and Marshall College
Current College Name: Franklin and Marshall College
Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend Thomas C. Middleton O.S.A.
President
1876 to 1878
Historical College Name: Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes:
W. H. Davis
President
1876 to 1885
Historical College Name: Wiley University
Current College Name: Wiley College
Location: Marshall, Texas
Notes:
John Pinasco S.J.
President
1876 to 1880
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: University of San Francisco
Location: San Francisco, California
Notes:
Reverend Francis Feith
President
1876 to 1879
Historical College Name: St. Mary’s Institute (OH)
Current College Name: University of Dayton
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Notes:
William Weston Patton
President
1877 to 1889
Historical College Name: Howard University
Current College Name: Howard University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
David Jewett Waller, Jr.
Principal
1877 to 1890
Historical College Name: Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School
Current College Name: Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Location: Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles Carroll Stratton
President
1877 to 1887
Historical College Name: University of the Pacific
Current College Name: University of the Pacific
Location: Stockton, California
Notes:
Charles Curtis
President
1877 to 1880
Historical College Name: Norwich University
Current College Name: Norwich University
Location: Northfield, Vermont
Notes:
Joseph A. Sewall
President
1877 to 1887
Historical College Name: University of Colorado
Current College Name: University of Colorado
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Notes:
Ep Roberts
President
1877 to 1878
Historical College Name: Baptist College at McMinnville
Current College Name: Linfield University
Location: McMinnville, Oregon
Notes:
Thomas H. Miles S.J.
President
1877 to 1880
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Notes:
R. W. Pitman
President, acting
1877 to 1878
Historical College Name: Trinity University
Current College Name: Trinity University
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Notes:
Charles Ayer
President
1877 to 1894
Historical College Name: Natchez Seminary
Current College Name: Jackson State University
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Notes:
Samuel Colcord Bartlett
President
1877 to 1892
Historical College Name: Dartmouth College
Current College Name: Dartmouth College
Location: Hanover, New Hampshire
Notes:
Theophilus Zorn
Principal
1877 to 1884
Historical College Name: Salem Female Academy
Current College Name: Salem Academy and College
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
Alexander Jay Anderson
President
1877 to 1882
Historical College Name: Territorial University of Washington
Current College Name: University of Washington
Location: Seattle, Washington
Notes:
Daniel Harvey Hill
President
1877 to 1884
Historical College Name: Arkansas Industrial University
Current College Name: University of Arkansas
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
Notes:
John Rhey Thompson
President
1877 to 1881
Historical College Name: West Virginia University
Current College Name: West Virginia University
Location: Morgantown, West Virginia
Notes:
Albert Newton Raub
Principal
1877 to 1884
Historical College Name: Central State Normal School
Current College Name: Lock Haven University
Location: Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend William Corby C.S.C.
President
1877 to 1881
Historical College Name: University of Notre Dame
Current College Name: University of Notre Dame
Location: South Bend, Indiana
Notes:
Reverend Joseph E. Keller S.J.
President
1877 to 1881
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Nathan C. Schaeffer
Principal
1877 to 1893
Historical College Name: Keystone State Normal School
Current College Name: Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Location: Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Christian W. Slagle
President, acting
1877 to 1878
Historical College Name: University of Iowa
Current College Name: University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Notes:
Lewis R. Fiske
President
1877 to 1898
Historical College Name: Albion College
Current College Name: Albion College
Location: Albion, Michigan
Notes:
Thomas Vickers
Rector
1877 to 1884
Historical College Name: University of Cincinnati
Current College Name: University of Cincinnati
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
R. E. Bisbee
President
1877 to 1881
Historical College Name: Clark University
Current College Name: Clark Atlanta University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
George C. Vincent
President
1877 to 1884
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes:
Edward O. Thayer
President
1877 to 1881
Historical College Name: Bennett College
Current College Name: Bennett College
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
Notes:
Reverend Andrew Dousa Hepburn
President
1877 to 1885
Historical College Name: Davidson College
Current College Name: Davidson College
Location: Davidson, North Carolina
Notes:
Reverend W. W. Bennett
President
1877 to 1886
Historical College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Current College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Location: Ashland, Virginia
Notes:
William Brinkerhoff
President
1877 to 1884
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes:
Father Leo da Saracena O.S.F.
President
1877 to 1880
Historical College Name: St. Bonaventure College and Seminary
Current College Name: St. Bonaventure University
Location: Saint Bonaventure, New York
Notes:
Reverend Martin Port S.J.
President
1877 to 1883
Historical College Name: Canisius College
Current College Name: Canisius College
Location: Buffalo, New York
Notes:
Reverend Edward A. McGurk S.J.
President
1877 to 1885
Historical College Name: Loyola College (MD)
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes:
George S. Pope
President
1877 to 1887
Historical College Name: Tougaloo University
Current College Name: Tougaloo College
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Notes:
George W. Nesmith
President, Board of Trustees
1877 to 1890
Historical College Name: New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts
Current College Name: University of New Hampshire
Location: Durham, New Hampshire
Notes: New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts existed as a division of Dartmouth College at this time
Patrick Hues Mell
Chancellor
1878 to 1888
Historical College Name: University of Georgia
Current College Name: University of Georgia
Location: Athens, Georgia
Notes:
Reverend John J. Fedigan O.S.A.
President
1878 to 1880
Historical College Name: Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Samuel L. Caldwell
President
1878 to 1885
Historical College Name: Vassar College
Current College Name: Vassar College
Location: Poughkeepsie, New York
Notes:
Reverend William Patrick Power
Rector
1878 to 1885
Historical College Name: Pittsburgh Catholic College
Current College Name: Duquesne University
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Henry Hall White
President
1878 to 1880
Historical College Name: Kentucky University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Roman A. Shaffel S.J.
President
1878 to 1880
Historical College Name: Creighton University
Current College Name: Creighton University
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Notes:
J. G. Burchett
President
1878 to 1881
Historical College Name: Baptist College at McMinnville
Current College Name: Linfield University
Location: McMinnville, Oregon
Notes:
Reverend P. V. Kavanagh C.M.
President
1878 to 1894
Historical College Name: The College and Seminary of Our Lady of the Angels/Niagara University
Current College Name: Niagara University
Location: Niagara University, New York
Notes: Institution became Niagara University in 1883
Alexander Townes Townes
President
1878 to 1894
Historical College Name: Greenville Woman’s College
Current College Name: Greenville Woman’s College
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Notes:
Reverend Jackson Burgess McMichael
President
1878 to 1897
Historical College Name: Monmouth College (IL)
Current College Name: Monmouth College
Location: Monmouth, Illinois
Notes:
Ross Clark Houghton
President
1878 to 1879
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Reverend F. Gautrelet S.J.
President
1878 to 1879
Historical College Name: Preparatory College of the Immaculate Conception
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Notes: Francis de Sales Gautrelet and F. Gautrelet appear to be the same person, but verification is needed.
Commodore Foxhall A. Parker
Superintendent
1878 to 1879
Historical College Name: United States Naval Academy
Current College Name: United States Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Notes:
John W. Stearns
President
1878 to 1885
Historical College Name: Whitewater Normal School
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Location: Whitewater, Wisconsin
Notes:
David B. Rice
President
1878 to 1879
Historical College Name: Albany Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Lewis and Clark College
Location: Albany, Oregon
Notes:
William Burns Paterson
President
1878 to 1915
Historical College Name: State Normal School and University for Colored Students and Teachers/Alabama Colored Peoples University/State Normal School for Colored Students
Current College Name: Alabama State University
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Notes: Institution became Alabama Colored Peoples University in 1887 and State Normal School for Colored Students in 1889
Helen E. Pelletreau
President
1878 to 1894
Historical College Name: Pennsylvania Female College/Pennsylvania College for Women
Current College Name: Chatham University
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes: Pelletreau served as acting president 1878 to 1881; Institution became Not to be confused with Pennsylvania College for Women in 1890
Josiah Little Pickard
President
1878 to 1887
Historical College Name: University of Iowa
Current College Name: University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Notes:
L. W. Minor
Principal
1878 to 1878
Historical College Name: Alta Vista Agricultural College
Current College Name: Prairie View A&M University
Location: Prairie View, Texas
Notes:
John H. French
Principal
1878 to 1881
Historical College Name: Indiana Normal School
Current College Name: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Location: Indiana, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Josiah Gorgas
President
1878 to 1879
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
Everett L. Rexford
President
1878 to 1880
Historical College Name: Buchtel College
Current College Name: University of Akron
Location: Akron, Ohio
Notes:
Francis Palmer
President
1878 to 1906
Historical College Name: Fredonia Normal School
Current College Name: State University of New York at Fredonia
Location: Fredonia, New York
Notes:
William Corthell
Principal
1878 to 1905
Historical College Name: Gorham Normal School
Current College Name: University of Southern Maine
Location: Gorham, Maine
Notes: The Gorham campus would combine with Portland to form what is University of Southern in 1971 Maine
Reverend Edward D. Boone S.J.
President
1878 to 1883
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend Henry B. Boude
President
1878 to 1881
Historical College Name: Austin College
Current College Name: Austin College
Location: Sherman, Texas
Notes:
Merritt Caldwell Fernald
President
1879 to 1893
Historical College Name: Maine State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Current College Name: University of Maine
Location: Orono, Maine
Notes:
Reverend George Meyer
President
1879 to 1887
Historical College Name: St. Mary’s Institute (OH)
Current College Name: University of Dayton
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Notes:
George T. Fairchild
President
1879 to 1897
Historical College Name: Kansas State Agricultural College
Current College Name: Kansas State University
Location: Manhattan, Kansas
Notes:
Brother Bettelin McMahon
President
1879 to 1891
Historical College Name: Saint Mary’s College of California
Current College Name: St. Mary’s College of California
Location: Moraga, California
Notes:
John R. Herrick
President
1879 to 1883
Historical College Name: Tualitin Academy and Pacific University
Current College Name: Pacific University
Location: Forest Grove, Oregon
Notes:
Elias DeWitt Huntley
President
1879 to 1883
Historical College Name: Lawrence University
Current College Name: Lawrence University
Location: Appleton, Wisconsin
Notes:
Elijah Evans Edwards
President
1879 to 1882
Historical College Name: Agricultural College of Colorado
Current College Name: Colorado State University
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
Notes:
Alfred Owen
President
1879 to 1886
Historical College Name: Denison University
Current College Name: Denison University
Location: Granville, Ohio
Notes:
Charles L. Flint
President
1879 to 1880
Historical College Name: Massachusetts Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
Francis Wayland Tustin
President, interim
1879 to 1879
Historical College Name: University at Lewisburg
Current College Name: Bucknell University
Location: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Daniel W. Phillips
President
1879 to 1883
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Rear Admiral George Balch
Superintendent
1879 to 1881
Historical College Name: United States Naval Academy
Current College Name: United States Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Notes:
James Quinter
President
1879 to 1888
Historical College Name: Brethren Normal School
Current College Name: Juniata College
Location: Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Notes:
David Jayne Hill
President
1879 to 1888
Historical College Name: University at Lewisburg/Bucknell University
Current College Name: Bucknell University
Location: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Notes: Institution renamed Bucknell University in 1886
John Garland James
President
1879 to 1883
Historical College Name: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Current College Name: Texas A&M University
Location: College Station, Texas
Notes:
Reverend Edgar J. Goodspeed
President
1879 to 1882
Historical College Name: Benedict Institute
Current College Name: Benedict College
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
William Barton Rogers
President
1879 to 1881
Historical College Name: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current College Name: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes: Rogers was appointed president pro tem in June 1878 and then president in December 1879
Rudolph J. Meyer
President
1879 to 1881
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
B. S. Potter
Principal
1879 to 1882
Historical College Name: Cumberland Valley State Normal School
Current College Name: Shippensburg University
Location: Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William Henry Sweet
President
1879 to 1886
Historical College Name: Baker University
Current College Name: Baker University
Location: Baldwin City, Kansas
Notes:
Bernard Mallon
Principal
1879 to 1879
Historical College Name: Sam Houston Normal Institute
Current College Name: Sam Houston State University
Location: Huntsville, Texas
Notes:
George Pliny Brown
President
1879 to 1885
Historical College Name: Indiana State Normal School
Current College Name: Indiana State University
Location: Terre Haute, Indiana
Notes:
Reverend Elbert Neal Condit
President
1879 to 1885
Historical College Name: Albany Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Lewis and Clark College
Location: Albany, Oregon
Notes:
Charles E. Lambert
President
1879 to 1880
Historical College Name: Willamette University
Current College Name: Willamette University
Location: Salem, Oregon
Notes:
Telfair Hodgson
Vice Chancellor
1879 to 1890
Historical College Name: University of the South
Current College Name: The University of the South
Location: Sewanee, Tennessee
Notes: Institution was also known as Sewanee, Sewanee College, or Sewanee University; Vice chancellor selected as the title for the chief executive
Hildreth H. Smith
Principal
1879 to 1881
Historical College Name: Sam Houston Normal Institute
Current College Name: Sam Houston State University
Location: Huntsville, Texas
Notes:
E. H. Anderson
Principal
1879 to 1885
Historical College Name: Prairie View Normal School
Current College Name: Prairie View A&M University
Location: Prairie View, Texas
Notes:
Thomas Henderson Pritchard
President
1879 to 1882
Historical College Name: Wake Forest College
Current College Name: Wake Forest University
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
William Stokes Wyman
President, acting
1879 to 1880
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
Richard Moberly Dudley
President
1879 to 1893
Historical College Name: Georgetown College
Current College Name: Georgetown College
Location: Georgetown, Kentucky
Notes:
John Lee Buchanan
President
1879 to 1880
Historical College Name: Emory and Henry College
Current College Name: Emory and Henry College
Location: Emory, Virginia
Notes:
John Lee Buchanan
President
1880 to 1882
Historical College Name: Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Location: Blacksburg, Virginia
Notes:
Josiah Lewis
President
1880 to 1881
Historical College Name: Southern University (Greensboro, AL)
Current College Name: Birmingham-Southern College
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notes:
Alonzo Collin
President, acting
1880 to 1881
Historical College Name: Cornell College
Current College Name: Cornell College
Location: Mount Vernon, Iowa
Notes:
Johann Peter Goebel
President
1880 to 1887
Historical College Name: Elmhurst Proseminary and Academy
Current College Name: Elmhurst University
Location: Elmhurst, Illinois
Notes:
Robert E. Kenna S.J.
President
1880 to 1883
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: University of San Francisco
Location: San Francisco, California
Notes:
Reverend Joseph A. Coleman O.S.A.
President
1880 to 1886
Historical College Name: Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Marion M. Bovard
President
1880 to 1891
Historical College Name: University of Southern California
Current College Name: University of Southern California
Location: Los Angeles, California
Notes:
Charles Wesley Emerson
President and founder
1880 to 1903
Historical College Name: Boston Conservatory of Elocution, Oratory, and Dramatic Art/Monroe Conservatory of Oratory/Emerson College of Oratory
Current College Name: Emerson College
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Notes: Emerson founded the institution as Boston Conservatory of Elocution in 1880. Emerson changed the name to Monroe College of Oratory in 1881. The institution became Emerson College of Oratory in 1890.
William Porcher Miles
President
1880 to 1882
Historical College Name: South Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanics
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes: Name changed to South Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanics
Sophia B. Packard
Co-founder/President
1880 to 1891
Historical College Name: Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary
Current College Name: Spelman College
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
William James Rolfe
President
1880 to 1903
Historical College Name: Emerson College of Oratory
Current College Name: Emerson College
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Notes:
Charles Lewis
President
1880 to 1892
Historical College Name: Norwich University
Current College Name: Norwich University
Location: Northfield, Vermont
Notes:
Thomas O’Neil S.J.
President
1880 to 1884
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Notes:
Charles Louis Loos
President
1880 to 1897
Historical College Name: Kentucky University
Current College Name: Transylvania University
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Notes:
Thomas H. Miles S.J.
President
1880 to 1883
Historical College Name: Creighton University
Current College Name: Creighton University
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Notes:
Levi Stockbridge
President
1880 to 1882
Historical College Name: Massachusetts Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
John A. Downey S.J.
President
1880 to 1883
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes:
John W. Beach
President
1880 to 1887
Historical College Name: Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Wesleyan University
Location: Middletown, Connecticut
Notes: Beach also held a LL.D.
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Principal
1880 to 1883
Historical College Name: State Colored Normal School
Current College Name: Fayetteville State university
Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina
Notes:
Charles Scott
President
1880 to 1893
Historical College Name: Hope College
Current College Name: Hope College
Location: Holland, Michigan
Notes:
David Hastings Moore
Chancellor
1880 to 1889
Historical College Name: University of Denver
Current College Name: University of Denver
Location: Denver, Colorado
Notes:
Horace Davis
President
1880 to 1890
Historical College Name: University of California
Current College Name: University of California
Location: Berkeley, California
Notes:
Henry Simmons Frieze
President, acting
1880 to 1882
Historical College Name: University of Michigan
Current College Name: University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Notes: Frieze stepped in as acting president while James Angell served as minister to China
Reverend T. W. Butler S.J.
President
1880 to 1887
Historical College Name: Preparatory College of the Immaculate Conception
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Notes:
Selim Hobart Peabody
President
1880 to 1891
Historical College Name: Illinois Industrial University/University of Illinois
Current College Name: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: Urbana, Illinois
Notes: Institution became University of Illinois in 1885
John Pinasco S.J.
President
1880 to 1883
Historical College Name: Santa Clara College
Current College Name: Santa Clara University
Location: Santa Clara, California
Notes:
Hightower Theodore Keiling
President/Principal
1880 to 1883
Historical College Name: Waco College/Paul Quinn College
Current College Name: Paul Quinn College
Location: Dallas, Texas
Notes: Institution became Paul Quinn College in 1881; conflicting sources refer to Keiling as both principal and president
Milton Goff
Chancellor, acting
1880 to 1881
Historical College Name: Western University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William Preston Johnston
President
1880 to 1883
Historical College Name: Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Louisiana State University
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Notes:
Inman E. Page
President
1880 to 1898
Historical College Name: Lincoln Institute (MO.)
Current College Name: Lincoln University of Missouri
Location: Jefferson City, Missouri
Notes:
Stephen D. Lee
President
1880 to 1899
Historical College Name: Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Mississippi State University
Location: Starkville, Mississippi
Notes:
Joseph Shortlidge
President
1880 to 1881
Historical College Name: The Pennsylvania State College
Current College Name: Pennsylvania State University
Location: State College, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Cyrus Hamlin
President
1880 to 1885
Historical College Name: Middlebury College
Current College Name: Middlebury College
Location: Middlebury, Vermont
Notes:
John Burns Weston
President, acting
1880 to 1881
Historical College Name: Antioch College
Current College Name: Antioch College
Location: Yellow Springs, Ohio
Notes:
Father Theophilus Pospisilik O.S.F.
President
1880 to 1886
Historical College Name: St. Bonaventure College and Seminary
Current College Name: St. Bonaventure University
Location: Saint Bonaventure, New York
Notes:
Thomas Van Scoy
President
1880 to 1891
Historical College Name: Willamette University
Current College Name: Willamette University
Location: Salem, Oregon
Notes:
Orello Cone
President
1880 to 1896
Historical College Name: Buchtel College
Current College Name: University of Akron
Location: Akron, Ohio
Notes:
Jeremiah O’Connor S.J.
President
1880 to 1884
Historical College Name: Boston College
Current College Name: Boston College
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Notes:
Robert Alexander Lamberton
President
1880 to 1893
Historical College Name: Lehigh University
Current College Name: Lehigh University
Location: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Burwell Boykin Lewis
President
1880 to 1885
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
Malcolm MacVicar
Principal
1880 to 1881
Historical College Name: Michigan State Normal School
Current College Name: Eastern Michigan University
Location: Ypsilanti, Michigan
Notes:
David Clarke John
President
1880 to 1883
Historical College Name: Hamline University
Current College Name: Hamline University
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Notes:
David Sullins
President
1880 to 1885
Historical College Name: Emory and Henry College
Current College Name: Emory and Henry College
Location: Emory, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend Matthias Wahlstrom
President
1881 to 1904
Historical College Name: Gustavus Adolphus College
Current College Name: Gustavus Adolphus College
Location: St. Peter, Minnesota
Notes: Walhstrom served as acting president in 1881 and 1882
Peter Born
President
1881 to 1893
Historical College Name: Evangelical Lutheran Missionary Institute
Current College Name: Susquehanna University
Location: Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Walter Quincy Scott
President
1881 to 1883
Historical College Name: Ohio State University
Current College Name: Ohio State University
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Notes:
Daniel Putnam
Principal
1881 to 1883
Historical College Name: Michigan State Normal School
Current College Name: Eastern Michigan University
Location: Ypsilanti, Michigan
Notes:
Harvey W. Everest
President
1881 to 1886
Historical College Name: Butler University
Current College Name: Butler University
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Notes:
Reverend Joseph F. Rigge S.J.
President
1881 to 1882
Historical College Name: Marquette College
Current College Name: Marquette University
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Notes:
William Fletcher King
President
1881 to 1908
Historical College Name: Cornell College
Current College Name: Cornell College
Location: Mount Vernon, Iowa
Notes:
Henry Darling
President
1881 to 1891
Historical College Name: Hamilton College
Current College Name: Hamilton College
Location: Clinton, New York
Notes:
John Hall
Chancellor
1881 to 1891
Historical College Name: University of the City of New York
Current College Name: New York University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Alice Freeman Palmer
President
1881 to 1887
Historical College Name: Wellesley College
Current College Name: Wellesley College
Location: Wellesley, Massachusetts
Notes:
Franklin Carter
President
1881 to 1901
Historical College Name: Williams College
Current College Name: Williams College
Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts
Notes:
William Thomas Reid
President
1881 to 1885
Historical College Name: University of California
Current College Name: University of California
Location: Berkeley, California
Notes:
Edward I. Devitt S.J.
President
1881 to 1894
Historical College Name: Boston College
Current College Name: Boston College
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Notes:
E. C. Anderson
President
1881 to 1887
Historical College Name: Baptist College at McMinnville
Current College Name: Linfield University
Location: McMinnville, Oregon
Notes:
Frederick E. Partington
Principal
1881 to 1884
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Benjamin Hudson Thackston
Principal
1881 to 1884
Historical College Name: Marshall College State Normal School
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
Booker Taliaferro Washington
President
1881 to 1915
Historical College Name: Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Current College Name: Tuskegee University
Location: Tuskegee, Alabama
Notes:
Stephen Phelps
President
1881 to 1886
Historical College Name: Coe College
Current College Name: Coe College
Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Notes:
William P. Nason
President
1881 to 1882
Historical College Name: First District Normal School (now Truman State University)
Current College Name: Truman State University
Location: Kirksville, Missouri
Notes:
Joseph H. Cummings
President
1881 to 1890
Historical College Name: Northwestern University
Current College Name: Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Notes:
J. A. Kunkelman
President
1881 to 1883
Historical College Name: Carthage College (IL)
Current College Name: Carthage College
Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Notes:
George Thomas Carpenter
President/Chancellor
1881 to 1893
Historical College Name: Drake University
Current College Name: Drake University
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Notes: Carpenter served as president 1881 to 1882 and chancellor 1882 to 1893
Henry Mitchell MacCracken
Chancellor
1881 to 1884
Historical College Name: Western University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend Thomas E. Walsh C.S.C.
President
1881 to 1893
Historical College Name: University of Notre Dame
Current College Name: University of Notre Dame
Location: South Bend, Indiana
Notes:
George Garner
President
1881 to 1884
Historical College Name: Central University of Iowa
Current College Name: Central College
Location: Pella, Iowa
Notes:
Reverend Rudolph J. Meyer S.J.
President
1881 to 1885
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Alexander McLearn
President
1881 to 1882
Historical College Name: Battle Creek College
Current College Name: Battle Creek College
Location: Battle Creek, Michigan
Notes:
Rear Admiral Christopher R.P. Rodgers
Superintendent
1881 to 1881
Historical College Name: United States Naval Academy
Current College Name: United States Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Notes:
Edward O. Thayer
President
1881 to 1890
Historical College Name: Clark University
Current College Name: Clark Atlanta University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
William Pepper
Provost
1881 to 1894
Historical College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Wilbur F. Steele
President
1881 to 1889
Historical College Name: Bennett College
Current College Name: Bennett College
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
Notes:
Francis Amasa Walker
President
1881 to 1897
Historical College Name: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current College Name: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes: Walker died in office January 5, 1897
John I. Coghlan
President
1881 to 1884
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Captain Francis Munroe Ramsay
Superintendent
1881 to 1886
Historical College Name: United States Naval Academy
Current College Name: United States Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Notes:
William E. Brooks
President
1881 to 1884
Historical College Name: Tillotson College
Current College Name: Huston-Tillotson University
Location: Austin, Texas
Notes:
Solomon Mead
Principal
1881 to 1882
Historical College Name: Storrs Agricultural School
Current College Name: University of Connecticut
Location: Storrs, Connecticut
Notes:
James Y. McKee
President, acting
1881 to 1882
Historical College Name: The Pennsylvania State College
Current College Name: Pennsylvania State University
Location: State College, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles N. Sims
Chancellor
1881 to 1893
Historical College Name: Syracuse University
Current College Name: Syracuse University
Location: Syracuse, New York
Notes:
Leonard H. Durling
Principal
1881 to 1888
Historical College Name: Indiana Normal School
Current College Name: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Location: Indiana, Pennsylvania
Notes:
James D. Moffat
President
1881 to 1914
Historical College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Current College Name: Washington and Jefferson College
Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles Manly
President
1881 to 1897
Historical College Name: Furman University
Current College Name: Furman University
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Notes:
Joseph Baldwin
Principal
1881 to 1891
Historical College Name: Sam Houston Normal Institute
Current College Name: Sam Houston State University
Location: Huntsville, Texas
Notes:
Major General Oliver Otis Howard
Superintendent
1881 to 1882
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Major General Wesley Merritt
Superintendent
1882 to 1887
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Reverend Edward Porter Palmer
President
1882 to 1885
Historical College Name: Austin College
Current College Name: Austin College
Location: Sherman, Texas
Notes:
Thomas Nelson Conrad
President
1882 to 1886
Historical College Name: Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Location: Blacksburg, Virginia
Notes:
Allen Andrews
President
1882 to 1894
Historical College Name: Southern University (Greensboro, AL)
Current College Name: Birmingham-Southern College
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notes:
James A. Doonan S.J.
President
1882 to 1888
Historical College Name: Georgetown University
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Reverend Edward A. Tanner
President
1882 to 1892
Historical College Name: Illinois College
Current College Name: Illinois College
Location: Jacksonville, Illinois
Notes:
John Houston Burrus
President
1882 to 1893
Historical College Name: Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Alcorn State University
Location: Lorman, Mississippi
Notes:
Reverend Isidore J. Boudreaux S.J.
President
1882 to 1884
Historical College Name: Marquette College
Current College Name: Marquette University
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Notes:
Edward P. Waterbury
Principal
1882 to 1889
Historical College Name: New York State Normal School
Current College Name: University at Albany, SUNY
Location: Albany, New York
Notes:
Henry Elliott Shepherd
President
1882 to 1897
Historical College Name: College of Charleston
Current College Name: College of Charleston
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
S. T. Anderson
President, acting
1882 to 1883
Historical College Name: Trinity University
Current College Name: Trinity University
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Notes:
William Maslin Frysinger
President
1882 to 1888
Historical College Name: Centenary Biblical Institute
Current College Name: Morgan State University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes:
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz
President
1882 to 1903
Historical College Name: Society for the Collegiate Instruction for Women/Radcliffe College
Current College Name: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Notes: became Radcliffe College in 1894
Charles L. Ingersoll
President
1882 to 1891
Historical College Name: Agricultural College of Colorado
Current College Name: Colorado State University
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
Notes:
Colonel John P. Thomas CSA
Superintendent
1882 to 1885
Historical College Name: The South Carolina Military Academy
Current College Name: The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
William Leroy Broun
President
1882 to 1883
Historical College Name: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama
Current College Name: Auburn University
Location: Auburn, Alabama
Notes:
Alexander Doak
President, acting
1882 to 1883
Historical College Name: Greeneville and Tusculum College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes:
Merrill Edward Gates
President
1882 to 1890
Historical College Name: Rutgers College
Current College Name: Rutgers University
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Notes:
William Lyne Wilson
President
1882 to 1883
Historical College Name: West Virginia University
Current College Name: West Virginia University
Location: Morgantown, West Virginia
Notes:
Reverend Patrick Dealy S.J.
President
1882 to 1885
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes:
Alexander Jay Anderson
President
1882 to 1891
Historical College Name: Whitman College
Current College Name: Whitman College
Location: Walla Walla, Washington
Notes:
Samuel Alfred Ort
President
1882 to 1900
Historical College Name: Wittenberg College
Current College Name: Wittenberg University
Location: Springfield, Ohio
Notes:
Joseph Philip Blanton
President
1882 to 1891
Historical College Name: First District Normal School (now Truman State University)
Current College Name: Truman State University
Location: Kirksville, Missouri
Notes:
D. M. Rush
President
1882 to 1885
Historical College Name: Centenary College of Louisiana
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes:
Reverend Charles E. Becker
President
1882 to 1895
Historical College Name: Benedict Institute/Benedict College
Current College Name: Benedict College
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes: Institute became Benedict College in 1891
Samuel B. Heiges
Principal
1882 to 1886
Historical College Name: Cumberland Valley State Normal School
Current College Name: Shippensburg University
Location: Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Augustine J. Smith
President
1882 to 1887
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
Joseph Price
President and founder
1882 to 1893
Historical College Name: Zion Wesley Institute/Zion Wesley College/Livingstone College
Current College Name: Livingstone College
Location: Salisbury, North Carolina
Notes: Institution became Zion Wesley College in 1885 and Livingstone College in 1887
George Dana Boardman Pepper
President
1882 to 1889
Historical College Name: Colby University
Current College Name: Colby College
Location: Waterville, Maine
Notes:
Ephraim M. Epstein
President
1882 to 1883
Historical College Name: University of South Dakota
Current College Name: University of South Dakota
Location: Vermillion, South Dakota
Notes:
Orin J. Wait
President
1882 to 1883
Historical College Name: Antioch College
Current College Name: Antioch College
Location: Yellow Springs, Ohio
Notes: institution was closed from 1881 to 1882 to let the endowment recover
George W. Atherton
President
1882 to 1906
Historical College Name: The Pennsylvania State College
Current College Name: Pennsylvania State University
Location: State College, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles Blanchard
President
1882 to 1925
Historical College Name: Wheaton College (IL)
Current College Name: Wheaton College
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
Notes:
Elizabeth Blanchard
Principal/President
1883 to 1889
Historical College Name: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary/Mount Holyoke Seminary and College
Current College Name: Mount Holyoke College
Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts
Notes: Institution became Mount Holyoke Seminary and College in 1888 and Blanchard’s title changed to president
Homer T. Fuller
President
1883 to 1894
Historical College Name: Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science/Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Current College Name: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes: Institution became Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1887
George Henry Bridgman
President
1883 to 1912
Historical College Name: Hamline University
Current College Name: Hamline University
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Notes:
George Williamson Smith
President
1883 to 1904
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Trinity College
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
William Henry Scott
President
1883 to 1895
Historical College Name: Ohio State University
Current College Name: Ohio State University
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Notes:
Edwin Willits
Principal
1883 to 1885
Historical College Name: Michigan State Normal School
Current College Name: Eastern Michigan University
Location: Ypsilanti, Michigan
Notes:
Joseph C. Sasia S.J.
President
1883 to 1887
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: University of San Francisco
Location: San Francisco, California
Notes:
J. W. Mallett
Chairman of the faculty
1883 to 1884
Historical College Name: University of Texas
Current College Name: University of Texas
Location: Austin, Texas
Notes:
McLaren John McBryde
President
1883 to 1891
Historical College Name: South Carolina College
Current College Name: University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Notes: Name changed back to South Carolina College
Francis W. Parker
Principal
1883 to 1899
Historical College Name: Cook County Normal School/Chicago Normal School
Current College Name: Chicago State University
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Notes: Institution became Chicago Normal School in 1896
Benjamin F. Shaub
Principal
1883 to 1887
Historical College Name: Millersville State Normal School
Current College Name: Millersville University
Location: Millersville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Joshua Lippincott
Chancellor
1883 to 1889
Historical College Name: University of Kansas
Current College Name: University of Kansas
Location: Lawrence, Kansas
Notes:
Jacob F. Ellis
President
1883 to 1891
Historical College Name: Tualitin Academy and Pacific University
Current College Name: Pacific University
Location: Forest Grove, Oregon
Notes:
Bradford Paul Raymond
President
1883 to 1889
Historical College Name: Lawrence University
Current College Name: Lawrence University
Location: Appleton, Wisconsin
Notes:
Joseph G. Zealand S.J.
President
1883 to 1884
Historical College Name: Creighton University
Current College Name: Creighton University
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Notes:
Benjamin G. McLeskey
President
1883 to 1885
Historical College Name: Trinity University
Current College Name: Trinity University
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Notes:
David McKiniry S.J.
President
1883 to 1887
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes:
Richard McIlwaine
President
1883 to 1904
Historical College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Current College Name: Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
Notes:
David H. Wheeler
President
1883 to 1888
Historical College Name: Allegheny College
Current College Name: Allegheny College
Location: Meadville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Ezekiel Ezra Smith
Principal
1883 to 1888
Historical College Name: State Colored Normal School
Current College Name: Fayetteville State university
Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina
Notes:
William Penn Pinkham
President, acting
1883 to 1884
Historical College Name: Earlham College
Current College Name: Earlham College
Location: Earlham, Indiana
Notes:
Henry Hill Goodell
President, acting
1883 to 1883
Historical College Name: Massachusetts Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
Marquis Lafayette Wood
President
1883 to 1884
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Duke University
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Notes:
David French Boyd
President
1883 to 1884
Historical College Name: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama
Current College Name: Auburn University
Location: Auburn, Alabama
Notes:
Jeremiah Moore
President
1883 to 1901
Historical College Name: Greeneville and Tusculum College
Current College Name: Tusculum University
Location: Greeneville, Tennessee
Notes:
J. S. Detweiler
President
1883 to 1884
Historical College Name: Carthage College (IL)
Current College Name: Carthage College
Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Notes:
Thomas Mason
President
1883 to 1896
Historical College Name: Philander Smith College
Current College Name: Philander Smith College
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
Notes:
James C. Greenough
President
1883 to 1886
Historical College Name: Massachusetts Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
Henry H. Rassweiler
President
1883 to 1888
Historical College Name: North-Western College
Current College Name: North Central College
Location: Naperville, Illinois
Notes:
William Fletcher Swahlen
President
1883 to 1886
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
James Hall Mason Knox
President
1883 to 1890
Historical College Name: Lafayette College
Current College Name: Lafayette College
Location: Easton, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Robert E. Kenna S.J.
President
1883 to 1888
Historical College Name: Santa Clara College
Current College Name: Santa Clara University
Location: Santa Clara, California
Notes:
Wolcott H. Littlejohn
President
1883 to 1885
Historical College Name: Battle Creek College
Current College Name: Battle Creek College
Location: Battle Creek, Michigan
Notes:
Isaac M. Burgan
President/Principal
1883 to 1891
Historical College Name: Paul Quinn College
Current College Name: Paul Quinn College
Location: Dallas, Texas
Notes: Conflicting sources refer to Burgan as both principal and president
Seaman Knapp
President
1883 to 1884
Historical College Name: Iowa State Agricultural College
Current College Name: Iowa State University
Location: Ames, Iowa
Notes:
Hardaway Hunt Dinwiddie
Chairman of the Faculty
1883 to 1887
Historical College Name: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Current College Name: Texas A&M University
Location: College Station, Texas
Notes:
James H. Smart
President
1883 to 1900
Historical College Name: Purdue University
Current College Name: Purdue University
Location: La Fayette, Indiana
Notes:
James W. Nicholson
President, interim
1883 to 1884
Historical College Name: Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Louisiana State University
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Notes:
Benjamin F. Koons
Principal/President
1883 to 1898
Historical College Name: Storrs Agricultural School/Storrs Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Connecticut
Location: Storrs, Connecticut
Notes: Koons became president in 1893; Institution became Storrs Agricultural College in 1893
Reverend Theodore Van Rossum S.J.
President
1883 to 1888
Historical College Name: Canisius College
Current College Name: Canisius College
Location: Buffalo, New York
Notes:
Sylvester Fithian Scovel
President
1883 to 1899
Historical College Name: University of Wooster
Current College Name: College of Wooster
Location: Wooster, Ohio
Notes:
George M. Laughlin
President
1883 to 1887
Historical College Name: Hiram College
Current College Name: Hiram College
Location: Hiram, Ohio
Notes:
John Simonds
President
1883 to 1885
Historical College Name: University of South Dakota
Current College Name: University of South Dakota
Location: Vermillion, South Dakota
Notes:
Daniel Albright Long
President
1883 to 1899
Historical College Name: Antioch College
Current College Name: Antioch College
Location: Yellow Springs, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend Robert W. Brady S.J.
President
1883 to 1887
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Cyrus Northrop
President
1884 to 1911
Historical College Name: University of Minnesota
Current College Name: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Notes:
Robert Gracey Ferguson
President
1884 to 1906
Historical College Name: Westminster Collegiate Institute/Westminster College (PA)
Current College Name: Westminster College
Location: New Wilmington, Pennsylvania
Notes: Institution became Westminster College in 1897
Lewis M. Dunton
President
1884 to 1922
Historical College Name: Claflin University
Current College Name: Claflin University
Location: Orangeburg, South Carolina
Notes:
Reverend Eliphalet Nott Potter
President
1884 to 1897
Historical College Name: Hobart College
Current College Name: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Location: Geneva, New York
Notes:
Richard W. Jones
President
1884 to 1888
Historical College Name: Industrial Institute and College
Current College Name: Mississippi University for Women
Location: Columbus, Mississippi
Notes:
Reverend W. A. Holliday
President
1884 to 1885
Historical College Name: Biddle University
Current College Name: Johnson C. Smith University
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Notes:
Reverend Thomas S. Fitzgerald S.J.
President
1884 to 1887
Historical College Name: Marquette College
Current College Name: Marquette University
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Notes:
William M. Blackburn
President
1884 to 1885
Historical College Name: University of North Dakota
Current College Name: University of North Dakota
Location: Grand Forks, North Dakota
Notes:
Leslie Waggener
Chairman of the faculty
1884 to 1894
Historical College Name: University of Texas
Current College Name: University of Texas
Location: Austin, Texas
Notes:
Woodbridge N. Ferris
President and founder
1884 to 1928
Historical College Name: The Big Rapids Industrial School/Ferris Industrial School/Ferris Institute
Current College Name: Ferris State University
Location: Big Rapids, Michigan
Notes: Institution became Ferris Industrial School in 1885 and Ferris Institute in 1898
Joseph G. Zealand S.J.
President
1884 to 1887
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Notes:
Edward Rondthaler
Principal
1884 to 1888
Historical College Name: Salem Female Academy/Salem Female Academy and College
Current College Name: Salem Academy and College
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes: Institution became Salem Female Academy and College in 1886
Isaac Stiles Hopkins
President
1884 to 1888
Historical College Name: Emory College
Current College Name: Emory University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Charles William Super
President
1884 to 1896
Historical College Name: Ohio University
Current College Name: Ohio University
Location: Athens, Ohio
Notes:
George N. Marden
Chair of the faculty
1884 to 1888
Historical College Name: Colorado College
Current College Name: Colorado College
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Notes:
George Matthews Edgar
President
1884 to 1887
Historical College Name: Arkansas Industrial University
Current College Name: University of Arkansas
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
Notes:
Christian Johann Albrecht
Director, acting
1884 to 1885
Historical College Name: Dr. Martin Luther College
Current College Name: Dr. Martin Luther College
Location: New Ulm, Minnesota
Notes:
Henry A. Balcom
Principal
1884 to 1885
Historical College Name: New Paltz Academy
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Hugh M. Finnegan S.J.
President
1884 to 1885
Historical College Name: Creighton University
Current College Name: Creighton University
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Notes:
George P. Beard
Principal
1884 to 1887
Historical College Name: Central State Normal School
Current College Name: Lock Haven University
Location: Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William Joseph Kenny, Sr.
Principal
1884 to 1886
Historical College Name: Marshall College State Normal School
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
Joseph John Mills
President
1884 to 1903
Historical College Name: Earlham College
Current College Name: Earlham College
Location: Earlham, Indiana
Notes:
Jacob Dolson Cox
President
1884 to 1889
Historical College Name: University of Cincinnati
Current College Name: University of Cincinnati
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
James Irving Manatt
President
1884 to 1888
Historical College Name: University of Nebraska
Current College Name: University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
Notes:
William Preston Johnston
President
1884 to 1899
Historical College Name: Tulane University
Current College Name: Tulane University
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Notes:
William Leroy Broun
President
1884 to 1902
Historical College Name: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama/Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Current College Name: Auburn University
Location: Auburn, Alabama
Notes: Institution became Alabama Polytechnic Institution in 1899
E. F. Bartholomew
President
1884 to 1888
Historical College Name: Carthage College (IL)
Current College Name: Carthage College
Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Notes:
Samuel T. Mitchell
President
1884 to 1900
Historical College Name: Wilberforce University
Current College Name: Wilberforce University
Location: Wilberforce, Ohio
Notes:
Samuel Jay Buck
President
1884 to 1887
Historical College Name: Iowa College
Current College Name: Grinnell College
Location: Grinnell, Iowa
Notes:
Milton Goff
Chancellor
1884 to 1890
Historical College Name: Western University of Pennsylvania
Current College Name: University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes:
David French Boyd
President
1884 to 1886
Historical College Name: Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Louisiana State University
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Notes:
George W. Lilley
President
1884 to 1885
Historical College Name: Dakota Agricultural College
Current College Name: South Dakota State University
Location: Brookings, South Dakota
Notes:
David Starr Jordan
President
1884 to 1891
Historical College Name: Indiana University
Current College Name: Indiana University
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Notes:
Henry Moeller
President
1884 to 1885
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
John Kershaw
President
1884 to 1886
Historical College Name: Tillotson College
Current College Name: Huston-Tillotson University
Location: Austin, Texas
Notes:
Reverend Thomas A. McCurdy
President
1884 to 1890
Historical College Name: Macalester College
Current College Name: Macalester College
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Notes:
Harvey Washington McKnight
President
1884 to 1904
Historical College Name: Pennsylvania College
Current College Name: Gettysburg College
Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles Elisha Taylor
President
1884 to 1905
Historical College Name: Wake Forest College
Current College Name: Wake Forest University
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
Edward V. Boursaud S.J.
President
1884 to 1887
Historical College Name: Boston College
Current College Name: Boston College
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend Dr. Augustus Schultze
President
1885 to 1918
Historical College Name: Moravian College and Theological Seminary
Current College Name: Moravian University
Location: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Edwin Willits
President
1885 to 1889
Historical College Name: State Agricultural College
Current College Name: Michigan State University
Location: East Lansing, Michigan
Notes:
John R. Herrick
President
1885 to 1887
Historical College Name: University of South Dakota
Current College Name: University of South Dakota
Location: Vermillion, South Dakota
Notes:
William Stokes Wyman
President, acting
1885 to 1886
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
N. D. Clifford
President
1885 to 1888
Historical College Name: Wiley University
Current College Name: Wiley College
Location: Marshall, Texas
Notes:
E. E. Hoss
President
1885 to 1886
Historical College Name: Emory and Henry College
Current College Name: Emory and Henry College
Location: Emory, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend Donald Macgregor
President
1885 to 1887
Historical College Name: Austin College
Current College Name: Austin College
Location: Sherman, Texas
Notes:
Homer Baxter Sprague
President
1885 to 1887
Historical College Name: Mills Seminary and College/Mills College
Current College Name: Mills College
Location: Oakland, California
Notes: Institution became Mills College in 1885
John Wesley Heidt
President
1885 to 1889
Historical College Name: Southwestern University
Current College Name: Southwestern University
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Notes:
Charles Kendall Adams
President
1885 to 1892
Historical College Name: Cornell University
Current College Name: Cornell University
Location: Ithaca, New York
Notes:
Reverend John Willms
Rector
1885 to 1886
Historical College Name: Pittsburgh Catholic College
Current College Name: Duquesne University
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Daniel Putnam
Principal
1885 to 1886
Historical College Name: Michigan State Normal School
Current College Name: Eastern Michigan University
Location: Ypsilanti, Michigan
Notes:
Samuel T. Graves
President
1885 to 1890
Historical College Name: Augusta Baptist Seminary
Current College Name: Morehouse College
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Edward P. Hooker
President
1885 to 1892
Historical College Name: Rollins College
Current College Name: Rollins College
Location: Winter Park, Florida
Notes:
Charles Bullock
President
1885 to 1900
Historical College Name: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Current College Name: University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John S. Eaton
President
1885 to 1891
Historical College Name: Marietta College
Current College Name: Marietta College
Location: Marietta, Ohio
Notes:
James Rhoads
President
1885 to 1894
Historical College Name: Bryn Mawr College
Current College Name: Bryn Mawr
Location: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William DeWitt Hyde
President
1885 to 1917
Historical College Name: Bowdoin College
Current College Name: Bowdoin College
Location: Brunswick, Maine
Notes:
John Wilson Simpson
President
1885 to 1891
Historical College Name: Marietta College
Current College Name: Marietta College
Location: Marietta, Ohio
Notes:
Edward Singleton Holden
President
1885 to 1888
Historical College Name: University of California
Current College Name: University of California
Location: Berkeley, California
Notes:
David Allen Reed
President
1885 to 1891
Historical College Name: School for Christian Workers
Current College Name: Springfield College
Location: Springfield, Massachusetts
Notes:
Luther Apelles Johnson
President
1885 to 1889
Historical College Name: Trinity University
Current College Name: Trinity University
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Notes:
Brigadier General George D. Johnston
Superintendent
1885 to 1890
Historical College Name: The South Carolina Military Academy
Current College Name: The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Notes:
Reddin Andrews
President
1885 to 1886
Historical College Name: Baylor University
Current College Name: Baylor University
Location: Waco, Texas
Notes:
Robert W. McFarland
President
1885 to 1888
Historical College Name: Miami University
Current College Name: Miami University
Location: Oxford, Ohio
Notes: McFarland appointed pro tempore in 1885, but later considered regular president
Otto Hoyer
Director
1885 to 1893
Historical College Name: Dr. Martin Luther College
Current College Name: Dr. Martin Luther College
Location: New Ulm, Minnesota
Notes:
John Hollis Caldwell
President
1885 to 1888
Historical College Name: Delaware College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes:
Theron B. Pray
President, interim
1885 to 1885
Historical College Name: Whitewater Normal School
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Location: Whitewater, Wisconsin
Notes:
Michael P. Dowling S.J.
President
1885 to 1889
Historical College Name: Creighton University
Current College Name: Creighton University
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Notes:
Eli Marsh Turner
President
1885 to 1893
Historical College Name: West Virginia University
Current College Name: West Virginia University
Location: Morgantown, West Virginia
Notes:
Reverend Thomas J. Campbell S.J.
President
1885 to 1888
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes:
Reverend Daniel Reed
President
1885 to 1886
Historical College Name: Central University of Iowa
Current College Name: Central College
Location: Pella, Iowa
Notes:
Reverend Luther McKinnon
President
1885 to 1888
Historical College Name: Davidson College
Current College Name: Davidson College
Location: Davidson, North Carolina
Notes:
Reverend Henry Moeller S.J.
President
1885 to 1889
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Albert Salisbury
President
1885 to 1911
Historical College Name: Whitewater Normal School
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Location: Whitewater, Wisconsin
Notes:
Thomas M. Dart
President
1885 to 1888
Historical College Name: Samuel Huston College
Current College Name: Huston-Tillotson University
Location: Austin, Texas
Notes:
Eben Carleton Sprague
Chancellor
1885 to 1895
Historical College Name: University of Buffalo
Current College Name: University of Buffalo
Location: Buffalo, New York
Notes:
William Wood Parsons
President
1885 to 1921
Historical College Name: Indiana State Normal School
Current College Name: Indiana State University
Location: Terre Haute, Indiana
Notes:
Joseph C. Wyckoff
President
1885 to 1886
Historical College Name: Albany Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Lewis and Clark College
Location: Albany, Oregon
Notes:
Reverend Mr. Black
President
1885 to 1888
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes: First name not known
Thomas Albert Smith Adams
President
1885 to 1888
Historical College Name: Centenary College of Louisiana
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes:
Thomas S. Chase
President, acting
1885 to 1886
Historical College Name: Atlanta University
Current College Name: Clark Atlanta University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
William W. Prescott
President
1885 to 1894
Historical College Name: Battle Creek College
Current College Name: Battle Creek College
Location: Battle Creek, Michigan
Notes:
Ezra Brainerd
President
1885 to 1908
Historical College Name: Middlebury College
Current College Name: Middlebury College
Location: Middlebury, Vermont
Notes:
Leigh Hunt
President
1885 to 1886
Historical College Name: Iowa State Agricultural College
Current College Name: Iowa State University
Location: Ames, Iowa
Notes:
L. C. Anderson
Principal
1885 to 1887
Historical College Name: Prairie View Normal School
Current College Name: Prairie View A&M University
Location: Prairie View, Texas
Notes:
John F. Forbes
President
1885 to 1904
Historical College Name: John B. Stetson University
Current College Name: Stetson University
Location: DeLand, Florida
Notes:
Reverend Francis Smith S.J.
President
1885 to 1891
Historical College Name: Loyola College (MD)
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes:
Edward A. Higgins
President
1885 to 1887
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Henry DeLamar Clayton
President
1886 to 1889
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
James Monroe Taylor
President
1886 to 1914
Historical College Name: Vassar College
Current College Name: Vassar College
Location: Poughkeepsie, New York
Notes:
Reverend Edward Lewis
President
1886 to 1889
Historical College Name: Chattanooga University
Current College Name: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee
Notes:
William Hersey Hopkins
President
1886 to 1890
Historical College Name: Woman’s College of Baltimore City
Current College Name: Goucher College
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes:
Allen R. Benton
President
1886 to 1891
Historical College Name: Butler University
Current College Name: Butler University
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Notes:
T.W. Jordan
President
1886 to 1888
Historical College Name: Emory and Henry College
Current College Name: Emory and Henry College
Location: Emory, Virginia
Notes:
Lunsford Lindsay Lomax
President
1886 to 1891
Historical College Name: Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Location: Blacksburg, Virginia
Notes:
David Bancroft Johnson
President
1886 to 1928
Historical College Name: Winthrop Training School for Teachers/South Carolina Industrial and Winthrop Normal College/Winthrop Normal and Industrial College of South Carolina/Winthrop College
Current College Name: Winthrop University
Location: Rock Hill, South Carolina
Notes: Institution became South Carolina Industrial and Winthrop Normal College in 1891, Winthrop Normal and Industrial College of South Carolina in 1893, and Winthrop College in 1920
Reverend Francis M. Sheeran O.S.A.
President
1886 to 1890
Historical College Name: Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William Gurley
President, acting
1886 to 1887
Historical College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Current College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location: Troy, New York
Notes:
Reverend John Tuohill Murphy
President
1886 to 1899
Historical College Name: Pittsburgh Catholic College
Current College Name: Duquesne University
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John Mahelm Berry Sill
Principal
1886 to 1893
Historical College Name: Michigan State Normal School
Current College Name: Eastern Michigan University
Location: Ypsilanti, Michigan
Notes:
Reverend W. F. Johnson
President
1886 to 1891
Historical College Name: Biddle University
Current College Name: Johnson C. Smith University
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Notes:
James Speed Pirtle
President
1886 to 1905
Historical College Name: University of Louisville
Current College Name: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Notes:
John Mercer Langston
President
1886 to 1887
Historical College Name: Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Virginia State University
Location: Petersburg, Virginia
Notes:
Thomas Hamilton Lewis
President
1886 to 1920
Historical College Name: Western Maryland College
Current College Name: McDaniel College
Location: Westminster, Maryland
Notes:
Nathan Smith Burton
President, acting
1886 to 1886
Historical College Name: Denison University
Current College Name: Denison University
Location: Granville, Ohio
Notes:
Homer Horatio Seerley
Principal/President
1886 to 1928
Historical College Name: Iowa State Normal School/Iowa State Teachers College
Current College Name: University of Northern Iowa
Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
Notes: Institution became Iowa State Teachers College in 1909
Edward Mayes
Chancellor
1886 to 1892
Historical College Name: University of Mississippi
Current College Name: University of Mississippi
Location: Oxford, Mississippi
Notes:
Eugene Bouton
Principal
1886 to 1888
Historical College Name: New Paltz Normal
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Franklin Reuben Carpenter
Dean
1886 to 1889
Historical College Name: Dakota School of Mines
Current College Name: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Location: Rapid City, South Dakota
Notes:
Rufus Columbus Burleson
President
1886 to 1897
Historical College Name: Baylor University
Current College Name: Baylor University
Location: Waco, Texas
Notes:
Thomas Edward Hodges
Principal
1886 to 1896
Historical College Name: Marshall College State Normal School
Current College Name: Marshall University
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Notes:
John B. Neustich S.J.
President
1886 to 1888
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: John Carroll University
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Notes:
James Rebmann S.J.
President
1886 to 1890
Historical College Name: Gonzaga College
Current College Name: Gonzaga University
Location: Spokane, Washington
Notes:
Cady Staley
President
1886 to 1902
Historical College Name: Case School of Applied Science
Current College Name: Case Western Reserve University
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Notes:
Henry Hill Goodell
President, acting
1886 to 1905
Historical College Name: Massachusetts Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Notes:
Edward A. Whitwam
President
1886 to 1887
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
William Waugh Smith
President
1886 to 1897
Historical College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Current College Name: Randolph-Macon College
Location: Ashland, Virginia
Notes:
Hillary Asbury Gobin
President
1886 to 1890
Historical College Name: Baker University
Current College Name: Baker University
Location: Baldwin City, Kansas
Notes:
Joseph E. Stubbs
President
1886 to 1894
Historical College Name: Baldwin University
Current College Name: Baldwin Wallace University
Location: Berea, Ohio
Notes:
Edward Dwight Eaton
President
1886 to 1905
Historical College Name: Beloit College
Current College Name: Beloit College
Location: Beloit, Wisconsin
Notes:
Lewis Dunn
President
1886 to 1888
Historical College Name: Central University of Iowa
Current College Name: Central College
Location: Pella, Iowa
Notes:
Charles S. Venable
Chairman of the Faculty
1886 to 1888
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
John Henry Jackson
President
1886 to 1898
Historical College Name: Kentucky Normal Institute
Current College Name: Kentucky State University
Location: Frankfort, Kentucky
Notes:
Commander William Thomas Sampson
Superintendent
1886 to 1890
Historical College Name: United States Naval Academy
Current College Name: United States Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Notes:
John Frederick McCreary
Principal
1886 to 1889
Historical College Name: Cumberland Valley State Normal School
Current College Name: Shippensburg University
Location: Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Benjamin O. Bird
Principal
1886 to 1897
Historical College Name: Princess Anne Academy
Current College Name: University of Maryland, Eastern Shore
Location: Princess Anne, Maryland
Notes:
William Asbury Williams
President
1886 to 1901
Historical College Name: Franklin College
Current College Name: Franklin College
Location: New Athens, Ohio
Notes:
Horace Bumstead
President, acting
1886 to 1887
Historical College Name: Atlanta University
Current College Name: Clark Atlanta University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Reverend Timothy Dwight IV
President
1886 to 1899
Historical College Name: Yale University
Current College Name: Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Notes: grandson of Timothy Dwight, IV
William Starr Basinger
President
1886 to 1893
Historical College Name: North Georgia Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of North Georgia
Location: Dahlonega, Georgia
Notes:
Hiram Bradford Farmer
Principal
1886 to 1888
Historical College Name: Territorial Normal School
Current College Name: Arizona State University
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Notes:
Thomas D. Boyd
President
1886 to 1887
Historical College Name: Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Louisiana State University
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Notes:
Henry L. Hubbell
President
1886 to 1888
Historical College Name: Tillotson College
Current College Name: Huston-Tillotson University
Location: Austin, Texas
Notes:
William Chamberlain
President
1886 to 1890
Historical College Name: Iowa State Agricultural College
Current College Name: Iowa State University
Location: Ames, Iowa
Notes:
Earl T. Lockhard
President
1886 to 1886
Historical College Name: Albany Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Lewis and Clark College
Location: Albany, Oregon
Notes:
Cyrus W. Vance
President, acting
1887 to 1888
Historical College Name: Atlanta University
Current College Name: Clark Atlanta University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Reverend Frank G. Woodworth
President
1887 to 1912
Historical College Name: Tougaloo University
Current College Name: Tougaloo College
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Notes:
Alexander Millar
President
1887 to 1902
Historical College Name: Central Collegiate Institute/Hendrix College
Current College Name: Hendrix College
Location: Conway, Arkansas
Notes: Institution became Hendrix College in 1889
Colman Bancroft
President, acting
1887 to 1888
Historical College Name: Hiram College
Current College Name: Hiram College
Location: Hiram, Ohio
Notes:
James W. Nicholson
President
1887 to 1896
Historical College Name: Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Current College Name: Louisiana State University
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Notes:
Henry Schapman
President
1887 to 1893
Historical College Name: St. Xavier College
Current College Name: Xavier University
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Thomas DeSaille Tucker
President
1887 to 1901
Historical College Name: The State Normal College for Colored Students
Current College Name: Florida A&M University
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
Notes:
Reverend Samuel Cahill S.J.
President
1887 to 1889
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Thomas H. Stack S.J.
President
1887 to 1887
Historical College Name: Boston College
Current College Name: Boston College
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Notes:
Charles Pratt
Founder and president
1887 to 1891
Historical College Name: Pratt Institute
Current College Name: Pratt Institute
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Notes:
Major General John Parke
Superintendent
1887 to 1889
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
Edward Olson
President
1887 to 1889
Historical College Name: University of South Dakota
Current College Name: University of South Dakota
Location: Vermillion, South Dakota
Notes:
Daniel Irion
President
1887 to 1919
Historical College Name: Elmhurst Proseminary and Academy/
Current College Name: Elmhurst University
Location: Elmhurst, Illinois
Notes:
Reverend John Harks
President
1887 to 1889
Historical College Name: St. Mary’s Institute (OH)
Current College Name: University of Dayton
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Notes:
Nicholas Russo S.J.
President
1887 to 1888
Historical College Name: Boston College
Current College Name: Boston College
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Notes:
Hiram L. Haydn
President
1887 to 1890
Historical College Name: Western Reserve University
Current College Name: Case Western Reserve University
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Notes:
Russell H. Conwell
President
1887 to 1925
Historical College Name: Temple College/Temple College of Philadelphia/Temple University
Current College Name: Temple University
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes: The Institution became Temple University in 1907
Bishop John J. Keane
Rector
1887 to 1896
Historical College Name: Catholic University of America
Current College Name: Catholic University of America
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Reverend Samuel Magoffin Luckett
President
1887 to 1897
Historical College Name: Austin College
Current College Name: Austin College
Location: Sherman, Texas
Notes:
Henry Imoda S.J.
President
1887 to 1893
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: University of San Francisco
Location: San Francisco, California
Notes:
Marshman E. Wadsworth
President
1887 to 1898
Historical College Name: Michigan College of Mines
Current College Name: Michigan Technological University
Location: Houghton, Michigan
Notes:
Charles Carroll Stratton
President
1887 to 1890
Historical College Name: Mills College
Current College Name: Mills College
Location: Oakland, California
Notes:
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
President
1887 to 1892
Historical College Name: University of Wisconsin
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Notes:
A. C. Hirst
President
1887 to 1891
Historical College Name: University of the Pacific
Current College Name: University of the Pacific
Location: Stockton, California
Notes:
Leroy Brown
President
1887 to 1889
Historical College Name: University of Nevada
Current College Name: University of Nevada, Reno
Location: Reno, Nevada
Notes:
William H. Woolery
President
1887 to 1889
Historical College Name: Bethany College
Current College Name: Bethany College
Location: Bethany, West Virginia
Notes:
Horace M. Hale
President
1887 to 1892
Historical College Name: University of Colorado
Current College Name: University of Colorado
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Notes:
Mother Alexia Hoell
Considered first president
1887 to 1907
Historical College Name: St. Joseph’s Normal School
Current College Name: Alverno College
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Notes:
Albert E. Powers
President, acting
1887 to 1888
Historical College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Current College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location: Troy, New York
Notes:
Helen Shafer
President
1887 to 1894
Historical College Name: Wellesley College
Current College Name: Wellesley College
Location: Wellesley, Massachusetts
Notes:
Reverend Stanislaus P. La Lumiere S.J.
President
1887 to 1889
Historical College Name: Marquette College
Current College Name: Marquette University
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Notes:
Homer Baxter Sprague
President
1887 to 1891
Historical College Name: University of North Dakota
Current College Name: University of North Dakota
Location: Grand Forks, North Dakota
Notes:
Eliphalet O. Lyte
Principal
1887 to 1912
Historical College Name: Millersville State Normal School
Current College Name: Millersville University
Location: Millersville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Leonard Jackson Powell
President
1887 to 1895
Historical College Name: Territorial University of Washington/University of Washington
Current College Name: University of Washington
Location: Seattle, Washington
Notes: Institution became University of Washington in 1889 when the territory of Washington became a state
Truman G. Brownson
President
1887 to 1896
Historical College Name: Baptist College at McMinnville/McMinnville College
Current College Name: Linfield University
Location: McMinnville, Oregon
Notes: Institution became McMinnville College in 1890
Edward A. Higgins S.J.
President
1887 to 1891
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Notes:
A. J. Davis
Principal
1887 to 1902
Historical College Name: Clarion State Normal School
Current College Name: PennWest Clarion
Location: Clarion, Pennsylvania
Notes:
James Hugo Johnston
President
1887 to 1914
Historical College Name: Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute/Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
Current College Name: Virginia State University
Location: Petersburg, Virginia
Notes: Institution became Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute in 1902
Galusha Anderson
President
1887 to 1889
Historical College Name: Denison University
Current College Name: Denison University
Location: Granville, Ohio
Notes:
James Lonergan S.J.
President
1887 to 1896
Historical College Name: Spring Hill College
Current College Name: Spring Hill College
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Notes:
Thomas Milton Gatch
President
1887 to 1895
Historical College Name: University of Washington
Current College Name: University of Washington
Location: Seattle, Washington
Notes:
Edward Hunter Murfee
President
1887 to 1894
Historical College Name: Arkansas Industrial University
Current College Name: University of Arkansas
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
Notes:
Isaac Sharpless
President
1887 to 1917
Historical College Name: Haverford College
Current College Name: Haverford College
Location: Haverford, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend Samuel A. Weller
President
1887 to 1891
Historical College Name: The Occidental University of Los Angeles
Current College Name: Occidental College
Location: Los Angeles, California
Notes:
James Marshall
President
1887 to 1896
Historical College Name: Coe College
Current College Name: Coe College
Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Notes:
Monson A. Willcox
President
1887 to 1891
Historical College Name: Kalamazoo College
Current College Name: Kalamazoo College
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Notes:
Henry Simmons Frieze
President, acting
1887 to 1887
Historical College Name: University of Michigan
Current College Name: University of Michigan
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Notes: Frieze stepped in as acting president while James Angell served on U.S.-Canada commissions
Reverend J. F. O’Conner S.J.
President
1887 to 1890
Historical College Name: Preparatory College of the Immaculate Conception
Current College Name: Loyola University
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Notes:
James Eldon
Principal
1887 to 1900
Historical College Name: Central State Normal School
Current College Name: Lock Haven University
Location: Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John Franklin Crowell
President
1887 to 1894
Historical College Name: Trinity College
Current College Name: Duke University
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Notes:
Charles Ashmead Schaeffer
President
1887 to 1898
Historical College Name: University of Iowa
Current College Name: University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Notes:
Colonel William Joseph Martin, Sr.
President, acting
1887 to 1888
Historical College Name: Davidson College
Current College Name: Davidson College
Location: Davidson, North Carolina
Notes:
John Wesley Hoyt
President
1887 to 1890
Historical College Name: University of Wyoming
Current College Name: University of Wyoming
Location: Laramie, Wyoming
Notes:
George Matthews Edgar
President
1887 to 1892
Historical College Name: Seminary West of the Suwannee River
Current College Name: Florida State University
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
Notes:
George Augustus Gates
President
1887 to 1900
Historical College Name: Iowa College
Current College Name: Grinnell College
Location: Grinnell, Iowa
Notes:
Isaiah Villars
President
1887 to 1889
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
James L. Bryan
President
1887 to 1887
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
Reverend Elbert Neal Condit
President
1887 to 1894
Historical College Name: Albany Collegiate Institute
Current College Name: Lewis and Clark College
Location: Albany, Oregon
Notes:
Lewis McLouth
President
1887 to 1896
Historical College Name: Dakota Agricultural College
Current College Name: South Dakota State University
Location: Brookings, South Dakota
Notes:
Father Joseph Butler O.F.M.
President
1887 to 1911
Historical College Name: St. Bonaventure College and Seminary
Current College Name: St. Bonaventure University
Location: Saint Bonaventure, New York
Notes:
Charles W. Dabney
President
1887 to 1904
Historical College Name: University of Tennessee
Current College Name: University of Tennessee
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Notes:
Allen Dodge
President
1887 to 1888
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
Edmund S. Lorenz
President
1887 to 1889
Historical College Name: Lebanon Valley College
Current College Name: Lebanon Valley College
Location: Annville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Robert Lindley Long
Principal
1888 to 1890
Historical College Name: Territorial Normal School/Arizona Territorial Normal School
Current College Name: Arizona State University
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Notes: Institution became Arizona Territorial Normal School in 1889
Francis Landey Patton
President
1888 to 1902
Historical College Name: College of New Jersey/Princeton University
Current College Name: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Notes: Institution became Princeton University in 1896
William M. Brown
President
1888 to 1894
Historical College Name: Tillotson College
Current College Name: Huston-Tillotson University
Location: Austin, Texas
Notes:
Harrison Edwin Webster
President
1888 to 1894
Historical College Name: Union College
Current College Name: Union College
Location: Schenectady, New York
Notes:
Henry E. Alvord
President
1888 to 1892
Historical College Name: Maryland Agricultural College
Current College Name: University of Maryland
Location: College Park, Maryland
Notes:
Horace Bumstead
President
1888 to 1907
Historical College Name: Atlanta University
Current College Name: Clark Atlanta University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
William H. Wilder
President
1888 to 1898
Historical College Name: Illinois Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Illinois Wesleyan University
Location: Bloomington, Illinois
Notes:
Ely V. Zollars
President
1888 to 1902
Historical College Name: Hiram College
Current College Name: Hiram College
Location: Hiram, Ohio
Notes:
Isaac Stiles Hopkins
President
1888 to 1896
Historical College Name: Georgia School of Technology
Current College Name: Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Peter Cassidy S.J.
President
1888 to 1891
Historical College Name: St. Peter’s College
Current College Name: St. Peter’s University
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
Notes:
George Whitaker
President
1888 to 1889
Historical College Name: Wiley University
Current College Name: Wiley College
Location: Marshall, Texas
Notes:
Benjamin Franklin Riley
President
1888 to 1893
Historical College Name: Howard College
Current College Name: Samford University
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Notes:
Brigadier General Charles Hyatt
President
1888 to 1930
Historical College Name: Pennsylvania Military Academy/Pennsylvania Military College
Current College Name: Widener University
Location: Chester, Pennsylvania
Notes: Institution became Pennsylvania Military College in 1892
Tamerlane Pliny Marsh
President
1888 to 1898
Historical College Name: Mount Union College
Current College Name: University of Mount Union
Location: Alliance, Ohio
Notes:
J. Havens Richards S.J.
President
1888 to 1898
Historical College Name: Georgetown University
Current College Name: Georgetown University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Robert J. Fulton S.J.
President
1888 to 1891
Historical College Name: Boston College
Current College Name: Boston College
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Notes:
Charles B. Sumner
Financial agent with supervisory authority
1888 to 1890
Historical College Name: Pomona College
Current College Name: Pomona College
Location: Claremont, California
Notes:
Charles Francis Himes
President, acting
1888 to 1889
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Charles H. Cocke
President
1888 to 1890
Historical College Name: Industrial Institute and College
Current College Name: Mississippi University for Women
Location: Columbus, Mississippi
Notes:
John H. Peck
President
1888 to 1901
Historical College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Current College Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location: Troy, New York
Notes:
Alpheus Baker Hervey
President
1888 to 1894
Historical College Name: St. Lawrence University
Current College Name: St. Lawrence University
Location: Canton, New York
Notes:
John J. Wagner
President
1888 to 1901
Historical College Name: Centenary Biblical Institute/Morgan College
Current College Name: Morgan State University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes: Institution became Morgan College in 1890
Charles F. Creighton
President
1888 to 1893
Historical College Name: Nebraska Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Nebraska Wesleyan University
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
Notes:
John H. Clewell
President
1888 to 1909
Historical College Name: Salem Female Academy and College
Current College Name: Salem Academy and College
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Notes:
Warren Akin Candler
President
1888 to 1898
Historical College Name: Emory College
Current College Name: Emory University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes:
Francis T. Ingalls
President
1888 to 1892
Historical College Name: Drury College
Current College Name: Drury University
Location: Springfield, Missouri
Notes:
William F. Slocum
President
1888 to 1917
Historical College Name: Colorado College
Current College Name: Colorado College
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Notes:
Wilbur G. Williams
President
1888 to 1889
Historical College Name: Allegheny College
Current College Name: Allegheny College
Location: Meadville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Hiram Hadley
President
1888 to 1894
Historical College Name: Las Cruces College/New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Current College Name: New Mexico State University
Location: Las Cruces, New Mexico
Notes: Institution became New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1889
Reverend William Marshall
President
1888 to 1897
Historical College Name: Seton Hall College
Current College Name: Seton Hall University
Location: South Orange, New Jersey
Notes:
George H. Williams
Principal
1888 to 1895
Historical College Name: State Colored Normal School
Current College Name: Fayetteville State university
Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina
Notes:
Ethelbert Dudley Warfield
President
1888 to 1891
Historical College Name: Miami University
Current College Name: Miami University
Location: Oxford, Ohio
Notes:
H. B. Brumbaugh
President
1888 to 1893
Historical College Name: Brethren Normal School
Current College Name: Juniata College
Location: Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Notes:
George G. Groff
President, interim
1888 to 1889
Historical College Name: Bucknell University
Current College Name: Bucknell University
Location: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Lewis Porter Bush
President, acting
1888 to 1888
Historical College Name: Delaware College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes: Bush was a trustee
William Luther Moore
Principal
1888 to 1889
Historical College Name: Croatan Normal School
Current College Name: University of North Carolina Pembroke
Location: Pembroke, North Carolina
Notes:
Thomas C. Buchanan
Principal
1888 to 1889
Historical College Name: Cullowhee Academy
Current College Name: Western Carolina University
Location: Cullowhee, North Carolina
Notes:
Frank S. Capen
Principal
1888 to 1899
Historical College Name: New Paltz Normal
Current College Name: State University of New York at New Paltz
Location: New Paltz, New York
Notes:
Lyon G. Tyler
President
1888 to 1919
Historical College Name: College of William and Mary
Current College Name: College of William and Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes:
William C. Young
President
1888 to 1896
Historical College Name: Centre College
Current College Name: Centre College
Location: Danville, Kentucky
Notes:
Charles Edwin Bessey
President, acting
1888 to 1891
Historical College Name: University of Nebraska
Current College Name: University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
Notes: Bessey also served as acting president 1899-1900
Reverend John Scully S.J.
President
1888 to 1891
Historical College Name: St. John’s College
Current College Name: Fordham University
Location: Bronx, New York
Notes:
Henry Knappmeyer S.J.
President
1888 to 1893
Historical College Name: St. Ignatius College
Current College Name: John Carroll University
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Notes:
Albert Newton Raub
President
1888 to 1896
Historical College Name: Delaware College
Current College Name: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Notes:
John Pinasco S.J.
President
1888 to 1893
Historical College Name: Santa Clara College
Current College Name: Santa Clara University
Location: Santa Clara, California
Notes:
Holmes Dysinger
President
1888 to 1895
Historical College Name: Carthage College (IL)
Current College Name: Carthage College
Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Notes:
G. Stanley Hall
President
1888 to 1920
Historical College Name: Clark University
Current College Name: Clark University
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
W. L.C. Hunnicutt
President
1888 to 1894
Historical College Name: Centenary College of Louisiana
Current College Name: Centenary College
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Notes:
Reverend Seth Axtell
President
1888 to 1890
Historical College Name: Central University of Iowa
Current College Name: Central College
Location: Pella, Iowa
Notes:
Reverend John Bunyan Shearer
President
1888 to 1901
Historical College Name: Davidson College
Current College Name: Davidson College
Location: Davidson, North Carolina
Notes:
William M. Thornton
Chairman of the Faculty
1888 to 1896
Historical College Name: University of Virginia
Current College Name: University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Notes:
Louis Lowry McInnis
Chairman of the Faculty
1888 to 1890
Historical College Name: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Current College Name: Texas A&M University
Location: College Station, Texas
Notes:
Z. X. Snyder
Principal
1888 to 1891
Historical College Name: Indiana Normal School
Current College Name: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Location: Indiana, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend Ulric Heinzler S.J.
President
1888 to 1891
Historical College Name: Canisius College
Current College Name: Canisius College
Location: Buffalo, New York
Notes:
Edward Timothy Pierce
Principal
1889 to 1893
Historical College Name: Chico Normal School
Current College Name: California State University, Chico
Location: Chico, California
Notes:
James Whitford Bashford
President
1889 to 1904
Historical College Name: Ohio Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Ohio Wesleyan University
Location: Delaware, Ohio
Notes:
John Q. Emery
President
1889 to 1893
Historical College Name: State Normal School
Current College Name: University of Wisconsin – River Falls
Location: River Falls, Wisconsin
Notes: River Falls
Henry Harbaugh Apple
President
1889 to 1909
Historical College Name: Franklin and Marshall College
Current College Name: Franklin and Marshall College
Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Cyrus J. Kephart
President
1889 to 1890
Historical College Name: Lebanon Valley College
Current College Name: Lebanon Valley College
Location: Annville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
William Ellison Boggs
Chancellor
1889 to 1898
Historical College Name: University of Georgia
Current College Name: University of Georgia
Location: Athens, Georgia
Notes:
Henry Martyn Tenney
President
1889 to 1891
Historical College Name: Oberlin College
Current College Name: Oberlin College
Location: Oberlin, Ohio
Notes:
Oscar Clute
President
1889 to 1893
Historical College Name: State Agricultural College
Current College Name: Michigan State University
Location: East Lansing, Michigan
Notes:
Mary A. Brigham
President Elect
1889 to 1889
Historical College Name: Mount Holyoke Seminary and College
Current College Name: Mount Holyoke College
Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts
Notes: Brigham died in a railway accident before her term began
Reverend Michael O’Kane S.J.
President
1889 to 1893
Historical College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Current College Name: College of the Holy Cross
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Notes:
Ella Weed
Generally recognized as the head of “guiding spirit”
1889 to 1894
Historical College Name: Barnard College
Current College Name: Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Brigadier General John Moulder Wilson
Superintendent
1889 to 1893
Historical College Name: United States Military Academy
Current College Name: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Notes:
William Stokes Wyman
President, acting
1889 to 1890
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
Louisa F. Cowles
President, acting
1889 to 1890
Historical College Name: Mount Holyoke Seminary and College
Current College Name: Mount Holyoke College
Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts
Notes:
John F. Spence
President
1889 to 1893
Historical College Name: U.S. Grant University (Chattanooga campus)
Current College Name: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee
Notes: Previously Chattanooga University, institution merged with U.S. Grant University in Athens (previously East Tennessee Wesleyan University). University of Tennessee Chattanooga and Tennessee Wesleyan University possess a shared history between 1889 and the 1902s.
Arthur Boothby Morrill
Principal
1889 to 1893
Historical College Name: Willimantic State Normal School
Current College Name: Eastern Connecticut State University
Location: Willimantic, Connecticut
Notes:
P. A. Pool
President
1889 to 1893
Historical College Name: Wiley University
Current College Name: Wiley College
Location: Marshall, Texas
Notes:
William S. Long
President
1889 to 1894
Historical College Name: Elon College
Current College Name: Elon University
Location: Elon, North Carolina
Notes:
Reverend Joseph Weckesser
President
1889 to 1896
Historical College Name: St. Mary’s Institute (OH)
Current College Name: University of Dayton
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Notes:
R. W. Jones
President
1889 to 1889
Historical College Name: Emory and Henry College
Current College Name: Emory and Henry College
Location: Emory, Virginia
Notes:
Nicholas Murray Butler
President
1889 to 1891
Historical College Name: New York School for the Training of Teachers
Current College Name: Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Notes:
Charles Childs
Principal
1889 to 1896
Historical College Name: San Jose State Normal School
Current College Name: San Jose State University
Location: San Jose, California
Notes:
James Atkins
President
1889 to 1893
Historical College Name: Emory and Henry College
Current College Name: Emory and Henry College
Location: Emory, Virginia
Notes:
George Edward Reed
President
1889 to 1911
Historical College Name: Dickinson College
Current College Name: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Albert N. Husted
Principal
1889 to 1889
Historical College Name: New York State Normal School
Current College Name: University at Albany, SUNY
Location: Albany, New York
Notes:
Stephen Jones
President
1889 to 1894
Historical College Name: University of Nevada
Current College Name: University of Nevada, Reno
Location: Reno, Nevada
Notes:
Archibald McLean
President
1889 to 1891
Historical College Name: Bethany College
Current College Name: Bethany College
Location: Bethany, West Virginia
Notes:
Charles W. Reid
Principal
1889 to 1903
Historical College Name: Washington College (Maryland)
Current College Name: Washington College
Location: Chestertown, Maryland
Notes:
Samuel Ward Boardman
President
1889 to 1901
Historical College Name: Maryville College
Current College Name: Maryville College
Location: Maryville, Tennessee
Notes:
Alexander Holladay
President
1889 to 1899
Historical College Name: North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Current College Name: North Carolina State University
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Notes:
William J. Milne
President
1889 to 1914
Historical College Name: New York State Normal School/New York State Normal College
Current College Name: University at Albany, SUNY
Location: Albany, New York
Notes: Institution became New York State Normal College in 1890
Reverend Joseph Grimmelsman S.J.
President
1889 to 1891
Historical College Name: Marquette College
Current College Name: Marquette University
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Notes:
Charles Wesley Gallagher
President
1889 to 1893
Historical College Name: Lawrence University
Current College Name: Lawrence University
Location: Appleton, Wisconsin
Notes:
Bradford Pau Raymond
President
1889 to 1908
Historical College Name: Wesleyan University
Current College Name: Wesleyan University
Location: Middletown, Connecticut
Notes:
Abbot Leo I. Haid O.S.B.
President
1889 to 1894
Historical College Name: Saint Leo Military College
Current College Name: St. Leo University
Location: St. Leo, Florida
Notes:
Gustavus Alonzo Nunnally
President
1889 to 1893
Historical College Name: Mercer University
Current College Name: Mercer University
Location: Macon, Georgia
Notes:
Louis F. Moench
Principal
1889 to 1892
Historical College Name: Weber Stake Academy
Current College Name: Weber State University
Location: Ogden, Utah
Notes:
James M. Green
Principal
1889 to 1917
Historical College Name: New Jersey State Normal School/New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton
Current College Name: The College of New Jersey
Location: Ewing, New Jersey
Notes: Institution became New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton in 1908
David Jayne Hill
President
1889 to 1896
Historical College Name: University of Rochester
Current College Name: University of Rochester
Location: Rochester, New York
Notes:
Lunsford Dickens
President
1889 to 1890
Historical College Name: Trinity University
Current College Name: Trinity University
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Notes:
John P.D. John
President
1889 to 1895
Historical College Name: DePauw University
Current College Name: DePauw University
Location: Greencastle, Indiana
Notes:
Elisha Benjamin Andrews
President
1889 to 1898
Historical College Name: Brown University
Current College Name: Brown University
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Notes:
David H. Wheeler
President
1889 to 1893
Historical College Name: Allegheny College
Current College Name: Allegheny College
Location: Meadville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
George Francis Duck
Dean
1889 to 1890
Historical College Name: South Dakota School of Mines
Current College Name: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Location: Rapid City, South Dakota
Notes: Institution became South Dakota School of Mines in 1889
Thomas S. Fitzgerald S.J.
President
1889 to 1891
Historical College Name: Creighton University
Current College Name: Creighton University
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Notes:
Henry Turner Eddy
Dean
1889 to 1890
Historical College Name: University of Cincinnati
Current College Name: University of Cincinnati
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Notes:
Herman J. Kiekhoefer
President
1889 to 1910
Historical College Name: North-Western College
Current College Name: North Central College
Location: Naperville, Illinois
Notes:
John Howard Harris
President
1889 to 1919
Historical College Name: Bucknell University
Current College Name: Bucknell University
Location: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Ezra Baulder
Principal
1889 to 1890
Historical College Name: Croatan Normal School
Current College Name: University of North Carolina Pembroke
Location: Pembroke, North Carolina
Notes:
Robert L. Madison
Principal/President
1889 to 1912
Historical College Name: Cullowhee Academy/Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School
Current College Name: Western Carolina University
Location: Cullowhee, North Carolina
Notes: Institution became Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School in 1905; Madison’s title changed to president during term
Charles N. Grandison
President
1889 to 1892
Historical College Name: Bennett College
Current College Name: Bennett College
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
Notes:
Reverend Edward L. Gleeson S.J.
President
1889 to 1890
Historical College Name: St. Louis University
Current College Name: St. Louis University
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Notes:
Wilson Phraner
President
1889 to 1889
Historical College Name: Elmira Female College
Current College Name: Elmira College
Location: Elmira, New York
Notes:
William Hyde Appleton
President
1889 to 1891
Historical College Name: Swarthmore College
Current College Name: Swarthmore College
Location: Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Albion Woodbury Small
President
1889 to 1892
Historical College Name: Colby University
Current College Name: Colby College
Location: Waterville, Maine
Notes:
Charles Van Norden
President
1889 to 1893
Historical College Name: Elmira Female College/Elmira College
Current College Name: Elmira College
Location: Elmira, New York
Notes: Institution became Elmira College in 1890
A.G. Jepson
President, acting
1889 to 1890
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
George Mifflin Dallas Eckels
Principal
1889 to 1907
Historical College Name: Cumberland Valley State Normal School
Current College Name: Shippensburg University
Location: Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
Reverend Amos T. Fox
President
1890 to 1890
Historical College Name: Whitworth University
Current College Name: Whitworth University
Location: Spokane, Washington
Notes:
Reverend David James Burrell
President
1890 to 1891
Historical College Name: Macalester College
Current College Name: Macalester College
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Notes:
William Stuart Lorraine Bringhurst
President, acting
1890 to 1891
Historical College Name: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Current College Name: Texas A&M University
Location: College Station, Texas
Notes:
Thomas H. Herdman
President, acting
1890 to 1893
Historical College Name: McKendree College
Current College Name: McKendree University
Location: Lebanon, Illinois
Notes:
Lyman Stevens
President, Board of Trustees
1890 to 1893
Historical College Name: New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts
Current College Name: University of New Hampshire
Location: Durham, New Hampshire
Notes: New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts existed as a division of Dartmouth College at this time
Scott Shipp
Superintendent
1890 to 1907
Historical College Name: Virginia Military Institute
Current College Name: Virginia Military Institute
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Notes:
Reverend Calvin W. Stewart
President
1890 to 1898
Historical College Name: Whitworth University
Current College Name: Whitworth University
Location: Spokane, Washington
Notes:
Jeremiah Rankin
President
1890 to 1903
Historical College Name: Howard University
Current College Name: Howard University
Location: Washington DC, District of Columbia
Notes:
Dayton A. Reed
Principal
1890 to 1892
Historical College Name: Arizona Territorial Normal School
Current College Name: Arizona State University
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Notes:
Horace E. Stockbridge
President
1890 to 1893
Historical College Name: North Dakota Agricultural College
Current College Name: North Dakota State University
Location: Fargo, North Dakota
Notes:
Judson P. Welsh
Principal
1890 to 1906
Historical College Name: Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School
Current College Name: Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Location: Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Notes:
E. Benjamin Bierman
President
1890 to 1897
Historical College Name: Lebanon Valley College
Current College Name: Lebanon Valley College
Location: Annville, Pennsylvania
Notes:
E. Barrett Prettyman
Principal
1890 to 1905
Historical College Name: Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University)
Current College Name: Towson University
Location: Towson, Maryland
Notes:
Howard B. Grose
President
1890 to 1891
Historical College Name: University of South Dakota
Current College Name: University of South Dakota
Location: Vermillion, South Dakota
Notes:
William Pollock Johnston
President
1890 to 1907
Historical College Name: Geneva College
Current College Name: Geneva College
Location: Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Notes:
John Franklin Goucher
President
1890 to 1908
Historical College Name: Woman’s College of Baltimore
Current College Name: Goucher College
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Notes: Institution became Woman’s College of Baltimore in 1890
John Williston Cook
President
1890 to 1899
Historical College Name: Illinois State Normal University
Current College Name: Illinois State University
Location: Normal, Illinois
Notes:
Charles F. Thwing
President
1890 to 1921
Historical College Name: Western Reserve University
Current College Name: Case Western Reserve University
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Notes:
Reverend Dr. George Harvey Ball
President
1890 to 1904
Historical College Name: Keuka College
Current College Name: Keuka College
Location: Keuka Park, New York
Notes:
Reverend Christopher A. McEvoy O.S.A.
President
1890 to 1894
Historical College Name: Villanova College
Current College Name: Villanova University
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Notes:
H. Aubrey Strode
President
1890 to 1893
Historical College Name: Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina
Current College Name: Clemson University
Location: Clemson, South Carolina
Notes:
Richard Channing Jones
President
1890 to 1897
Historical College Name: University of Alabama
Current College Name: University of Alabama
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Notes:
Susan Tolman Mills
President
1890 to 1909
Historical College Name: Mills College
Current College Name: Mills College
Location: Oakland, California
Notes:
George Sale
President
1890 to 1906
Historical College Name: Augusta Baptist Seminary/Atlanta Baptist College
Current College Name: Morehouse College
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Notes: Institution became Atlanta Baptist College in 1897
Cyrus G. Baldwin
President
1890 to 1897
Historical College Name: Pomona College
Current College Name: Pomona College
Location: Claremont, California
Notes:
Mary J.S. Callaway
President, acting
1890 to 1890
Historical College Name: Industrial Institute and College
Current College Name: Mississippi University for Women
Location: Columbus, Mississippi
Notes:
William Belton Murrah
President
1890 to 1910
Historical College Name: Millsaps College
Current College Name: Millsaps College
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Notes:
Jeremiah W. Sanborn
President
1890 to 1894
Historical College Name: Agricultural College of Utah
Current College Name: Utah State University
Location: Logan, Utah
Notes: