Rev John Harvard (1607 - 1638)

Educator. Benefactor of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard students erected this monument in 1838, as his original stone had been lost. (bio by: Eric Thomsen)

Motoko Hani (1970 - 1970)

Literary critic, educator. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Goro Hani (1970 - 1970)

Literary critic, educator. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

James Lempriere Hammond (1970 - 1970)

Fellow of Trinity College, Tutor and Bursar. (bio by: David Conway)

Orata Hamao (1970 - 1970)

Educator. Served and president of Tokyo’s Teikoku University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Gentatsu Hamada (1970 - 1970)

Medical scholar, specialist in obstetrics and gynecology. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Hunter Guthrie (1901 - 1974)

Educator, Clergyman, and Author. Amoung his works were “Modern Trends in American Culture,” and “History of Theology.” He was an ordained priest of the Roman Catholic Church. Recipient of the Freedom award. Co-founder of the Catholic Commission for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs. (bio by: Laurie)

Mentor Graham (1970 - 1970)

Abraham Lincoln’s Tutor.  Family links:  Spouse:  Sarah Rafferty Graham (____ – 1869)* *Calculated relationship

John Gostlin (1970 - 1704)

President of Gonville and Caius College, 1679-1704 (bio by: David Conway)

Daniel Coit Gilman (1831 - 1908)

Educator. He was the first President of Johns Hopkins University, and was instrumental in establishing its hospital in 1889. He began the practice of requiring a college degree as a stipulation for entrance in the college, a practice that adopted by all other medical schools.  Family links:  Parents:  William Charles Gilman (1795 – 1863)  Eliza […]

Bart Giamatti (1938 - 1989)

Major League Baseball Commissioner, Educator. Born Angelo Bartlett Giamatti in Boston, Massachusetts, he was a professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University Connecticut and a master at Stiles College at Yale. In 1978, he was appointed the nineteenth President of Yale University, serving until 1986. He was the youngest President in the history of the […]

Abraham Geiger (1810 - 1874)

As a child, Abraham Geiger started doubting the traditional understanding of Judaism when his studies in classical history seemed to contradict the biblical claims of divine authority. At the age of seventeen, he began writing his first work, a comparison between the legal style of the Mishnah and Biblical and Talmudic law. He also worked […]

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787 - 1851)

American Deaf Education Pioneer. He is remembered as one of the co-founders for the first the first school for the deaf in North America. The son of a Revolutionary War soldier and personal secretary to US President George Washington when the Capitol was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he aspired to become a minister. He attended Yale […]

Toyohachi Fujita (1970 - 1970)

Oriental history scholar. Fujita served as a liaison between Japanese and Chinese students and authors. The Toyohachi Fujita collection of Japanese and Chinese books are a property of Tokyo’s Bunkyo Library. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Rabbi Menachem Froman (1945 - 2013)

Israeli Orthodox rabbi, educator and negotiator. He was one of the few Israelis who spoke with Palestinian Islamists of Hamas and  thought that was  possible peace with this movement that advocates the destruction of Israel. He was the rabbi of the Jewish settlement of Tekoa, south of the occupied West Bank Border, that believed that […]

Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (1782 - 1852)

Educator. Creator of the Kindergarten System. In 1837 he founded the Play and Activity Institute in Bad Blankenburg, Germany,  changing its name to the Kindergarten (“Children’s Garden”) in 1840.  Froebel was one of the first to use systematized play as a method to stimulate learning among the very young. (bio by: Tom Denardo)

Dr Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)

American economist and Nobel Prize Recipient. Born in New York City to Jewish parents immigrated from Hungary, he began developing his economic theories during the Great Depression, received a PhD from Columbia University in 1946, was Prosessor of Economics at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1976, became a senior research fellow at Stanford […]

Mary Emily Foy (1862 - 1962)

First woman head librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, appointed to the job in 1880 at the age of 18. She had graduated the year before from Los Angeles High School. She served for only four years but left a legacy for Los Angeles librarians to remember. (bio courtesy of: Wikipedia)  Family links:  Parents: […]

Marcus A Foster (1923 - 1973)

Educator.  Foster served as the Principal of Simon Gratz High School in Philadelphia, and later was the first black superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District in California.  He was murdered by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) because of his supposed support of a plan to create a student identification card system for the school […]

Dr Abraham Flexner (1866 - 1959)

Medical Pioneer, Educator. He prepared the “Flexner Report” for the Carnegie Foundation based on medical education in America which prompted the now standard four year system. Worked for Rockefeller Foundation and became first director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University; recruited many scholars, including Albert Einstein to work there. Autobiography published 1940, […]

Banister Fletcher (1970 - 1899)

Architect. Professor of Architecture at King’s College and Master of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters from 1889 to 1890. He co-authored ‘A History of Architecture’ with his eldest son Sir Banister Flight Fletcher. Also author of ‘A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method.’

William Preston Few (1867 - 1940)

First President of Duke University and last President of Trinity College.  (bio by: Helen L. Smith Hoke)  Family links:  Children:  Randolph Reamey Few (1920 – 2008)* *Calculated relationship

John Fell (1625 - 1686)

Bishop of Oxford and Dean of Christ Church. His legendary strictness made him unpopular and he is the original of the nursery rhyme:’I do not love thee, Dr. Fell / The reason why I cannot tell;/ But this I know, and know full well, /I do not love thee, Dr. Fell.’ (bio by: David Conway)

(1754 - 1820)

U. S. Surveyor, teacher, astronomer, Quaker, mathematician, Land Agent. Born 24 January 1754 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the first of nine children of a Quaker family, he was educated in a local Quaker school by Robert Patterson. He served during the revolution as a commissioned officer in the Elk Ridge Battalion of the Maryland militia […]

Charles William Eliot (1834 - 1926)

Academic, Educator. He is remembered as the president of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and served in that position from 1869 until 1909, having the longest term as president in the university’s history. Born into a wealthy family, his father served in the US House of Representatives and Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts for one term […]

Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758)

Religious Leader. A Calvinist theologian, he led the religious revival that initiated “The Great Awakening”. He served as President of Princeton University, and died in office after a smallpox inoculation. He preached famous sermon at Enfield, Connecticut “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”  Family links:  Parents:  Timothy Edwards (1669 – 1758)  Esther Stoddard […]

John Eachard (1970 - 1697)

Cleric, Author, Master of St. Catherine’s College and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University (bio by: David Conway)

Rev Henry Durant (1802 - 1875)

Educator, Oakland Mayor. Born in Acton, Massachusetts, Durant graduated from Yale in 1827 and was ordained a Congregational minister in 1833. In 1853 he moved out west after seeing the potential for education in the new state of California and went on to found Contra Costa Academy, which was renamed the College of California in […]

Glenn S. Dumke (1917 - 1989)

Educator. He moved to California in 1923, received a bachelor and master’s degree at Occidental College and his doctorate in history at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1957, he became president of San Francisco State College and while in that post was one of the principal architects of “The Master Plan for Higher […]

Dr W.E.B. DuBois (1868 - 1963)