Author: Dale Devries
Bernard S. Adams
Ninth president 1966-1985 Bernard Schroder Adams was born July 20, 1928. He was a graduate of Princeton University, Yale University and the University of Pittsburgh, and he taught English literature and had a wide range of administrative responsibilities at Princeton, Pittsburgh and Oberlin College. At Ripon, he continued the expansion of the physical plant and […]
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Fred O. Pinkham
Eighth president 1955-1965 A graduate of Kalamazoo College and Stanford University, Pinkham previously was assistant to the president of George Washington University and executive director of the National Commission on Accrediting. He also was a teacher and lecturer. He helped expand the student body, faculty, administration and physical plant, and administrative procedures were modernized. His […]
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Clark G. Kuebler
Seventh president 1943-1954 Clark G. Kuebler was a scholar, lecturer and teacher of classics. Although he served as president of the Episcopal Church’s National Council of Churchmen for several years, he was Ripon’s first president without a ministerial background. He helped establish a national reputation for the College by conducting lecture tours across the United […]
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Henry Coe Culbertson
Sixth president 1918-1920 He had been a student of law and divinity and president of Emporia College in Kansas before serving briefly as Ripon’s president between the two terms of Dr. Silas Evans. His skill in public speaking made a strikingly favorable impression, but health and personal problems often interfered with his duties. He returned […]
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Silas Evans
Fifth president 1910-1917 and 1921-1943 Silas Evans, a graduate of the Ripon College Class of 1898, Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary, retired as teacher of Greek and Hebrew at the University of Wisconsin to accept the presidency of his alma mater in 1911. He led Ripon College for the next 32 years — except […]
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Rufus Cushman Flagg
Third president 1892-1901 He was a widely respected biblical scholar and Congregational minister with a flair for financial management. Within one year of assuming office, he raised $50,000 in pledges, thereby qualifying the College for an $80,000 gift. He also launched a program for modernization by adding men like O.H. Ingram and Albert G. Farr […]
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Edward H. Merrell
Second president 1876-1891 He was a graduate of Oberlin College and Oberlin Theological Seminary and appointed principal of the preparatory department and professor of languages in 1862, then president in 1876. During his 16-year tenure as president, a new chemistry laboratory made it possible to discard the obsolete method of exclusive textbook-lecture instruction; East Hall […]
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Edwin Lockwood
Edwin Lockwood served on the first Board of Directors for the Lyceum of Ripon. When the directors first pledged funding to support the endeavor, Lockwood was listed as having pledged $10, a respectable sum. After the charter for the school with the name of Brockway College was approved, Lockwood also was named to the first […]
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Almon Osborn
Founder Almon Osborn was born June 24, 1813, in Rival, Hancock County, Maine. He moved west with his family with several stops, eventually settling in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, in 1835. He came to Metomen township near Ripon in June 1845 where he was a farmer and the first supervisor of the town of Metomen. His […]
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Ezra Lathrop “E.L.” Northrup
Founder Ezra Lathrop Northrup was born March 28, 1818, in Sherburne, Chenango County, New York. He arrived in Ripon in November 1849. He was given a plot of land on the east side of the public square in Ripon if he would open a store there selling general merchandise. He had done so within six […]
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Asa Kinney
Founder Asa Kinney born May 21, 1810, in Homer, New York. He moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory, in 1836 and had a farm in Oak Creek. He served in the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention in 1846 and the last Wisconsin Territorial Legislature in 1847-1848, and represented southern Milwaukee County in the Wisconsin State Senate during […]
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Warren Chase
Founder Warren Chase was a pioneer, spiritualist, social reformer and politician. He was born Jan. 5, 1813, in Pittsfield, New Hampshire. In Southport (now Kenosha), Wisconsin, he became involved with spiritualism and the theories of the French social philosopher Charles Fourier. In 1844, he led a small party of pioneers to 800 acres of land […]
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Rafael Francisco Salas’ artwork to be showcased in Trout Museum of Art in Appleton with opening reception Jan. 24
Ripon College is pleased to share information about Everyday Heaven, a transhistorical exhibition exploring rural Wisconsin through the work of two artists: Ripon College’s Rafael Francisco Salas (b. 1973) and Charles Van Schaick (1852–1946). Spanning more than a century, the exhibition brings together historical and contemporary perspectives on rural life in Wisconsin. Charles Van Schaick […]
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Student-curated community art on exhibit at Ripon College, Jan. 20-Feb.13
An exhibit of art created by local artists will be on display in the Caestecker Art Gallery of Ripon College’s C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts from Tuesday, Jan. 20 through Friday, Feb. 13. A reception and discussion will be held Friday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. The exhibit, curated by four Ripon College students, […]
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Susan Ann Wright Salisbury
Class of 1867: First graduating class Susan Ann Wright Salisbury was one of the four members of the first graduation class of 1867 at Ripon College. She was born Jan. 10, 1848, in Metomen, Wisconsin, completed her preparation for college in the classes preceding regular college work at Ripon, then studied in the scientific course […]
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Mary Frances Spencer Thayer
Class of 1867: First graduating class Mary Frances Spencer was one of the four members of the first graduation class of 1867 at Ripon College. She was born Aug. 28, 1842, in Fairfield, Ohio, and was listed as being from Poy Sippi, Wisconsin. She spent eight years at Ripon, as a pupil and teacher, and […]
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Harriet Hemans Brown
Class of 1867: First graduating class Harriet Hemans Brown was one of the four members of the first graduation class of 1867 at Ripon College. She was born Oct. 21, 1840, in South Shaftsbury, Vermont, and came to Wisconsin in 1846, Coming from her home in Lamartine, Wisconsin, she studied in the scientific course at […]
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Luthera Harriet Adams
Class of 1867: First graduating class Luthera Harriet Adams was one of the four members of the first graduation class of 1867 at Ripon College. She also received an advanced degree in 1870. She was born July 31, 1841, and came from Omro, Wisconsin. At Ripon, she studied in the classical course. It took seven […]
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John Scott Horner
Founder John Scott Horner, a lawyer, politician and land speculator, was considered “the first citizen of the village,” according to “Ripon College a History.” He was born Dec. 5, 1802, in Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Washington (now Washington and Jefferson) College in western Pennsylvania in 1819 and became an attorney. […]
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William S. Brockway
Founder William Stevens Brockway was born in 1825. In Ripon, he was a young merchant and a trustee of the First Congregational Church of Ceresco. To raise money to continue construction of the College, the Lyceum of Ripon directors issued stock for purchase. On Jan. 1, 1851, they met and needed to decide on a […]
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Jehdeiah Bowen
Connections made in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, brought an early settler and Ripon College founder to Ripon. Jehdeiah Bowen had clerked in a store in eastern Pennsylvania owned by Capt. David P. Mapes and in 1850 followed Mapes west to Ripon and became one of the community’s earliest settlers when there were but four buildings in town. […]
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