Stephen G. Wentworth (1811 - 1897)

Educator. Born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, he moved to Missouri in 1838, where he became involved in a number of entrepreneurial and public pursuits. From 1851 to 1864, he served as Public Administrator of Lafayette County, was a partner in the Morrison-Wentworth Bank and served as president of the Farmer’s Exchange Bank. He helped to incorporate […]

William Webbe (1970 - 1970)

Fellow of the College and nephew of the aster, Dr. William Branthwaite, a noted Puritan. (bio by: David Conway)

Kido Washizu (1970 - 1970)

Scholar of classical Chinese. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856 - 1915)

Social Reformer.  Born a slave on the James Burroughs’s Plantation in Hale’s Ford, Franklin County, Virginia, he was 9 years old when slavery was abolished.  He attended and graduated from Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in 1875.  In 1881 he was selected to head Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which is now Tuskegee University.  Booker […]

Cephas Washburn (1793 - 1860)

Cephas Washburn was ordained in 1818 in Waitsfield, Vermont by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to serve as a missionary to American Indians. He was assigned to the Cherokee. He served as a missionary to the Cherokee Indians at Brainerd Mission, Tennessee, for a short while. He migrated with them westward, arriving in […]

Joseph Ward (1838 - 1889)

US Statesman, Educator, Theologian. Joseph Ward received his theological training at Phillips Academy in Andover Massachusetts, Brown Universtity in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Andover Theological Seminary. Soon after finishing his schooling, he accepted a missionary church assignment, and formed the Congregational Church of Dakota in Yankton, South Dakota. Recognizing the need for formal learning […]

Claire Waldoff (1884 - 1957)

Claire Waldoff was born the eleventh child of 16 in Gelsenkirchen, Westphalia, were her parents owned a tavern. After completing Gymnasium school in Hanover, she trained as an actress and chose as her pseudoynm Claire Waldoff. In 1903, she got her first theatre jobs in Bad Pyrmont and in Kattowitz (Katowice), Silesia. In 1906, Waldoff went […]

Raphael von Koeber (1848 - 1923)

Russian philosopher. Born  from a family of German origin, he studied piano in Moscow with teachers such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Nikolai Rubinstein. Graduated in 1872, he decided to undertake the study of Philosophy at the University of Jena, where in 1878 he obtained his doctorate. He was Professor of Aesthetics, Musicology and Music […]

Rufus Bernhard Von Kleinsmid (1875 - 1964)

Educator. He was recognized as one of the nation’s most distinguished citizens and educators through the National Institute of Social Sciences Gold Medal Award. From 1914 to 1921, he served as the seventh president of the University of Arizona. In 1921, he became the fifth president the University of Southern California serving until 1947. Under […]

Pierre Theodore Verhaegen (1796 - 1862)

One of the founders of the non-religious university of Brussels (UniversitŽ Libre de Bruxelles).

Guido Herman Fridolin Verbeck (1830 - 1970)

Teijirou(Teijiro) Ueda (1970 - 1970)

Scholar of business management. Ueda also served as a president of Tokyo Shoka University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Rev Alexander Lucius Twilight (1795 - 1857)

Groundbreaking African-American educator. In 1823 he graduated from Middlebury College, making him the first black person in America to receive a college degree. He was a teacher and was also licensed to preach. In 1836 he became pastor of Brownington’s Congregational church and principal of the Orleans County Grammar School. To cope with school expansion […]

Michisuke Ueno (1888 - 1962)

Educator. Ueno was a professor at Tokyo University who is best known for his efforts in directing The Ueno Group who main task was to establish a legal system for corporate accounting in post-war Japan. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Eisaburo Ueno (1872 - 1925)

Doctor Ueno was the first professor of agriculture at Tokyo University. He owned an Akita named “Hachiko” who accompanied him from his home to Shibuya train station and awaited him on his return each day. After Professor Ueno suffered a fatal stroke at the university and never came home, Hachiko continued to return to the […]

Teijirou(Teijiro) Ueda (1970 - 1970)

Scholar of business management. Ueda also served as a president of Tokyo Shoka University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Kazutoshi Ueda (1970 - 1970)

Scholar of Japanese literature. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Bin Ueda (1874 - 1916)

Linguist. Scholar of the English and French languages. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Rev Alexander Lucius Twilight (1795 - 1857)

Groundbreaking African-American educator. In 1823 he graduated from Middlebury College, making him the first black person in America to receive a college degree. He was a teacher and was also licensed to preach. In 1836 he became pastor of Brownington’s Congregational church and principal of the Orleans County Grammar School. To cope with school expansion […]

Hideo Takamine (1854 - 1910)

Educator. During a tour of the United States, Takamine became one of the few eductors to obtain a firm grasp of the Pestalozzian method of instruction while carrying out practice teaching at Oswego Normal School. After returning to Japan, Takamine served on the staff of Tokyo Normal School and in 1881 became its Director. He […]

Teiji Takagi (1875 - 1960)

Mathematician. His most important contribution came in 1920 when he introduced the Takagi class-field theory. It subsequently became the framework of algebraic number theory. The German mathematician Hasse included Takagi’s theory in his treatise on class field theory a few years later. For his career work, Takagi received many honors, including from Czechoslovakia, the University […]

Sanae Takada (1970 - 1970)

Educator. Served as president of Waseda University, as well as Japan’s Minister of Education. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

George Clinton Swallow (1970 - 1970)

Educator. Born in Buckfield Maine, he served as a Professor of Chemistry and Geology before relocating Missouri in 1853, to become Missouri’s first state geologist. There he conducted geological surveys for the State of Missouri and the State of Kansas, before returning to the University of Missouri, to teach in 1858. In 1870, he became […]

Anne Sullivan (1866 - 1936)

Educator. Due to the death of her mother at an early age, she and her brother were sent to an orphanage. Because of her poor living conditions, she had health problems all her life and lost her sight at age 35. In 1887, she became governess to six-year-old Helen Keller. Using creativity and patience, she […]

Phebe W. Sudlow (1831 - 1922)

Educator. She was the first female public school principal in the United States, the first female school superintendant in the United States, the first female president of the Iowa School Teachers’ Association, and the first female professor at the University of Iowa. She accomplished all of this despite her lack of official academic credits. She […]

Walter Stubbe (1970 - 1970)

Fellow of the College. (bio by: David Conway)

Rembert E. Stokes (1917 - 1993)

President, Wilberforce University, 1956-1976. Was elected to the Bishopric of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1976. Held AME Church pastorates in Jamestown, RI, Cambridge, MA and Canton, OH. Also served as the Dean of the Payne Theological Seminary. Was also a member of the Board of Directors of the United Negro College Fund and […]

Ezra Stiles (1727 - 1795)

American Educator and Theologian. He was born in North Haven, Connecticut, the son of a minister. He attended Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut and graduated in 1746. He studied theology and was ordained as a minister in 1749, tutoring at Yale from that year until 1755. In 1753 he resigned from the ministry to […]

Alexander Peter Stewart (1821 - 1908)

Civil War Confederate General. Called “Old Straight”, he was a redhead who lacked the fiery temperament popularly associated with that hue and was instead an effective, if quiet and unassuming, leader who served in all the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee, then went on to one of the more distinguished post-war careers. Raised in […]

Theophilus Gould Steward (1843 - 1924)

African-American clergyman, teacher, and writer. One of six children of James Steward and Rebecca Gould Steward, Theophilus became a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in June of 1864 at the age of 21.  Initially appointed to a church in South Camden, New Jersey, the following year Theophilus received an appointment to South […]