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 Hay 1858, 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
In appreciation, Angell invited them to a party when the child was a year old, and the students sang "The Angell Cradle," a song written especially for the occasion by John Hay 1858, to the tune, "Cocachelunk."Angell, James Burrill
Of this print William A. Mowry 1858 wrote to President Faunce in 1914, "In 1857 to 1860 and after I was the editor and publisher of ‘The R. I. Schoolmaster,’ I had the steel engraving of four buildings made at a cost of $50.00 and published it with a historical sketch of the College in ... the Schoolmaster for Jan. 1858....Campus
Alexis Caswell was vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1855, and at the meeting in 1858 presided in the absence of the president and vice-president.Caswell, Alexis
General Ambrose E. Burnside’s remarks were followed by a centennial poem by John Hay 1858, read in his absence by Professor James B. Angell 1849, which began: George William Curtis, honorary alumnus, responded to the sentiment, "The Adopted Sons of the University," and Professor Caswell 1822 responded to "The Memory of the Founders and Benefactors of the University" by contributing $1000 toward endowment of a professorship as a memorial of the occasion.Centennial celebration
The first scholarships provided by the University were established in 1858.Financial aid
After a while, fewer students were competing for the premiums (in small classes they could often predict who would win, anyway), and in 1858 under President Sears the funds for the University Premiums were converted into eleven scholarships, each the income of $1000.Financial aid
In September 1860, Miss Lydia Carpenter, a member of the First Baptist Church of Pawtucket, who had been baptized by Reverend David Benedict 1806, added four thousand dollars to a thousand which she had donated to the University in 1858 to establish a fund "to be called the AID FUND, which is to be applied to help deserving students, who may need aid after their admission into Brown University."Financial aid
Other Brown presidents who served as pastor were Jonathan Maxcy, who served for one year, 1791-1792, resigning when he became president of the college, and Francis Wayland, who was acting pastor from March 1857 to June 1858.First Baptist Church
Five of the nine active and eight graduate members who fought in the Civil War were killed, but John Hay 1858, secretary to Abraham Lincoln was able to save the life of his Confederate fraternity brother Clarence Bate ’58.Fraternities
As Class Poet, John Hay read his poem, "Erato," at Class Day on June 10, 1858, and captivated his audience.Hay, John
Although Nathaniel P. Hill did not graduate, he was appointed instructor in chemistry applied to the arts in 1858 and professor of chemistry in 1859.Hill, Nathaniel P.
Alexander Lyman Holley was engaged as a writer on engineering subjects by Henry J. Raymond, editor of the "New York Times," and contributed about 300 articles to the paper between 1858 and 1875.Holley, Alexander Lyman
The importance of Mr. Brown’s private collection is attested by this entry in "The Librarian’s Manual" in 1858: "These two Catalogues, (Rich’s Bibliotheca and Supplement), although they contain two thousand five hundred and twenty-three articles, are far from being complete.John Carter Brown Library
The new library was named for John Hay 1858 at the request of Andrew Carnegie, who contributed half of the $300,000 cost of the building.John Hay Library
John Kingsbury retired from his position at the Young Ladies’ High School in 1858, and was commissioner of public instruction in Rhode Island until 1859.Kingsbury, John
From 1858 to 1867, while still teaching the senior class and furnishing a substitute for his other classes, he was the principal of a school for young ladies, formerly operated by John Kingsbury1826.Lincoln, John Larkin
The equestrian statue, a copy of the one on Capitoline Hill in Rome, was presented by Col. Robert Hale Ives Goddard 1858 on behalf of his deceased brother Moses Brown Ives Goddard 1854.Marcus Aurelius
There was a Brown student orchestra as early as 1858, according to a flyer advertising a concert on April 19, 1858, at the Town Hall of nearby Seekonk, with "a chorus of forty singers ... accompanied by the ORCHESTRA of Brown University."Musical Clubs
Richard Olney attended Leicester Academy and graduated from Brown in 1856 and from Harvard Law School in 1858.Olney, Richard
John Hay 1858 wrote many poems, among them "Centennial" for the hundredth anniversary of the University in 1864.Poetry
There were eight subsequent religious revivals at Brown between 1834 and 1858.Religious Societies
In 1858 Thomas A. Tefft published a pamphlet, "Universal Currency: a Plan for Obtaining a Common Currency in France, England, and America, Based on the Decimal System."Tefft, Thomas A.
Lester F. Ward's first published story, written at the age of sixteen, was "The Spaniard’s Revenge," which appeared in the St. Charles "Argus" in the spring of 1858.Ward, Lester F.
The date is the anniversary of May 15, 1868, when the Battle of Ueno raged within sight and earshot of the school, while Fukuzawa Yukichi, founder of the school in 1858, continued to read to his students from Wayland’s "Elements of Political Economy," which Fukuzawa had brought back with him from a visit to the United States the year before.Wayland, Francis