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1845

  • Meetings were held from 1845 until 1853, but the address and dinner were omitted.Associated Alumni
  • James R. Boise was a tutor at Brown for three years, then was adjunct professor of Greek from 1843 to 1845, and professor of the Greek language and literature from 1845 to 1850.Boise, James R.
  • Two sons of Nicholas Brown 1786 attended, Nicholas Brown 1811, United States Consul in Italy from 1845 to 1853, and John Carter Brown 1816, donor of the funds for the library building which is now Robinson Hall, and founder of the collection of Americana which constitutes the John Carter Brown Library.Brown family
  • Arnold Buffum Chace (1845-1932), eleventh chancellor of the University, was born in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, on November 10, 1845.Chace, Arnold Buffum
  • Robinson P. Dunn would have entered Princeton Theological School in the fall of 1845, but remained at Brown because of the delay of Jewett’s return from Europe.Dunn, Robinson P.
  • Robinson P. Dunn did not lose any time, however, as he began the studies of his theological course, keeping up with his class and receiving weekly bulletins from his collegemate William F. Hansell 1845, who was taking the course.Dunn, Robinson P.
  • Robinson P. Dunn went to Princeton in December of 1845, graduated in 1848, was ordained a Presbyterian clergyman and was paster of the First Church in Camden, New Jersey, from 1848 to 1851.Dunn, Robinson P.
  • Romeo Elton moved to Exeter in England in 1845 and remained there until 1867, at which time he moved to Bath.Elton, Romeo
  • Enrollment fluctuated from 98 in 1828, to 196 in 1836, back down to 140 in 1845.Enrollment
  • From 1837 to 1845 George W. Greene was United States Consul at Rome.Greene, George W.
  • In 1845-46 he added recitations in history for the senior class, and in the second term of 1847-48 "read lectures on American history to the senior class."History
  • Returning in 1845, having bought seven thousand books in French, German, and Italian, and visited the principal libraries of Europe, Charles C. Jewett took up his duties as librarian and professor of modern languages.Jewett, Charles C.
  • He enlisted the aid of Henry Stevens "of Vermont," a recent Yale graduate and law student, who was willing to travel to Europe in 1845 to buy rare books for Brown and other clients.John Carter Brown Library
  • Judson, now living in Maulmein, began work on a Burmese-English dictionary, which he interrupted in 1845 in order to take his wife on a trip to the United States for her health.Judson, Adoniram
  • In November 1845 Adoniram Judson visited Brown, where he met with the members of the Philermenian Society and the Society for Missionary Inquiry.Judson, Adoniram
  • John Kingsbury was also president of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction from its inception in 1845 until 1856.Kingsbury, John
  • James Irving Manatt (1845-1915), professor of Greek literature and history, was born in Millersburg, Ohio, on February 17, 1845.Manatt, James Irving
  • In 1845, James K. Polk appointed him Secretary of War.Marcy, William L.
  • Jewett, who was also librarian of the college, was in Europe from 1843 to 1845 buying books for the library and improving his language skills.Modern Languages
  • Charles W. Parsons studied medicine with his father, at the medical schools in Boston and Philadelphia, and in Paris, and received his M.D. degree from Harvard in 1845.Parsons, Charles W.
  • Ezekiel Gilman Robinson moved to the Baptist Church in Cambridge in 1845, and resigned in less than a year to become professor of Hebrew in the theological seminary at Covington, Kentucky.Robinson, Ezekiel Gilman
  • After a succession of schoolmasters, many of whom served for only a year or two, in 1845 Henry S. Frieze 1841 and Merrick Lyon 1841 joined in the operation of the school.University Grammar School
  • Among the writings which made Wheaton famous were "Elements of International Law," published in 1836, "Enquiry into the Validity of the British Claim to a Right of Visitation and Search of American Vessels Suspected to be Engaged in the African Slave Trade" in 1842, and "History of the Law of Nations in Europe and America, from the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Washington" (a work which was first written in French for a competition of the French Institute, in which it won honorable mention) in 1845.Wheaton, Henry