Edward Webb records, 1873-1894.

Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943

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Agricultural scientist, teacher, humanitarian, artist, and Iowa State alumnus (1894, 1896). George Washington Carver was born ca. 1864, the son of slaves on the Moses Carver plantation near Diamond Grove, Missouri. He lost his father in infancy, and at the age of 6 months was stolen along with his mother by raiders, but was later found and traded back to his owner for a $300 race horse. He enrolled in Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa in 1890 studying music and art. Etta Budd, his art instructor ...

Webb, Edward, 1819-1898

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Hood, Solomon Porter, 1853-1943

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Hammer, J. Garland

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Rankin, Arthur T.

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Rendall, Isaac Norton, 1825-

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Yates and Porterfield

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White, Wm. P. (William Prescott), 1840-1929

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Lincoln University, Pa.

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Ashmun Institute was founded in 1854 by John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian minister, with the purpose of preparing freedmen to christianize Africa; named after Jehudi Ashmun, the first governor of Liberia, it was the first college established in the U.S. to have as its original purpose the higher education of youth of African descent; interracial and international; renamed Lincoln University in 1866, becoming the first educational institution named for the assassinated president; first recorded ...

Dodge, William E. (William Earl), 1805-1883

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Mossell, Nathan Francis, 1856-1946

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Nathan Francis Mossell was born in Hamilton, Canada, on July 27, 1856. His parents eventually settled in Lockport, New York circa 1865, where Nathan spent the majority of his childhood. In 1873, Mossell entered Lincoln University’s preparatory program, receiving a Bachelors degree in 1879. While at Lincoln, he met and courted his future wife, Gertrude Hicks Bustill (1855-1948) and after graduation, decided to pursue a medical education in Philadelphia, a city that served as the national center o...

Dickey, J. M. 1806-1878

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