Virginia Canil & Eugene Tadie, Knox graduates and career United States diplomats
Mikiso Hane, Knox professor and scholar of Japanese history
Jumpei Okura, Knox graduate and Japanese business executive
Alexander Rabinowitch, Knox graduate and scholar of Russian history
1996
Robert J. Jamieson, Knox alumnus, trustee and ABC News corresponded
Keith Achepohl, Knox graduate and artist at the University of Iowa
Joan W. Harris, philanthropist and former Commissioner for Cultural Affairs of Chicago
Katharine C. Lee, director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
John F. Shenaut, Knox graduate and conductor emeritus of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra
1995
William H. Colby, Knox graduate and lawyer in landmark "right to die" cases
Jarvis B. Cecil, Knox graduate and trustee of the College
Karen A. Bowyer, Knox graduate and president of Dyersburg State Community College
James E. Crowfoot, Knox graduate and president of Antioch College
Curtis L. McCray, Knox graduate and president of Millikin University
Hoke L. Smith, Knox graduate and president of Towson State University
1994
Robert F. Spetzler, M.D., Knox graduate and neurosurgeon noted for work in brain surgery
Dean Buntrock, CEO of Waste Management, Inc.
1993
Walter Robert Connor, president of the National Humanities Center
Shirley Mahaley Malcom, division head, American Association for the Advancement of Science
William Lee Weiss, CEO of Ameritech
John P. McCall, president of Knox College, 1982-1993
R.W. "Johnny" Apple, correspondent, New York Times (awarded at Founders Day Convocation)
1992
Kathryn S. Fuller, president of the World Wildlife Fund
Houston Baker, Jr., scholar of African-American studies
Stephen Wolfram, professor at the University of Illinois and creator of "Mathematica"
1991
Robert Abernethy, NBC News correspondent
John H. Adams, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council
Luisa Valenzuela, Argentinean novelist
Janet D. Rowley, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago
1990
Paul R. Portney, director of Resources for the Future
Antonio I. Badia Margarit, linguist at the University of Barcelona
Jacqueline K. Barton, chemist at California Institute of Technology
Donald P. Verene, Knox graduate and philosopher at Emory University
1989
Rita F. Dove (pictured), poet laureate of the United States
Denis A. Baylor, Knox graduate and member of the National Academy of Science
Lewis S. Salter, physicist and former Dean of Knox College
Peter S. Willmott, philanthropist and former CEO of Carson Pirie Scott and Federal Express
1988
Ed Asner (pictured), actor and political activist
Dorothea Tanning, Knox alumna and noted surrealist artist
Karen Uhlenbeck, mathematician at University of Texas
Bruce Haywood, president of Monmouth College
1987
Rev. Peter J. Gomes, professor and Memorial Church minister at Harvard University
Dr. Albert E. Finholt, Knox graduate and chemist at St. Olaf College
Seymour M. Hersh, investigative journalist and winner of Pulitzer Prize
Ardis Krainik, general manager of Lyric Opera of Chicago
Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (awarded at Founders Day Convocation)
1986
Ted Koppel (pictured), host of the ABC News program Nightline
Beatrice Sweeney, biologist at University of California-Santa Barbara
K. Joachim Weintraub, Knox trustee and historian at University of Chicago
John Palmer, Knox graduate and Dean of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin
1985
Patricia Scott Schroeder (pictured), Member of Congress from Colorado
Gary Stanley Becker, economist at University of Chicago and winner of Nobel Prize
Eleanor Harz Jorden, scholar of Japanese language at Yale University
Thomas E. Kurtz, co-author of BASIC computer language (awarded at Founders Day)
1984
John R. Block, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Jonathan D. Spence, author and scholar of Chinese history
Rothwell C. Stephens, professor of mathematics at Knox College, 1931-1976
Eugenia R. Zukerman, classical flautist
1983
Peter H. Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Robert Nozick, author and philosopher at Harvard University
Susan Stamberg, correspondent at National Public Radio
1982
Ismat Kittani, Knox graduate and president of United Nations General Assembly
Henry J. Abraham, scholar of judiciary and government, University of Virginia
E. Inman Fox, president of Knox College, 1974-1982
Clifford J. Geertz, anthropologist, Institute for Advanced Study
Tillie Olsen, author and scholar
1981
George F. Will (pictured), columnist and winner of Pulitzer Prize
Carl W. Condit, historian of urban architecture
Charles Fefferman, mathematician, Princeton University
1980
Hanna Gray, president of the University of Chicago
Richard Dale Stillwell, composer
1979
Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights activist
Max Goodsill, Knox graduate, advertising executive, former director of public relations and other administrative posts at the College
1978
Robert Coles, author and psychiatrist at Harvard University
Stephen Weinberg, physicist at the University of Texas
1977
Patricia Roberts Harris, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Morton Webster Weir, Knox graduate and chancellor of the University of Illinois
1976
Studs L. Terkel, author and winner of Pulitzer Prize
William Karnes, Knox College trustee, chairman of Beatrice Foods
1975
Stewart Lee Udall, U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Harold Szold, Knox Class of 1915, investment banker and partner, Lehman Bros; Knox College Trustee
Robert Stephen Ingersoll, diplomat, CEO and Chairman of Borg Warner
Ismat Kittani, Knox graduate, career diplomat representing Iraq at the United Nations
1974
David Halberstam, journalist and winner of Pulitzer Prize
John Bartlow Martin, author and diplomat
1973
William Baumol, economist and historian of entrepreneurship
Arthur Bueche, engineer and executive with General Electric
Charles H. Percy, U.S. Senator from Illinois
1972
George W. Ball, U.S. Undersecretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Richard Johnson '29, president of National College of Education
1971
Robert Joseph Northshield, Knox Class of 1944, NBC TV News producer
1970
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
George Rickey, former Knox faculty and noted "kinetic artist"
Joseph J. Sisco, Knox graduate and trustee and U.S. Undersecretary of State
1969
George Beadle -- Nobel Prize winner and scientist at the Institute for Biomedical Research, Education and Research Foundation of the American Medical Association
Milton E. Muelder -- Knox College Class of 1930. Political scientist, dean of the graduate school and vice president for research at Michigan State University
Walter G. Muelder -- Knox College Class of 1927. Dean and professor of social ethics, School of Theology at Boston University
Hermann R. Muelder -- Knox College Class of 1927. Noted historian and member of the Knox College faculty
1968
Merriman Smith -- White House Correspondent, United Press International
Everett Dirksen -- United States Senator from Illinois
Philip D. Sang -- Chicago ice cream manufacturer and noted collector of books and manuscripts relating to Abraham Lincoln and American history
1967
David Brinkley -- NBC News correspondent
Franklin E. Agnew
1966
John D. deButts -- Executive Vice President, AT&T
Mark Van Doren -- Pulitzer Prize winning poet and literary critic
Vernon Welsh -- Knox College Class of 1913. Attorney and senior partner of Kirkland Ellis Hodson Chavetz and Masters, Chicago; Member and Chair of the Knox College Board of Trustees.
1965
William Hewitt -- Chairman and CEO, Deere and Co.
1964
Howard Bowen -- President, Grinnell College
1963
Clarence Belden Randall -- Chairman of Inland Steel Company
James Gordon Gilkey, Jr. -- Minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, New York
Douglas Maitland Knight -- President of Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin
Walter Forrest Smith -- Chairman of Kingsport Press, Kingsport, Tennessee
1962
John Eldred Swearingen, Jr. -- Chief Executive Officer, Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Ralph Geoffrey Newman -- Owner of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago; author and columnist; authority on Civil War period
William Blair Stewart -- Economist and educator; president of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest
1961
Reuben Gilbert Gustavson, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Arizona; former president of the University of Colorado, Boulder; dean of the University of Chicago; chancellor of the University of Nebraska
Louis Tom Linson Benezet, President of Claremont University Center; former faculty of Knox College; former president of Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Chester Verne Easum -- Knox Class of 1914, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin; Rhodes Scholar; specialist on German affairs and advisor to the State Department
Orrin Harold Smith -- Knox Class of 1908, Professor and chairman of the department of physics at DePauw University
1960
William Benton, Chairman of the Board, Encyclopedia Britannica; former Assistant Secretary, State, U.S.A., U.S. Senator from Connecticut; ex-administrator at the University of Chicago; publisher and author; expert on international economics
Chesser Milburn Campbell, Newspaper executive; president of the Chicago Tribune, director of WGN; executor, Robert R. McCormick Estate and Foundation
Nelson Dean Jay -- Knox Class of 1905, International banker; former partner-director, Morgan and Co. in Paris, France; director of J.P. Morgan and Co.; Morgan-Guaranty Trust Co., N.Y.; trustee at Knox College
Roy Franklin Nichols, Professor of history and vice provost, University of Pennsylvania; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history, 1949; specializing in American History
1959
Frederick Russell Kappel, President, American Telephone and Telegraph, New York City
David Dodds Henry, President of the University of Illinois; former teacher, author and educational administrator
John Roberts Mayor -- Class of 1928, Former professor and acting dean at the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin; director of educational projects at A.A.A.S., Washington D.C. Recipient of Knox College Alumni Achievement Award, 1957
Quincy Wright, Professor of International Law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Formerly at the University of Chicago; advisor to UNESCO and U.S. Department State; trustee of Knox College; instructor of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University
1958
Robert Sutherland, Knox trustee and sociologist at University of Texas
Bruce Catton (pictured), historian and winner of Pulitzer Prize
Theodore Distler, executive director of the Association of American Colleges
William Hesseltine, Civil War historian at University of Wisconsin
Stefan Lorant, historian of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt
Allen Nevins, Civil War historian at Columbia University
Alfred Newcombe, historian at Knox College
Ruth Randall, author of books on Lincoln
Paul Salzberg, Knox graduate and chemist at DuPont
1957
Frederic Russell Gamble -- Knox Class of 1920, Advertising executive; advisor to the U.S. Department of Commerce
Roy Claire Ingersoll -- Knox Class of 1908 (pictured), Director, former president and chairman of Borg-Warner Corp., Chicago; trustee of Knox College, 1926-1937
James Roscoe Miller, Physician, educator, and president at Northwestern University; former professor and dean at the Medical School at Northwestern University
Sewall Wright, Geneticist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.; University of Chicago; and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
1956
Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times
Thomas Harper Blodgett -- Knox Class of 1899, Chairman and President of American Chicle Co., New York City; trustee of Knox College
Oscar Hammerstein II (pictured), Broadway lyricist
George Marsh Higgins -- Knox Class of 1914, Research Director of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; former faculty of Knox College; Alumni trustee; later a professor at Baylor University Medical School
Lawrence A. Kimpton, Chancellor, University of Chicago.
1955
Orie Leon Phillips -- Lawyer, legislator, judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver
Lloyd William Daly -- Knox Class of 1932, Author and professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania
1954
Carlos P. Romulo -- Diplomat, Republic of the Philippines; also journalist, educator professor of English at University of the Philippines; Brigadier General in World War II; Ambassador to the U.N.; President of U.N General Assembly; Ambassador to the U.S.A.
Willard Leroy King -- Class of 1916, Lawyer, author, and biographer; trustee at Museum Science and Industry, Chicago
Ernst Henry Volwiler -- Research chemist for Abbott Laboratories, Chicago; director and president of Abbott Corp.; holder of many pharmaceutical patents
1953
Benjamin F. Fairless, Engineer and corporate executive, director, president and chairman of U.S. Steel Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
J. Robert Szold -- Class of 1909, Lawyer in New York City; former assistant attorney general for Puerto Rico; former assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States; leader in Zionist and Palestine relief
Benjamin Platt Thomas -- Author, editor, and lecturer in Springfield, Illinois; authority on Lincoln documents
1952
Paul H. Douglas -- United States Senator from Illinois
Sarah Gibson Blanding -- President of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York; former professor of Political Science and dean of the College Home Economics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
Chauncey Samuel Boucher -- Abraham Lincoln Lecturer in American Civilization, Knox College; former professor and university dean, chancellor and president
1951
Carol Meteer Shanks -- Lawyer, president of Prudential Life Insurance Co., Newark, New Jersey; trustee of Johns Hopkins University and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University
Hobart Raymond Gay -- Class of 1917, Career officer for the U.S. Army; retired as Major General in Command 5th Army; later, Superintendent, New Mexico Military Academy, Roswell, New Mexico
Jeannette Paddock Nichols -- Class of 1913, Biographer, writer, lecturer and faculty member, University of Pennsylvania
1950
Lenox Riley Lohr, President of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago; engineer, author; manager of "Century of Progress" and "Railway Fair" exhibits
Alfred William Bays -- Class of 1901, Lawyer, Abbott Industries, Chicago; trustee of Knox College; executive of Abbott Trust Funds
Martha Boyden Finley -- Class of 1886, Social worker and founder of the Y.W.C.A.
Frank Morrill Lay -- Class of 1892, Trustee of Knox College and chairman of the board of trustees for 14 years; also trustee of Yankton College in South Dakota; director and former president of Boss Manufacturing Co., Kewanee, Illinois
Kellogg Day McClelland -- Class of 1905, Secretary, treasurer, business manager and trustee of Knox College for 45 years; acting president 1948-1949
Janet Greig Post -- Class of 1894, Trustee of Knox College for 38 years; former dean of women; Janet Greig Post Residence for women named in her honor
1949
Chris Lauriths Christensen -- Business executive; director of Celotex Corp., International Harvester, Armour and Co.; advisor to the U.S. Department of Agriculture; former Dean of Agricultural Experimental Station at the University Wisconsin, Madison
Carter Davidson -- Eleventh President of Knox, later President of Union College in Schenectady, New York; later, chancellor of Union University; author and professor of English
Nels Francis Nordstrom -- Class of 1932, Clergyman in Chicago; later in Wisconsin
John P. Wilson, Lawyer and civic leader in Chicago; philanthropist
1948
Franklyn Bliss Snyder, President of Northwestern University; former professor of English Literature and dean of the graduate school, Northwestern Univ.; author and editor
George Stuart Benson, President of Harding College, Searcy, Arkansas; former missionary and teacher in China; authority on Oriental religions and philosophy
Edward Eagle Brown, Lawyer and banker in Chicago; chairman of the Board of the First National Bank in Chicago; trustee for the University of Chicago
1947
* Herbert V. Prochnow, vice-president of First National Bank of Chicago
Ira D. Cardiff ('97), Botanist; manufacturer and president of Dehydrated Products Company, Yakima, Washington; former professor of Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas; retired Director at Washington Agricultural Exp. Stn., Pullman, Washington
Mabel Heren, Professor of mathematics at Knox College for 39 years
Ray Tyson Maddocks ('16), Career officer for the U.S. Army; retired as a Major General
Lloyd Milton Short ('19), Educator, Professor of Political Science; assistant dean graduate school and director of the Public Administration Center at the University of Minnesota; later, with the U.S. Civil Service Committee as an advisor.
1946
Harold Orlando McLain, President of Railways Ice Company
William Blakeman Lame ('07), Clergyman in St. Louis, Missouri; moderator of the General Assembly for Presbyterian Churches; Alumni trustee of Knox College (1935-1938)
Alice Felt Tyler ('13), Author and professor of history at the University of Minnesota
Elray Cloud Wampler ('16), President and chairman, Carrier Corp. in Syracuse, New York; former banker and investment counselor in Chicago
Nelson Wolcott Willard ('96), Trustee at Knox College for 38 years; former faculty of Knox College; assistant to the president of A.T. & Santa Fe Rail Road, Chicago; a founder of the Knox 50-year club
1945
* Wilson Watkins Wyatt, Lawyer, mayor of Louisville, Kentucky; later, the Governor of Kentucky; manager of Adlai Stevenson's 1952 presidential campaign
Palmer Daniel Edmunds ('12), Lawyer, educator, author, editor, and law lecturer in Chicago; faculty of Knox College for 15 years; professor of law at John Marshall Law College in Chicago
Adda Gentry George ('95), Civic leader in Evanston and Galesburg; founder of Carl Sandburg Association to preserve the Sandburg birthplace in Galesburg
Dwight Herbert Green, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, prosecuted organized crime; Governor of Illinois (1941-1949)
Frances Arnold Woods ('95), Galesburg civic leader; president of Knox Alumni Association, 1945
1944
Paul DeKruif, Bacteriologist, author of "The Microbe Hunters"
Paul Angle, Lincoln historian
Alice Caroline Willard ('02), Assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto, Canada; former faculty of Knox College
1943
* John William Bricker, Governor of Ohio, 1939-1945; later, U.S. Senator; candidate for vice president of the United States, 1944
Harold Nathan Graves ('08), Lawyer, assistant to Secretary of the Treasury in Washington, D.C.; broadcasting executive in Seattle, Washington
Westbrook Pegler, newspaper columnist
Edward Beattie Stephenson ('03), Physicist, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.; former faculty of Knox College
1942
* S. DeWitt Clough, Pharmaceutical executive president, Abbott Labs, Chicago
Frank Wenner ('99), Physicist, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.; Carnegie Institute of Technology; and Rubicon Co., Philadelphia
1941
* Walter R. MacCornack ('01), Architect, author; authority on slum clearance and low cost housing, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Alida Elizabeth Finch ('91), Insurance underwriter for Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Henry Martin Seymour ('84), Farmer, orchardist, realtor, Payson; donor to the Henry M. Seymour Library at Knox College, 1928
1940
* Will Irwin, author, lecturer, columnist, war correspondent; 1930 Honnold Lecturer at Knox College
Harry Hayes Cleaveland ('90), Institute executive for Rock Island; president of Bituminous Casualty Co.; later, trustee of Knox college
Nobel Sproat Heaney ('02), Obstetrician and Gynecologist; professor at Rush Medical School in Chicago; later, staff at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles, California
Charles Leslie Rice, Trustee of Knox College
1939
* Edgar Lee Hewett, archeologist and professor of archeology, University of New Mexico
Andrew Magee Harvey ('89), Industrial physician and surgeon, Crane Co., Chicago; authority on industrial safety
Harry Thomas Stock ('14), Author of religious books; secretary for the department of Student Life, Congregational Board Home Missions, Boston, Massachusetts
1938
* Silas Hardy Strawn, President of the American Bar Association, partner in Winston & Strawn law firm in Chicago
Clarence Elmer Comstock ('88), professor of mathematics at Knox College and Bradley University
Edward Charles Franing ('98), Physician and Surgeon in Galesburg; Knox College Physician for 30 years
Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Book designer and publisher, Alderbrink Press, Chicago
Ralph Waldo Trine, Knox graduate and author whose work in psychology and religion was noted as recently as a 2005 conference of the Society for Neuroscience
1937
* Donald J. Cowling, President of Carleton College
Albert Britt ('98), Author, editor, and educator; Tenth president of Knox; biographer and authority on Early Americana
John Leonard Conger, Educator, historian, and civic leader, professor of history at Knox College for 36 years; former mayor of Galesburg
Lewis McOmber Evans ("Mack"), Organist and choir-master at the University of Chicago
Dixon Ryan Fox, President at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.
William James Hamilton, Superintendent of elementary education in Oak Park, Illinois for 20 years
Corliss Wilkes Lay ('87), Missionary to India; former general secretary for Yankton College in Yankton, South Dakota
Charles LeRoy Lowman, Orthopedic surgeon in Los Angeles, California; author of medical texts on orthopedics
Selden Gale Lowrie ('07), Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati; author and economist
James Lukens McConaughy, Ninth President of Knox College; president of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut; later, Governor of Connecticut
Frederick A. Middlebush, Former faculty of Knox College; professor of history, dean and president at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Floyd Eugene Thompson, Lawyer in Chicago; member of the Illinois Supreme Court; authority on Civil Law
Hettie Linsley Thompson ('77), Educational and civic leader in Galesburg
John Gilbert Winan, Governor of New Hampshire; later, Ambassador to Great Britain
Theodore Paul Wright, Directing Engineer, vice president of Curtis Wright Corp.; administrator of the Civil Aeronautics Administration; president of Cornell University Aeronautical Laboratory
1936
Clarence Addison Dykstra, City Manager for Cincinnati, Ohio; President of the University of Wisconsin, later Provost, University of California, Los Angeles
Frederic Carlos Ferry, President at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York
Albert Hatton Gilmer ('00), Educator and playwright; chairman of the speech and drama department at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania for 20 years
James MacConnell Weddell, Composer, Organist, educator; faculty at the Knox Conservatory (47 years); former chairman of the department of Music at Knox College
1935
Charles Carlton George ('85), Banker and Realtor in Omaha, Nebraska; trustee of Knox College; director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Emanuel Hertz, Lawyer, lecturer, author, and philanthropist in New York; donor of Lincolniana to Knox
Victor Vaughn Lytle ('09), Professor of musical theory at Oberlin Conservatory of Music; author and composer
Donald Randall Richberg, Lawyer, general counsel for the National Recovery Administration in Washington, D.C.; authority on labor relationships. Who's Who
1934
Jane Addams (pictured), founder of Hull House in Chicago and winner of Nobel Peace Prize
Frank Homer Gaines ('84), Lawyer in Omaha, Nebraska
Otto Harbach, Knox graduate and Broadway lyricist
Howard Ansley Murphy ('14), Teacher and Music Educator at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York; composer and author of music texts
George Hinsdale Win ('05), Clergyman, author, missionary to North Korea from the Presbyterian Board of Missions
1933
Loyal Edward Davis ('16), Neurological surgeon; chairman of the surgery division of Northwestern University Medical School; author of medical textbooks; chief of neural surgery in the European sector during World War II; president of the American Coll. of Surgeons
Henry Horner, Governor of Illinois
1932
Jesse Allen Crafton ('12), Playwright and poet; professor of speech and drama; chairman, dept., University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas
Rachel Louise Fitch ('02), Dean of women at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; former educator for A.A.U.W. and Tri Delt National Mags.; publicity director, Y.W.C.A., France, 1918
Caroline Lulu Palmer ('92), Dean of women and professor at the Biblical Seminary in New York
Ella McBride Rainey ('80), Social worker in Washington, D.C.; wife of Congressman, established the Rainey Loan Fund for Knox College
1931
Edward Caldwell ('86), Trustee of Knox College; president of McGraw-Hill Publishing Company; donor of the Finley Collection of historic documents in Seymour Library; co-founder of the Knox Fifty Year Club.
Edward O. Holyoke ('81), Clergyman in Providence, Rhode Island for 44 years; lecturer at Colgate and Newton Theological Seminaries
Julia Clifford Lathrop, Authority on mental care, juvenile problems, and child care; resident head of Hull House in Chicago
1930
Milton Joseph Foreman, Lawyer in Chicago; Colonel in World War I; later a Brigadier General, Major General and Lieutenant General, 33rd Division, Illinois National Guard; past National Commander, American Legion. Civic leader and author
William Mather Lewis ('00), Educator and President of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania; formerly President of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Carl Keister McKinley ('15), Organist and Choir-master in Boston, Massachusetts; composer of organ, piano and choral music
Joseph Edward Oris, Banker, stock broker; chairman of the Board for Central Illinois Trust Co., Chicago
Chloe Owings ('10), Author and social worker; decorated by the government of France with the Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise for work in war-torn France
Frank Hayward Severence ('78), Editor, author, lecturer, and historian in Buffalo, New York
Silas Hardy Strawn, Lawyer, Chicago; counsel for C.M. St. P. and P.R.R. and Union Stock Yards; philanthropist; life trustee for Northwestern University, Evanston
Thomas Taylor ('81), Lawyer and judge for the Circuit and Appellate Courts in Chicago for 18 years. Master in Chancery, Chicago for 20 years
1929
Mary Margaret Bartelme, Lawyer; judge for Circuit and Juvenile courts in Chicago; public guardian for Cook County, Illinois
Edwin Eugene Cox ('91), Lawyer in New York; realtor in San Francisco and Los Angeles; authority on farm tenancy in the U.S.
Anna Frances Hoover ('89), Librarian for the Galesburg Public Library for 35 years
Jacob H. Hopkins ('87), Lawyer, jurist, philanthropist; judge for the Superior Court, and, later, Chief Justice, of the Criminal Court of Chicago
1928
Wilbur Leslie Evans ('93), investment banker in San Antonio, Texas
Charles Joseph Finger, Author, editor and publisher of "All's Well" Magazine; ed. at Bellows-Reeve Co., Fayetteville, Arkansas; writer of fiction and biography
Joseph Ralston Hayden ('10), Author, educator, and professor of political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; authority on the Philippines
George Roscoe Hedge, Major, later colonel, U.S.A.; professor of Military Science and Tactics at Knox
Carl Sandburg, Galesburg native and author
1927
Walter Franklin Boyes, Educator; superintendent of schools in Knox County for 32 years
Henry Seidel Canby, Educator, editor, and Professor of English at Yale University; editor of the Saturday Rev. Lit.; on the Board for the Book-of-the-Month Club; trustee for Finch Gr. College, Connecticut; author and biographer
William Lincoln Honnold, Mining, consulting engineer in South Africa for 15 years; active in post-war Belgian relief; consulting engineer in Los Angeles, California. Endowed Honnold Lectureship and Fellowships for Knox
1926
Edward Payson Heizer ('77), Educator, journalist; editor at a Hinton, Iowa newspaper
Henry Willard Lampe ('01), Clergyman, Missionary to Korea; author of religious articles
Merrit Starr, Lawyer, author specialist in Civil Service; former trustee at Oberlin College and National Kindergarten and Elementary College, Evanston, Illinois
Horace Kent Tenney, Lawyer and professor of law at the University of Chicago
1925
Fred B. Brown ('85), Farmer, educator, and lawyer. Judge of the Superior Court in San Jose, California
Mary Charlotte Hurd ('80), Faculty of Knox College for 17 years, donor to the Albert Hurd Book Collection
Ray Freeman Jeney, Clergyman of Galesburg; trustee of Knox College; author and lecturer in pulpits in the East
John Charles Olsen ('90), Educator, author and chemist; prof. and chem. dept., Chemical Engineer of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Melville Elijah Stone, journalist and newspaper manager; co-founder of the Chicago Daily news and Chicago Record; later Bank director in New York and counselor for the Associated Press in New York City
1924
Frank Taylor Fulton ('94), Physician and heart specialist in Providence, Rhode Island; author and educator; leader in New England Medical Circles
Harry Clay Hale, Major General in U.S.A. service in Indian wars, the Spanish American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and World War I. Commander of the 6th Corps Area (including Illinois.), Chicago
Francis Lilian Taylor, Educator at Galesburg Public Schools; head of the Galesburg Teachers Training School; author of "Children's Readers"
Harriet Elizabeth Vittum, Social worker in Chicago; resident head of Northwestern University Settlement
Lyman Perl Wilson ('04), Lawyer and author; professor of Law at Cornell University at Ithaca, New York
Charles Truman Wyckoff ('84), Professor of history and dean at Bradley University in Peoria; authority and writer on English history
1923 (Lombard College)
Carl Sandburg, Galesburg native and author
1923
Thomas Arkle Clark, Professor of English and dean of men at the University of Illinois for 50 years; first Dean of Men in the U.S.
George Candee Gale ('93), Lawyer, Galesburg; expert on municipal and state taxation. Former faculty of Knox College
Fred Reuben Jelliff ('78), Newspaper editor, amateur geologist, Galesburg; author of histories of Galesburg, and of Knox College; former faculty of Knox College
Thomas James Norton, Lawyer and author, Chicago; expert on corporation and constitutional law; former attorney of the Santa Fe Railroad, Chicago
1922
Albert Augustus Boyden ('96), Managing editor of American Magazine and McClure's Magazine, New York City
George Anderson Cooke ('92), Lawyer in Chicago; legislator, Chief Justice, Illinois Supreme Court
Ella Park Lawrence ('78), Trustee at Park College; benefactor of Knox College; established the first loans fund for women at Knox
Eula Bates Lee ('87), Missionary to Turkey; secretary of the Women's Board, Home Missions, Chicago; secretary of the American Bd., Foreign Missions, Boston, Massachusetts
James Julius Parks ('72), Lawyer in St. Louis, Missouri; insurance executive; trustee at Westminster College, Missouri; former president of the Bd. Presbyterian Orphanage, Farmington, Missouri
J. Merle Stevens, Clergyman, Peoria; later at Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
1921
Earnest Elmo Calkins (pictured), Knox graduate and advertising executive who wrote a widely regarded history of Galesburg, They Broke the Prairie
William Bailey Hague ('71), Clergyman and educator in Gorham, Maine; former instructor at Knox Academy
Jessie Rosette Holmes ('85), Professor Emerita. Faculty member of Knox College for 41 years
Charles Ethelbert McKinley, Clergyman in Galesburg; trustee of Knox College; later was acting president of Knox in 1925, and lecturer; later superintendent of the Rhode Island Congl. Conference
James George Needham ('91), Entomologist and textbook writer; former faculty member of Knox and professor of entomology and limnology at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Francis Hinckley Sisson ('92), Banker, New York; National president of Beta Theta Pi; president of the American Bankers Association; trustee of Knox College
Graham Taylor, Clergyman and Professor of Social Economics at the Chicago Theological Seminary; founder and resident head of Chicago Commons Social Settlement; author, editor
1920
Stockton Axson, Professor of English at Rice Institute, Houston, Texas; Shakespearean scholar
Louise deKoven Bowen (Mrs.), Author and social worker in Chicago; President of the Juvenile Protective Association for 35 years; President of Hull House; Vice President of the Associated Charities of Chicago
Edward Nash Hurley, Manufacturer and financier, Chicago; developed the pneumatic tool industry in the U.S. and Europe
Kellogg Day McClelland ('05), Treasurer, trustee, and acting president of Knox College
Delia Rice Matheny ('84), Physician of Galesburg; former instructor at the Knox Academy and medical advisor to Knox women. Later a physician in California
William Perry Northrup, Physician in New York City; professor of pediatrics for various New York Hospitals; former instructor at Knox College
William Allen White, journalist
1919
Louis Allard, Harvard Exchange Professor 1918-1919; authority on French Literature
Donald John Cowling, President of Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota (36 years)
Matthew Willard Lampe ('04), Clergyman, Professor and Founder of the School of Religion at the university of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; former faculty of Knox College
Frank Orren Lowden, Lawyer, agriculturalist; governor of Illinois; trustee of Knox college; former faculty of Northwestern Law School; member of the 59th, 60th, and 61st Congresses from Illinois
Frank Owen Moulton ('74), Lawyer, civic leader, Chicago; trustee, Knox College
Janet Greig Post ('94), Philanthropist, Oneida and Chicago; dean of women at Knox College; later trustee and chairman of Knox Centennial and rebuilder of Old Main
William Edward Simonds Professor of English and dean of Knox College for 41 years; author and lecturer
Martha Farnham Webster ('69), Former faculty of Knox College; author of "History of Knox College," and "75 Significant Years"; co-founder, Knox County Historical Society, Galesburg
1918
Frederick William Hawley, President of Park College, Parkville, Missouri (23 years)
Everett Ward Olmsted ('91), Litt.D. Author, educator, professor and chairman of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Minnesota
G. Byron Smith ('89), Sc.D. Founder and President of Iberia Junior College, Iberia, Missouri; benefactor of Knox
C.J. Whipple ('68), D.D. Episcopalian clergyman and author, New York City
1917
Sherman Colver Kingsley ('92), LL.D. Children's social worker, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland; with the U.S. Bureau of Education, Cleveland, Ohio, and later in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1916
Henry Mahan Beadsley, Lawyer, mayor, Kansas City, Missouri; president of the Kansas City Y.M.C.A. (50 years)
Louis Barton Crane ('91), Clergyman, educator, author, lecturer, Elizabeth, New Jersey; director, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. Later, Moderator, National Council of Congregatinoal Churches.
Franklyn Elsworth Jeffrey ('87), Clergyman; missionary to India; pastor, Galesburg
Edgar Hersman Montgomery ('94), Clergyman, Secretary and general manager of the Ohio Presbyterian Home, Sidney, Ohio
James Fulton Percy, Surgeon, Staff Medical College of Medical Evangelists, Loma Linda, California. Former physician, surgery, Galesburg; Medical Advisor, Knox College; cancer specialist
1915
James Barbour Ayres ('85), Clergyman; missionary to Japan
George Latimer Bates ('85), Naturalist, ornithologist; 25 years in Africa; Assoc. British Museum of National History, London, England
Blanche M. Boult, (Cons., '92), Faculty, Knox Conservatory (46 years).
Allen B. Dow (Cons. '92), Former faculty, Knox Conservatory Teacher, Piano and Voice, Portland, Oregon
John Lauderdale Kennedy ('83), Lawyer and banker, Omaha, Nebraska. Former member 59th Congress from Nebraska; federal fuel administrator, Nebraska, World War I
Harriet W. Webster, (Cons., '91), Former faculty, Knox Conservatory Teacher, Music, Geneva, Ohio
1914
William Eleazer Barton, Clergyman, author, historian, Boston and Oak Park, Illinois churches, authority on Lincoln• Frank Sargent Hoffman ('73), Clergyman, editor, author, professor of philosophy, Union College, Schenectady, New York
Erastus Swift Willcox ('51), Author, educator, librarian, Knox College, and librarian, Peoria Public Library
Roy Berben Guild ('94), Clergyman, Topeka, Kansas. Later, associate general secretary, Fed. Council Churches of America, New York City
James Percival Huget, Congregational clergyman in Galesburg, and Shelter Island, N.Y.; trustee, Knox College
Charles Wesley Leffingwell ('62), Clergyman, editor, author; founder and rector of St. Mary's School (for girls, 1868) ad St. Alban's (for boys, 1890), Knoxville. Benefactor of Knox
Arthur M. Little, Clergyman, New Hampshire and Maine; Trustee, Ripon College; president of the board, Bradford Academy, Bradford, Pennsylvania, and president, Andover Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ida M. McCall ('75), High School teacher; instructor of Latin at Knox College (23 years)
George Henry Perkins ('66), Educator, author, state biologist and geologist of Vermont; professor and dean, later acting president at the University of Vermont, Bennington, Vermont
Ellen Browning Scripps (pictured), Knox graduate, journalist and founder of the Scripps Newspaper Syndicate
John Van Ness Standish, Professor, dean, and president of Lombard College (41 years), Galesburg; benefactor of city and of Knox College
Thomas Rigney Willard ('66), Professor, dean, registrar and acting president of Knox College (46 years); later trustee of Knox (11 years)
1911
Frank Henry Burt ('86), President, Y.M.C.A. College, Chicago. Alumni trustee, Knox College, 1919-1922
Oliver Albert Harker, Jurist. Professor and dean, University of Illinois Law School; judge, Appellate Court, Second and Third Districts, Illinois
Thomas C. MacMillan, Historian, clerk, Northern Illinois District Court (24 years); former moderator, National Council of Congregational Churches; member, House and Senate, Illinois Legislature
James Matthew Maxon, M.A. Episcopalian priest; Bishop of Tennessee; later Chancellor, University of South, Sewanee, Tennessee
1909
William Frederick Bentley, Composer and Choir Director, Galesburg; director of the Knox Conservatory of Music for 51 years
John Y. Ewart ('81), Clergyman, Pittsburg, Kansas; author of religious tracts and articles
John Charles Richberg, Lawyer, Chicago
George Abeel Stout ('99), Mus.B. Faculty, Knox Conservatory; later, supervisor of Music, H.S., Spokane, Washington
Ida Tarbell, investigative journalist with McClure's Magazine
John Winter Thompson, Professor, organ, Knox Conservatory (47 years), and Conservatory director; author and composer
James D. Wyckoff ('56), Clergyman, author, evangelist for Illinois Home Missionary Society, Chicago
1908
Edgar Addison Bancroft ('78), Lawyer, author, trustee and benefactor of Knox; U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Clark Ezra Carr ('59), Lawyer, author, one of the first sponsors of Lincoln-for-president; trustee of Knox; U.S. Minister to Denmark; contributor to Knox Museum of Danish Artifacts
Alvirus Nelson Hitchcock, Clergyman, secretary for interior states of American Bd. Foreign Missions (37 years)
George Appleton Lawrence ('75), Lawyer, agriculturist, trustee and benefactor of Knox; also trustee of Park College, Missouri; established scholarships and prizes at Knox
1907
Malvina M. Bennett, Professor, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, 30 years; former instructor of public speaking at Knox College
William Carter, Clergyman, traveler, lecturer, New York City; later, chaplain, World War I, France
Charles Evans Hughes, Jurist, statesman, New York City; later candidate for President of the U.S.A. on the Republican ticket, 1916; Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, D.C.
George Frederick Kunz, Mining engineer, gem expert. Vice President, Tiffany's New York City
S.S. McClure (pictured), founder of McClure's Magazine that pioneered the field of investigative journalism
Robert Mather ('82), Lawyer, general counsel, Rock Island Railroad; trustee, Knox College; later chairman of the board, Westinghouse Electric, Chicago
John Sanburn Phillips ('82), Editor and publisher, Crowell Pub. Company; president, Phillips Publishing Company; later, editor, American Magazine, New York City
1906
Edward Payson Williams ('54) Lawyer, City Attorney, Galesburg
1905
J. Webster Bailey, Clergyman, Fort Wayne, Indiana
James Robert Smith, Clergyman, Quincy. Former Secretary, Congregational Building Society
1904
Thomas Gold Frost ('86), Lawyer, author, editor, New York City; trustee, Knox College; authority on constitutional law
S.H. Gale, Clergyman; superintendent, Home Mission Society Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
Charles H. Tainter, Clergyman; field secretary, Congregational Building Society, Chicago
1903
Lowell Mason McAfee, Educator, President, Park College; later Dean, Los Angeles Jr. College
Thomas Verner Moore, Clergyman, professor of Theology at the San Francisco Theological Seminary
William Lawrence Tennery, Clergyman, secretary, Western Branch, American Missionary Society, Chicago
1902
Duncan M. Buchanan ('86), Clergyman, Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. Later in Baltimore, Maryland
Walter Alison Edwards ('83), Editor and author; president, Throop Institute, Pasadena, California; former H.S. Teacher of Latin
1901
Stuart McAlpine Campbell ('88), Presbyterian Clergyman, Chicago; later in Galesburg; trustee, Knox
Edwin Stutely Carr ('82), Clergyman and author, Peoria
Hobart K. Painter, Clergyman, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Theodore Gerald Soares, Lecturer, Biblical Literature at Knox College; pastor Baptist Church, Galesburg; later professor of Theology, University of Chicago
John Wilson, lawyer who helped plan the Chicago Sanitary District
1900
Frederic Bancroft ('82), Historian; professor, Amherst; chief, U.S. Department State Library, Washington, D.C.; member literature staff, New York "Nation"
Milton E. Churchill ('77), Educator, Former Member Knox Faculty; Faculty, Blackburn College, Carlinville
Henry Lodge Estabrook, Attorney, Chicago; later in New York
Edward Dudley Kenna, Attorney, First Vice President and General Counsel, Santa Fe Railroad
Charles Emory Smith, Postmaster General, U.S.A.; former newspaper editor and U.S. Minister to Russia
William L. Steele, Superintendent of Schools, Galesburg, 1885-1918
Clarence Franklin Swift, Clergyman, Minneapolis, Minnesota; later at Fall River, Massachusetts
