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Zephaniah Swift Moore 1821-1823
Born November 20, 1770. Graduated from Dartmouth College in 1793. Professor of Languages and President of Williams College (1811-21). Founded Amherst College in 1821. Died June 29, 1823.
Heman Humphrey 1823-1845
Born March 16, 1779 in Connecticut. Graduated from Yale College in 1805. Ordained in 1808. Pastor in Fairfield, CT and Pittsfield, MA (1807-23). Married Sophia Porter in 1808. Died April 3, 1861.
Heman Humphrey Sermons Finding Aid
Edward Hitchcock 1845-1854
Born May 24, 1793 in Deerfield, MA. Ordained pastor of Congregational Church in Conway, MA (1821-25). First Professor of Chemistry and Natural History at Amherst College (1825-45). Died February 27, 1864.
Edward Hitchcock Papers Finding Aid
William A. Stearns 1854-1876
Born in 1805. Graduated from Harvard College (1827). Attended Andover Theological Seminary and ordained in 1831. Minister of First Evangelical Congregational Church in Cambridgeport, MA (1831-54). Died June 8, 1876.
William A. Stearns Papers Finding Aid
Julius H. Seelye (AC 1849) 1876-90
Born September 14, 1824. Attended Auburn Theological Seminary and studied in Halle, Germany. Pastor of First Dutch Reformed Church (1853-58). Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Amherst College (1859-90). Died May 12, 1895.
Julius H. Seelye Papers Finding Aid
Merrill E. Gates 1890-1899
Born April 6, 1848 in Warsaw W. NY. Graduated from University of Rochester (1870). Principal of Albany Academy. President of Rutgers College in NJ (1882-90). Died August 11, 1922.
George Harris 1899-1912
Born April 1, 1844 in ME. Attended Bangor (1866-67) and Andover (1867-69) Theological Seminaries. Pastor of congregational churches in ME and RI (1869-83). Abbot Professor of Theology at Andover Theological Seminary (1883-99). Died March 1, 1922.
Alexander Meiklejohn 1912-1923
Born February 3, 1872 in England. BA (1893) and MA (1895) from Brown University. PhD in Philosophy from Cornell University (1897). Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Brown (1901-12). Died December 17, 1964.
Alexander Meiklejohn Papers Finding Aid
George D. Olds 1923-1927
Born October 14, 1853. Graduated from University of Rochester (1873). Studied mathematics in Heidelberg, Germany. Professor of Mathematics at Rochester (1884-91) and Amherst College (1891-1927). Dean of the College (1909-22). Died May 10, 1931.
George D. Olds Papers Finding Aid
Arthur S. Pease 1927-1932
Born September 22, 1881. BA (1902), MA (1903) and PhD (1905) from Harvard University. Taught at Harvard until 1909, University of Illinois until 1924, and Amherst College until 1927. Returned to Harvard after presidency (1932-50). Died January 7, 1964.
Arthur S. Pease Letters Finding Aid
Stanley King (AC 1903) 1932-1946
Born May 11, 1883. MA (1906) from Harvard Law School. Director of W. H. McElwain Shoe Co. (1906-17) and Eastern Manager of International Shoe Co. (1922-27). Member of Council of National Defense during WWI. Died April 28, 1951.
Stanley King Papers Finding Aid
Charles W. Cole (AC 1927) 1946-1960
Born February 8, 1906. MA (1928) and PhD (1931) from Columbia University. Ambassador of U.S. State Department till 1964. Professor of Economics at Amherst College (1935-40). Professor of History at Columbia (1940-46). Died February 20, 1978.
Charles W. Cole Papers Finding Aid
Calvin Plimpton (AC 1939) 1960-1971
Born October 7, 1918. MD from Harvard Medical School (1943), MS from Harvard (1947), and PhD from Columbia (1952). Associate of Medicine at Columbia (1951-57). Professor of Medicine at the American University of Beirut (1957-59). Died January 30, 2007.
Calvin Plimpton Speeches Finding Aid
John W. Ward 1971-1979
Born in 1922. Served in the U.S. Marines. BA from Harvard University (1947). MA from University of Minnesota. Professor of English and History at Princeton University (1952-63). Professor of History Amherst College (1964-71). Died August 3, 1985.
John W. Ward Papers Finding Aid
Julian H. Gibbs (AC 1947) 1979-1983
Born June 24, 1924. MA (1949) and PhD (1950) from Princeton University. Professor at Brown University. Research Associate and supervisor at General Electric Company (1952-55) and American Viscose Corporation (1955-60). Died February 20, 1983.
Julian H. Gibbs Papers Finding Aid
Peter Pouncey 1984-1994
Born October 1, 1937 in China. BA from Heythrop College (1960). BA (1964) and MA (1967) from Oxford University. PhD from Columbia University (1969). Professor of Classics at Columbia (1967-72, 1976-84) and Dean of Columbia College 1972-76).
Tom Gerety 1994-2003
Born in 1947. BA (1969), MA (1974), and PhD (1976) from Yale University. Taught at Yale, Illinois Tech, University of Pittsburgh and University of Cincinnati before 1989. President and Professor at Trinity College (1989-94) and at Amherst College (1994-2003).
Tom Gerety Speeches Archive
Anthony Marx 2003-2011
Born February 28, 1959. BA from Yale College (1981). MPA (1986) Woodrow Wilson School. MA (1987) and PhD (1990) from Princeton. Assistant (1990-96), Associate (1996-2002), and Professor (2002-04) at Columbia University and Amherst College (2003-11).
Anthony Marx Speeches Archive
Carolyn "Biddy" Martin 2011-2022
Born in 1951. BA from College of William & Mary (1973). MA from Middlebury College and PhD from University of Wisconsin (1985). Assistant Professor of German and Women’s Studies at Cornell University (1991-97). Chancellor of UWM (2008-11).
Carolyn "Biddy" Martin Speeches ArchiveResources
Amherst College Alumni Biographical Files. "Photographs: Gibbs, Julian H., AC 1946. 5 of 16."
---. "Photographs: Plimpton, Calvin H., 1939."
---. "Photographs: Pouncey, Peter R."
---. "Photographs: Seelye, Julius H., 1849, 4 of 4."
---. "Photos: Harris, George. 1866."
---. "Photos: Pres. Charles Cole, 1927. 2 of 10."
Amherst College Biographical Record 1973, Sesquicentennial Edition. Amherst, MA, 1973. p. 60, 117, 344, 601, 717, 795.
Amherst College Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/amherstcollege/.
Amherst College Non-Alumni Biographical Files. "Gates, Merrill Edwards."
---. "Gates, Merrill E. Newsclippings 1880s, 1890s, 1920s." Page from The Amherst Student and pages from ‘92 Olios.
---. "General Biographical: Hitchcock, Edward 1793-1864." President Edward Hitchcock by Frederick Tuckerman, reprinted from the Amherst Graduates Quarterly for Nov. 1920.
---. "General Biographical: Pouncey, Peter R."
---. "General Bio: Marx, Anthony W."
---. "General: Martin, Biddy."
---. "Humphrey, Heman: General." Dictionary of American Biography, Tuckerman’s Amherst Academy, [Buess’] History of Amherst.
---. "Meiklejohn. General Biographical Information, 2 of 21."
---. "Meiklejohn. Photos + Images, 21 of 21."
---. "Moore, Z. S.."
---. "News Articles. General, Tom Gerety."
---. "Newsclippings. Olds, George D."
---. "Obituaries: Ward, John William. Folder 12 of 13."
---. "Pease, Arthur S."
---. "Photographs: Hitchcock, Pres. Edward 1793-1864."
---. "Photographs: Marx, Anthony W."
---. "Photographs: Pease, Arthur Stanley."
---. "Photographs: Stearns, W. A."
---. "Photographs: Tom Gerety."
---. "Photographs: Ward, John William. Folder 2 of 13."
---. "Photos II: Olds, George D."
---. "Portraits: Humphrey, H."
---. "Presidents: Moore, Zephaniah Swift, printed materials - bio sketches, various or n.d." William Seymour Tyler’s History of Amherst College (1821-1891).
---. "Stearns, W. Augustus. #87-132." Discourse Commemorative of the late President Stearns. Springfield MA. Clark W. Bryan & Company, Printers. 1877.
Stanley King Papers. "Images, Stanley King, Stanley King Sitting, Mounted Photo." Box 23, Folder 4.