Jasper Adams served as chaplain and professor of geography, history, and ethics at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from 1838 to 1840, and then had charge of a seminary in Pendleton, S. C. for a brief time before his death on October 25, 1841.Adams, Jasper
Ambassadors and ministers to foreign countries have included Brown men since the early nineteenth century, among them: Jonathan Russell1791, ambassador to Sweden and Norway; Henry Wheaton1802, minister to Prussia; Christopher Robinson 1825, minister to Peru; George Van Ness Lothrop 1838, minister to Russia; Lewis Richmond 1842, minister to Portugal; Samuel Sullivan Cox 1846, minister to Turkey; James Burrill Angell1849, minister to China and Turkey; John Hay1858, ambassador to Great Britain; John Meredith Read 1858, minister to Greece; Frederick M. Sackett 1890, ambassador to Germany; Leland Howard Littlefield 1892, ambassador to Great Britain; Noble B. Judah ’04, ambassador to Cuba; Ely E. Palmer ’08, ambassador to Afghanistan; Roy Tasco Davis ’10, minister to Guatemala and Costa Rica, and Panama; Warren Randolph Burgess ’12, ambassador to NATO; Dana Gardner Munro ’12, minister to Haiti; Willard L. Beaulac ’20, ambassador to Paraguay, Columbia, Cuba, Chile, and Argentina; John J. Muccio ’21, ambassador to Korea, Iceland, and Guatemala; Will Mercer Cook A.M.’31, ambassador to Niger and Senegal; Clinton E. Knox A.M.’31, ambassador to Dahomey; Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37, ambassador to the U.S.S.R.; Taylor G. Belcher ’41, ambassador to Cyprus; William H. Sullivan ’43, ambassador to Laos; and Nathaniel Davis ’46, ambassador to Guatemala.Ambassadors and ministers
Romeo Elton was professor of Latin and Greek languages and literature from 1825 to 1843, with Horatio Balch Hackett as adjunct professor from 1835 to 1838.Classics
College and University presidents who have been educated at Brown include nine of the presidents of Brown: Jonathan Maxcy1787, who was also the president of Union College and the University of South Carolina; Asa Messer1790; Barnas Sears1825, who had formerly been the president of Newton Theological Seminary; Alexis Caswell1822; Ezekiel Gilman Robinson 1838, who had been president of Rochester Theological Seminary; Elisha Benjamin Andrews1870, who had been president of Denison University and was later chancellor of the University of Nebraska; William Herbert Perry Faunce 1880; and Clarence Augustus Barbour 1888, who had also been president of Rochester Theological Seminary.College and University Presidents
Alpha Delta Phi established a chapter in 1836, followed by Delta Phi in 1838 and Psi Upsilon in 1840.Fraternities
Delta Phi (Beta chapter) was established in 1838, when an application of Jonas D. Sleeper 1840 and Edwin C. Larned 1840 for a chapter at Brown was granted by the first chapter at Union College, which had not approved any other extension of the fraternity since its founding in 1827.Fraternities
Robinson himself had stayed on in a rented room in the college after his graduation in 1838 in order to study German with Professor Horatio B. Hackett.Graduate School
Charles T. Congdon 1841 remembered Hackett: When Hackett left Brown in 1839 to become professor of Biblical literature at Newton Theological Institution, Ezekiel Gilman Robinson 1838 went along to continue his studies with him.Hackett, Horatio B.
John (Milton) Hay (1838-1905), secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State of the United States, was born on October 8, 1838 in a small brick house in Salem, Indiana.Hay, John
In the early days of the University sick students were sometimes cared for at the homes of local residents, and in 1872 Charles S. Bradley 1838 had paid for a free bed for Brown University at Rhode Island Hospital.Infirmary
John Whipple Potter Jenks graduated in 1838 and taught in Georgia for a few years.Jenks, John Whipple Potter
The author of "Old Grimes’ was Albert Gorton Greene1820, whose collection was on his death purchased by Caleb Fiske Harris 1838, and on the death of Harris purchased by Henry Bowen Anthony 1835.Library
In 1871, a former student with an interest in natural history, John Whipple Potter Jenks 1838, on resigning as principal of Pierce Academy, offered his services in connection with the natural history collection.Museum of Natural History
Ezekiel Gilman Robinson 1838, who studied under Wayland before the writing of the "Intellectual Philosophy," wrote of Wayland’s teaching; After Wayland, succeeding presidents continued to perform also as professors of moral and intellectual philosophy.Philosophy
Elliott kept this job until 1864, and was succeeded in the position by William Douglas 1839 from 1864 to 1879, Francis W. Douglas 1868 from 1879 to 1884, Gilman P. Robinson 1878 from 1884 to 1889, John C. Stockbridge 1838 from 1889 to 1891, and Frederick T. Guild 1890 from 1891 to 1938.Registrar
In 1838-39 Adjunct Professor Horatio B. Hackett taught Hebrew literature for one year before leaving to teach at Newton Theological Institution.Religious Studies