List of presidents of Washington & Jefferson College: Difference between revisions

The Office of the President is located in [[McMillan Hall]], which is the oldest building on campus, dating to 1793.<ref name=mcmillanarchive>{{Cite web| title = McMillan Hall | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]]| publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/cdm4/build_mcmillan.php|accessdateaccess-date=2010-06-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| title = Washington & Jefferson College Style Guide| work = | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date =2005-11-07| url = http://www.washjeff.edu/uploadedFiles/Academic_Affairs/Technology/a._ITS_Department/Academic_Technology/Teaching_with_Technology/Office%20of%20Communication%20Style%20Guide.pdf| format = PDF| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-05-07|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527131245/http://www.washjeff.edu/uploadedFiles/Academic_Affairs/Technology/a._ITS_Department/Academic_Technology/Teaching_with_Technology/Office%20of%20Communication%20Style%20Guide.pdf|archivedatearchive-date=May 27, 2010}}</ref> Prior to 1912, the Office of the President was located in [[Old Main (Washington & Jefferson College)|Old Main]], taking the two rooms on either side of that building's main entrance.<ref name=mcmillanarchive /> The [[President's House (Washington & Jefferson College)|President's House]] is a 17-room [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] mansion on East Wheeling Street between the [[U. Grant Miller Library]] and [[The Burnett Center]].<ref name=campusmap>{{Cite map|publisher=Office of Communications, Washington & Jefferson College |title=Washington & Jefferson College Campus Map |url=http://www.washjeff.edu/uploadedFiles/External_Relations/About_WandJ/Visit_Us/Getting_Here/CampusMap%283%29.pdf |edition=April 2010 |format=PDF |accessdateaccess-date=2010-05-16 |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708015222/http://www.washjeff.edu/uploadedFiles/External_Relations/About_WandJ/Visit_Us/Getting_Here/CampusMap%283%29.pdf |archivedatearchive-date=July 8, 2011 |deadurl=yes |dfurl-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=victorian>{{Cite web| title = Victorian houses (Admissions House and President's House)| work = Historic Campus Architecture Project| publisher = [[Council of Independent Colleges]]| url = http://hcap.artstor.org/cgi-bin/library?a=d&d=p1911| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-05-16| deadurlurl-status = yesdead| archiveurlarchive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110725193400/http://hcap.artstor.org/cgi-bin/library?a=d&d=p1911| archivedatearchive-date = 2011-07-25| df = }}</ref> It was built in 1892 by the [[Duncan & Miller Glass Company|Duncan family]] and is an archetypical [[Queen Anne style architecture|Queen Anne Victorian]] style building, with ornate "[[Gingerbread (architecture)|gingerbread]]" details, stained and beveled glass, recessed doors and windows, and louvered wooden shutters.<ref name=victorian />

The president is the [[chief executive officer]] of the college.<ref>{{Cite web| title = W&J: President Tori Haring-Smith | work = | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| url = http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=1352&menu_id=378&crumb=649&id=89| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-07-05|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708233923/http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=1352&menu_id=378&crumb=649&id=89|archivedatearchive-date=July 8, 2011}}</ref> According to the [[s:Washington & Jefferson College Charter|Washington & Jefferson College Charter]], the president of the college is elected by the Board of Trustees, who can also remove him or her [[At-will employment|at will]].<ref name=charters>Coleman 1956 pp. 214–220</ref> The person holding this office must be an [[Citizenship in the United States|American citizen]] and is also considered to be a member of the teaching faculty.<ref name=charters /> No one may be excluded from holding the presidency on "account of the religious sect or denomination to which he belongs or adheres, provided he shall demean himself in a soberly, orderly manner, and conform to the lawful rules and regulations of the college."<ref name=charters />

Two men, [[Andrew Wylie (college president)|Andrew Wylie]] and [[Matthew Brown (college president)|Matthew Brown]], each served as president of both Jefferson College and Washington College. Several early presidents of Jefferson College had close ties to John McMillan, including his son-in-law [[John Watson (college president)|John Watson]] and his nephew [[William McMillan (college president)|William McMillan]].<ref name=mcmillandynasty>Coleman 1956 p. 60</ref> [[James Dunlap]] was one of McMillan's early students.<ref name=mcmillandynasty /> Other Jefferson College presidents held strong bonds with [[Matthew Brown (college president)|Matthew Brown]], including his son [[Alexander Blaine Brown]] and his protégé and son-in-law [[David Hunter Riddle]].<ref name=blainebrown /><ref>Coleman 1956 pp. 100–101</ref> [[James I. Brownson]], who was a long-time pastor at the [[First Presbyterian Church (Washington, Pennsylvania)|First Presbyterian Church]], served two separate terms as president ''[[pro tempore]]'', once for Washington College and later for Washington & Jefferson College.<ref>{{Cite news| title = Fifty Years a Minister; The Reverend J.I. Brownson's Golden Jubilee to be Celebrated| work = [[The New York Times]]|date = 1891-11-25 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1891/11/25/archives/fifty-years-a-minister-the-rev-dr-ji-brownsons-golden-jubilee-to-be.html |accessdateaccess-date =2010-06-02 }}</ref> During World War II, [[Ralph Cooper Hutchison]] simultaneously served as president of the college and as Director of Civilian Defense for the [[Pennsylvania|Commonwealth of Pennsylvania]].<ref name=ralphcooper /> [[Boyd Crumrine Patterson]] was the most recent Washington & Jefferson alumnus to serve as president. In 2005, [[Tori Haring-Smith]] became the first woman to serve as president.

Washington & Jefferson College originates from three log cabin colleges established by John McMillan, Thaddeus Dod, and Joseph Smith, Presbyterian missionaries to the [[American frontier]] in the 1780s.<ref name=banners>Coleman 1956 pp. 4–7</ref> John McMillan came to present-day Washington County in 1775 and built his college in 1780 near his church in [[Chartiers Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania|Chartiers]], where he taught a mixture of college-level students and elementary students.<ref name=banners /> Thaddeus Dod built his college in [[Amwell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania|Lower Ten Mile]] in 1781, teaching mathematics and the [[classics]].<ref name=wickersham>{{Cite book| last = Wickersham| first = James| title = A History of Education in Pennsylvania, Private and Public, Elementary and Higher| publisher = Inquirer Publishing Company| year = 1886| location = Lancaster, Pennsylvania| pages = 400–401[https://archive.org/details/ahistoryeducati00wickgoog/page/n432 400]–401| url = https://booksarchive.google.comorg/books?id=B6sAAAAAYAAJdetails/ahistoryeducati00wickgoog}}</ref> Joseph Smith taught classical studies in his college, called "The Study" at [[Buffalo Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania|Buffalo]].<ref name=wickersham />

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| align="center" | <ref>{{Cite web| title = John Watson (1802–1802) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,21| accessdateaccess-date =2010-05-31 }}</ref>

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title = James Dunlap (1803–1811) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,19| accessdateaccess-date =2010-05-31 }}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:Andrew Wylie (college president)IU.jpg|Andrew Wylie60px]]

| align="center" data-sort-value="April 1, 1816"|April 1816

| align="center" |<ref name=wyliealum>{{Cite book| last = Eaton | first = Samuel John Mills |author2=Woods, Henry | title = Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College | publisher = G.H. Buchanan and Company| year = 1902 | location=Philadelphia| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ|accessdateaccess-date=2010-04-04|oclc=2379959|chapter=Wylie, Andrew|chapterurlchapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA23|page=23}}</ref><ref name=wyliejeff>{{Cite web| title = Andrew Wylie (1812–1816) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,14| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-05-31| archive-date = 2019-12-09| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191209064546/http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?%2Fp4019coll8%2C14| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name=wyliewash>{{Cite web| title =Andrew Wylie (1817–1828) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,9| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02}}</ref>

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title = William McMillan (1817–1822)| work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]]| publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,24| accessdateaccess-date =2010-05-31 }}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:Matthew Brown (college president)1776.jpg|Matthew Brown60px]]

| align="center" |<ref name=brownjeff>{{Cite web| title = Matthew Brown (1822–1845) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,38| accessdateaccess-date =2010-05-31 }}</ref><ref name=brownwash>{{Cite web| title = Matthew Brown (1806–1817) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url =http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,13| accessdateaccess-date =2010-05-31 }}</ref><ref name=list1>Coleman 1956 p. 230</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:Robert Jefferson Breckinridge - circle.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title =Robert J. Breckinridge (1845–1847) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,23| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-05-31}}</ref><ref name=banners143-149>Coleman 1956 pp. 143–149</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:Alexander Blaine Brown 1808.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" data-sort-value="August 1, 1856"|August 1856

| align="center" |<ref name=blainebrown>{{Cite web| title = Alexander B. Brown (1847–1856) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,12| accessdateaccess-date =2010-05-31 }}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:Joseph Alden.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref name=list1 /><ref>{{Cite web| title = Joseph Alden (1857–1862) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url =http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,17| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-05-31}}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:David Hunter Riddle 1805.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref name=list1 /><ref>{{Cite web| title = David H. Riddle (1862–Union of the Colleges) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,27| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-05-31}}</ref>

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| align="center" |[[File:Matthew Brown (college president)1776.jpg|Matthew Brown60px]]

| align="center" |[[File:Andrew Wylie (college president)IU.jpg|Andrew Wylie60px]]

| align="center" |[[File:David Elliott (college president)1799.jpg|David Elliott60px]]

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title = David Elliott (1830–1831)| work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]]| publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,15| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite webencyclopedia| title = David Elliott (1787–1874)| workencyclopedia = Encyclopedia Dicksonia| publisher = [[Dickinson College]] – Archives and Special Collections| url = http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/e/ed_elliottD.htm| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02| deadurlurl-status = yesdead| archiveurlarchive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110605003725/http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/e/ed_elliottD.htm| archivedatearchive-date = 2011-06-05| df = }}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:David McConaughy (college president)1775.jpg|David McConaughy60px]]

| align="center" |<ref name=list1 /><ref>{{Cite web| title = David McConaughy (1831–1849)| work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,16| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02}}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:James Clark (college president)1812.jpg|James Clark60px]]

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title = James Clark (1850–1852)| work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,18| accessdateaccess-date =2010-06-02 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| last = Symmes| first = Frank Rosebrook | title = History of the Old Tennent Church| edition = 2| publisher = G.W. Burroughs| year = 1904| location = Cranberry, New Jersey| page = 132| chapter = Chapter XIII – Reverend James Clark, D.D. 1837–1839| chapterurlchapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=moMsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA132 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=moMsAAAAYAAJ}}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:James I. Brownson 2.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref name=brownsonwash>{{Cite web| title = James I. Brownson (Pro Tem. 1852–1853)| work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url =http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,29| accessdateaccess-date =2010-06-02 }}</ref><ref name=brownsonjeff>{{Cite web| title = James I. Brownson (Pro Tem. 1870)| work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,25| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02}}</ref><ref name=brownsonalum>{{Cite book| last = Eaton | first = Samuel John Mills |author2=Woods, Henry | title = Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College | publisher = G.H. Buchanan and Company| year = 1902 | location=Philadelphia| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ|accessdateaccess-date=2010-04-04|oclc=2379959|chapter=Brownson, James Irwin|chapterurlchapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA311|page=311}}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:John W. Scott (college president)1807.jpg|John W. Scott60px]]

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title = John W. Scott (1852-Union of the Colleges) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,20| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02}}</ref>

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| align="center" |[[File:Jonathan Edwards (Washington & Jefferson College)1817.jpg|Jonathan Edwards60px]]

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title = Jonathan Edwards (1866–1869) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,31| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02}}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:Samuel J. Wilson 1828.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title = Samuel J. Wilson (Pro Tem. 1869) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url =http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,36| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02}}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:James I. Brownson 2.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |[[File:George P. HaysHayes (college president)1838.jpg|George P. Hays60px]]

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title = George P. Hays (1870–1881) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,28| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02}}</ref><ref name=list2>Coleman 1956 p. 231</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:James D. Moffat 1846.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref name=list2 /><ref>{{Cite web| title = James D. Moffat (1881–1915)| work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]]| publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,32| accessdatearchive-url = https://archive.today/20120718065317/http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,32| url-status = dead| archive-date = July 18, 2012| access-date = 2010-06-02}}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:Frederick W. Hinitt 1866-Centre.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title = Frederick W. Hinitt (Pro Tem. 1915–1918)| work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]]| publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url =http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,40| accessdateaccess-date =2010-06-02 }}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:William E. Slemmons.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" data-sort-value="May 1, 1918"|JuneMay 19191918

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title = William E. Slemmons (Pro Tem. 1918–1919) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url =http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,37| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02}}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:Samuel Charles Black 1869 W&J.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref name=list2 /><ref>{{Cite web| title = Samuel Charles Black (1919–1921) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]]| publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url =http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,35| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02}}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:Simon StrousseStrause Baker 1866.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title = Simon Strousse Baker (1922–1931)| work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]]| publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,34| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02| archive-url = https://archive.today/20240524213931/https://www.webcitation.org/5okj4MAyE?url=http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php%3FCISOROOT=/p4019coll8&CISOPTR=34| archive-date = 2024-05-24| url-status = dead}}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:Ralph Cooper Hutchison in 1898.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref name=ralphcooper>{{Cite web| title = Ralph Cooper Hutchison (1931–1945)| work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]]| publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,33| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02| archive-date = 2019-12-16| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191216011352/http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?%2Fp4019coll8%2C33| url-status = dead}}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:James Herbert Case, Jr1906.jpg|60px]]

| title =James Herbert Case, Jr. (1946–1949) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]]| publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url =http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,30| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02}}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:Boyd Crumrine Patterson 1902.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title =Boyd Crumrine Patterson (1950–1970) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]]| publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url =http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,26| accessdateaccess-date = 2010-06-02}}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:Howard Jerome Burnett.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web| title = Howard Jerome Burnett (1970–1998) | work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]] | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College| date = 2003-09-04| url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,39| accessdateaccess-date =2010-06-02 }}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:Brian C. Mitchell.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web|title = Brian C. Mitchell (1998–2004)|work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]]|publisher = Washington & Jefferson College|date = 2003-09-04|url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,41|archive-url accessdate= https://archive.today/20120717175424/http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,41|url-status = dead|archive-date = July 17, 2012|access-date = 2010-06-02 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr. Brian C. Mitchell Named President of Washington and Jefferson College |work= |publisher=Washington & Jefferson College |date=July 13, 1998 |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990129033437/http://www.washjeff.edu/news/mitchell.htm |url=http://www.washjeff.edu/news/mitchell.htm |archivedatearchive-date=January 29, 1999 |accessdateaccess-date=2010-06-02 |deadurl=yes |dfurl-status=dead }}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:G. Andrew Rembert.jpg|60px]]

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web|title = G. Andrew Rembert (Pro Tem. 2004 )|work = [[U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives]]|publisher = Washington & Jefferson College|date = 2003-09-04|url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,44| accessdateaccess-date =2010-06-02 }}</ref>

|[[Tori {{sortname|Tori|Haring-Smith]]}}

| align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web|title=W&J Names Tori Haring-Smith, Ph.D. 12th President |work=W&J News |publisher=Washington & Jefferson College |date=2004-10-12 |archivedatearchive-date=2004-12-16 |url=http://www.washjeff.edu/News_Detail.asp?NewsID=274 |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041216063744/http://www.washjeff.edu/News_Detail.asp?NewsID=274 |accessdateaccess-date=2010-06-02 |deadurl=yes |dfurl-status=dead }}</ref>

| align="center" |[[File:John C. Knapp Interview.png|60px]]

| align="center" |presentJune 30, 2024

*{{Cite book| last =Coleman | first =Helen Turnbull Waite| title = Banners in the Wilderness: The Early Years of Washington and Jefferson College| publisher = University of Pittsburgh Press| year= 1956| url = https://archive.org/details/bannersinthewild012852mbp| oclc = 2191890|pages=230–231[https://archive.org/details/bannersinthewild012852mbp/page/n283 230]–231}}

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