Graduate of Centre College (Class of 1835); Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy (1836-1847); Professor of Mathematics (1847-1852); Professor of Physics and Chemistry (1852-1872); Professor of Metaphysics and Political Science (1872-1886);…
Centre College Professor of Natural Sciences (1872-1894); Professor of Geology and Biology (1894-1908); librarian (1908-1916); Dean (1896-1898); Acting President (1896-1898 and 1903-1904).
Aerial photograph of the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. Visible (l-r) are Carnegie Library, Boyle-Humphrey Alumni Gymnasium (with new addition being constructed), Old Main, Old Young, Veteran's Village, Fry House, and…
Aerial photograph of the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. Visible in the center are (clockwise) the back of Old Centre, Wiseman Hall, McReynolds Hall, and Hillcrest. In the lower left is the construction of the Main Street…
Aerial photograph of the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. Visible in the center are (clockwise) the back of Old Centre, Wiseman Hall, McReynolds Hall, and Hillcrest. In the photograph's top is seen (l-r) Carnegie Library,…
Aerial photograph of the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. Visible in the lower right are (clockwise) Old Centre, Wiseman Hall, McReynolds Hall, and Hillcrest. In the upper half are (l-r) Carnegie Library, Boyle-Humphrey…
Aerial view of Danville and the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. The campus is in the middle left. The view is looking east to west. The road in the center is Main Street, to the right Lexington Avenue, and to the left…
Aerial view of Danville and the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. The campus is in the lower left. The view is looking northwest to south east.
Aerial view of Danville and the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. Visible in the center are Old Main, Wiseman Hall, McReynolds Hall, and Hillcrest. To the left is Walnut Street and in middle is Main Street, showing the…
Aerial photograph of the Centre College campus taken by W. C. Alcock, October 28, 1939. Buildings that are visible include (l-r) the old Danville High School, Carnegie Library, Boyle-Humphrey Gymnasium, Old Main, Old Young, Fry House (upper right),…
Survey by Archibald Bilbo of seven acres of John Cochran's pasture land for the campus of the new college. The Board of Trustees paid $400 for the land. A few months later a strip 20 feet wide and the length of the first, was added to the north side.…
Portrait of Everett Wade Bedinger, Central University Class of 1878, dated 1883. Bedinger was born in Richwood, Ky., on July 16, 1858. After graduation from Central University, he studied law and practiced in West Virginia. From law he turned to…
Portrait in later life of William M. Paxton, who attended Centre in 1838. Paxton moved to Platte City, Missouri, in 1839, and became a lawyer, poet, and author.