Henry Stout
(couldn’t find a photo) Henry Stout was born on January 19th, 1838 in Raritan, NJ. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1865 and completed his work at the New Brunswick … Read More
Month: January 2020
Martin N. Wyckoff
Martin N. Wyckoff (1850-1911) was born in Middlebush, New Jersey and went to Rutgers Grammar School and later graduated from Rutgers College in 1872. Immediately after graduating, Wyckoff traveled to … Read More
James Ballagh
James Hamilton Ballagh was born on September 7th, 1832 in Hobart in Delaware County, NY, the son of immigrants from the north of Ireland. His parents were devout Presbyterians, and … Read More
Guido Verbeck
Guido Verbeck was born on January, 23, 1830 in Zeist, Netherlands. He hoped to become an engineer, and traveled to the US at the age of twenty-two to work at … Read More
Mary E. Kidder
Mary Eddy Kidder was born on January 31, 1834 in Wardsboro, Vermont. Her family was devoutly Christian, and after growing up and being educated in her hometown, she began to … Read More
Hattori Ichizo
This photo is of Hattori Ichizo himself, probably taken for the Epsilon Chi fraternity. Hattori Ichizo was born 1851 in the Choshu Clan in the Yamaguchi prefecture. He came to … Read More
Robert H. Pruyn
Robert H. Pruyn (1815-1882) was born in Albany, New York to a very esteemed Dutch family. He was a graduate of the class of 1833 with his bachelor’s degree … Read More
Iwakura Tomomi
Iwakura Tomomi (1825-1883) was one of the most important government leaders and influencers of the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and Japan’s modernization and exploration of the West. Born … Read More
William Elliot Griffis
William Elliot Griffis was born in 1843 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After serving in the Civil War, Griffis attended Rutgers in 1865. There, in the subjects of English and Latin, he … Read More
Katsu Koroku
In 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry came to Japan and demanded that they open up to the West. Japan had for hundreds of years remained closed off, immersed in its own … Read More