Word: covington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most prominent candidates for the presidency and it is highly probable that he will be called to fill the place. President Robinson was graduated at Brown in 1838 and at Newton in 1842. He preached for a while in the South and was professor of Hebrew at Covington, Ky., in the theological seminary until the anti-slavery agitation changed the charter of the seminary. He then went to the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1853, and in 1872 he was elected president of Brown University, succeeding Dr. Alexis Caswell...
EDWARD A. HIBBARD, Secy class of 1844.LIFE OF RICHARD FULLERTON, A MEMBER OF THE CLASS OF 1844.I was born in Covington, Kentucky, June 10, 1861. My father, Charles F. Fullerton, was born in Dover, N. H., October 23, 1818. He was one of four sons of Eugene L. Fullerton, a physician of Dover. My grandfather's ancestors came to America from England, in 1744, and settled in Scituate, Mass. His branch of the family removed to Dover, where he was born July 12, 1783. In 1806 he married Rebecca Allison of Keene, N. H., and lived with her until...
...father removed to Covington in 1842, and soon established himself in the profession of law. In 1844 he was married to Elizabeth N. Chase, having by her one son. She died in 1849, and in 1852 my father was again married to Clara F. Weston, of Louisville, Ky., daughter of Hon. Charles L. Weston, then mayor of the city. The following table will show my family...
...near the residence of the Hon. John G. Carlisle, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and an intimate professional friend of my father. In this house I have resided all my life, excepting the six last years,-two spent at Exeter, four at Cambridge. Graduating at the Covington Grammar school in 1876 and the High school in 1878, I spent two years at Exeter, preparatory to entering Harvard. I passed at the July examination, 1880, with honors and conditions alike invisible. Travelling in Italy during the summer preceding my entrance to college, I became acquainted with Redburn of our class...