Notable Alumni of

Ndabaningi Sithole 1920–2000

Zimbabwean politician, founder of ZANU

Frederic O. MacCartney 1864–1903

Unitarian minister and Massachusetts socialist legislator

Also attended: Grinnell College

Joseph Duffey 1932–2021

Academic, diplomat and anti-war activist

Also attended: Yale University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Marshall University

William G. Everson 1879–1954

US Army major general, Chief of National Guard Bureau

Also attended: Franklin College

Hiram F. Mather 1796–1868

Lawyer and politician from New York

Also attended: Yale University

Alphonso Wood 1810–1881

Botanist and author of 19th-century botany texts

Also attended: Dartmouth College

Henry Carter Adams 1851–1921

Economist and University of Michigan professor

Also attended: Grinnell College, Johns Hopkins University

William Greenough Thayer Shedd 1820–1894

Presbyterian theologian and Union Theological Seminary professor

Also attended: University of Vermont

John Alsop Paine 1840–1912

Minister, botanist, archaeologist and professor

Alfred Bloom 1926–2017

Shin Buddhism scholar

Also attended: Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania

William Jewett Tucker 1839–1926

9th President of Dartmouth College

Also attended: Dartmouth College

Jacob Abbott 1803–1879

Writer of children's books and biographies

Attended until 1824

Also attended: Bowdoin College

Child: Austin Abbott (New York University)

Child: Benjamin Vaughan Abbott (Harvard University, New York University)

E. Merrill Root 1895–1973

Poet and educator devoted to anti-communist causes

Also attended: Amherst College

Hiram Bingham II 1831–1908

Protestant missionary to Hawaii and Gilbert Islands

Also attended: Yale University

Father: Hiram Bingham I (Middlebury College)

Child: Hiram Bingham III (University of California-Berkeley, Yale University)

Charles Francis Potter 1885–1962

Unitarian minister, theologian and author

Also attended: Bucknell University, Brown University

Daniel Bliss 1823–1916

Missionary and founder of the American University of Beirut

Also attended: Amherst College

Miron Winslow 1789–1864

Missionary to Ceylon and lexicographer

Also attended: Middlebury College

Gardiner Spring 1785–1873

Pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church, New York

Also attended: Yale University

William Richards 1793–1847

Missionary and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Also attended: Williams College

Ilsley Boone 1879–1968

Founder of the American Sunbathing Association, publisher

Also attended: Brown University

Hubbard Winslow 1799–1864

Minister and author

Also attended: Yale University

Samuel Wolcott 1813–1886

Congregationalist minister, missionary and hymn writer

Also attended: Yale University

Child: Edward O. Wolcott (Yale University, Harvard University)

Edgar Chandler 1904–1988

Minister, navy chaplain and civil rights leader

Also attended: Boston University, Harvard University

George Washington Blagden 1802–1884

American clergyman and writer

Also attended: Yale University, Harvard University