USMA Graduates Connected to Mathematics

Listed by Cullum Number

Class of 1805

9      William McRee
10    Joseph G. Totten   

Class of  1806

15    Alden Partridge
16    Charles Gratiot
17    Eleazer Derby Wood
18    William Partridge

Class of 1808   

33    Sylvanus Thayer

Class of 1809

        Jonathan Henry Williams, x1809

Class of 1811

53    Alexander J. Williams
58    James D. Cobb.         Prof. at Franklin College, Holly Springs, Mississippi, 1854.

Class of 1813

90    George Trescott

Class of 1814

99    John Wright             (p. 9 of my library notebook)

Class of 1815:

133    Abraham Wendell
151    Wolvert E. Williams
153    John Alexander Webber, son of Hollis Professor and later President of Harvard.
157    Charles Davies
161    Augustus Louis Roumfort
172    William Gibbbs McNeill. See bio.
177    Ethan Allen Hitchcock. See bio.

Class of 1816:

Long

Class of 1817:

175    Constant Mathieu Eakin           (Taught at USMA. See Euclid 1810 in AAR).

Class of 1818:

180    Richard Delafield
182    S. Stanhope Smith
183    Horace Webster
195    Joseph Strong

Class of 1819:

203    William A. Eliason.
206    Edward Deering Mansfield
210    Zebina J. D. Kinsley
214    George Washington Whistler. See bio.

Class of 1820:

232    Stephen Tuttle
234    Thomas S. Sudler
235    William H. Bell

Class of 1821

262    Edward H. Courtenay
263    Clark Burdine
265    William Wayne Wells
268    Edward C. Ross
270    David Wallace

Class of 1822

303    Henry H. Gird

Class of 1823:

326    Alfred Mordecai
327    George Sears Green
331    Lucien Bonapart Webster
 

Class of 1824:

361    Dennis Hart Mahan
362    John W. A. Smith
363    Robert Parker Parrott
369    George W. Long

Class of 1825:

392    Alexander Dallas Bache
393    Peter McMartin
394    Alexander H. Bowman
395    Thompson S. Brown
398    Raphael C. Smead
402    William Fenn Hopkins, taught elsewhere and at USNA.
405    Matthew Jouett Williams

Class of 1826:

429    William H. C. Bartlett
430    Thomas S. Twiss
431    William Bryant                                                Taught as cadet.
432    Thomas Jefferson Cram
449    Martin P. Parks, taught elsewhere.
464    Amos B. Eaton
467    Silas Casey. Calculus and quaternions.

Class of 1827

470    Ebenezer S. Sibley.                                            Taught as cadet. First in class.
500    Washington Hood

Class of 1828

508    Albert Ensign Church
511    Robert E. Temple
517    John F. Lane

Class of 1829:

541    Charles Mason                                                    Taught as cadet. First in class.
542    Robert E. Lee
543    William Henry Harford
546    Caraninus Putnam Buckingham
547    Joseph Smith Bryce
549    Charles William Hackley
550    Miner Knowlton
555    O. McKnight Mitchel
574    James Clark

Class of 1930:

589    Walter S. Chandler
591    William Nelson Pendelton
593    Thomas Jefferson Lee
602    Albert Taylor Bledsoe
609    Meriwether L. Clark

Class of 1831:

629    Roswell Park
631    James Allen
632    Henry E. Prentiss
633    Albert Miller Lea
634    Richard H. Peyton
635    William A. Norton
636    George W.Turner
637    Samuel C. Ridgely
638    Samuel H. Miller
639    George H. Talcott                                                Cadet instructor

Class of 1831:

640    Jacob Ammen
653    Bradford R. Alden
660    Charles Whittlesey.                                             See bio.
663    Robert Percy Smith
664    Benjamin S. Ewell
665    George W. Cass                                                    Cadet instructor

Class of 1832:

Class of 1833:

708    John G. Barnard . . . showed remarkable mathematical talents (p. 533).
709    George Washington Cullum
711    Francis Henney Smith
712    William Henry Sidell
715    William Wallace Smith Bliss
726    Alexander Eakin Shiras
728    Benjamin Alvord . . . author of several mathematical papers (p. 554).
754    Robert T. P. Allen
755    James Duncan

Class of 1834:

779    Richard Somers Smith, Professor of Mathematics, USNA.     h

Class of 1835:

794    Horace Brooks, 1836-1839.    h
807    Weightman Key Hanson
816    Herman Haupt

Class of 1836:

849    Samuel J. Bransford
863    Henry Hayes Lockwood (taught at USNA)
893    Edwin W. Morgan

Class of 1837:

899    E. Parker Scammon, taught elsewhere.
901    Israel Vogdes
902    Thomas Williams
913    George Taylor
920    John M. Harvie
931    Samuel D. J. Moore

Class of 1838:

949    Isaac S. K. Reeves
951    William B. Blair

Class of 1839:

986    Isaac Ingalls Stevens
990    Henry L. Smith
991    Michael S. Culbertson
993    Franklin D. Callender

Class of 1840:

Class of 1841:


1089    Claudius Wistar Sears
1092    Alfred Sully
1111    Eustice
1116    Theodore T. S. Laidley (papers at Clements Library in Ann Arbor)

Class of 1842:

1122    Alexander Peter Stewart
1138    Daniel Harvey Hill

Class of 1843:

1170    John H. Greeland, Jr.
1172    Isaac Ferdinand Quinby
1187    Ulysses Simpson Grant

Class of 1844:

1206    William G. Peck
1210    Asher Robbins Eddy
1213    Thomas Jefferson Curd

Class of 1845:

1234    William Farrar Smith
1241    Henry Coppee
1255    Edmund Kirby Smith

Class of 1846:

1279    Jesse Lee Reno
1288    T. J. "Stonewall" Jackson

Class of 1847:

1342    Daniel M. Beltzhoover

Class of 1848:

1369    William P. Trowbridge

Class of 1849:

1414    Delavan Duane Perkins
1415    Absalom Baird
1417    Milton Cogswell

Class of 1850:

1451    Gouverneur Kemble Warren
1465    John A. Mebane
1472    Robert Johnson

Class of 1851:

1497    William Thomas Welcker
1499    James Thompson
1506    Alexander J. Perry

Class of 1852:

1548    James Watts Robinson.         Textbook author.

Class of 1853:

1581    Joshua W. Sill
1586    Matthew Marsh Blunt
1594    William P. Terrill

Class of 1854:

1634    Oliver Otis Howard
1635    Thomas J. Treadwill
1641    Charles G. Rogers
1655    Abner Smead

Class of 1855:

1681    Junius B. Wheeler
1689    Alexander Stewart Webb
1691    Francis A. Shoup

Class of 1856:

1718    Herbert Austin Hascall

Class of 1857:

1762    Edward Porter Alexander    h
1769    George Amos Kensel    h
1780    Edward Raynsford Warner     h

Class of 1858:

Class of 1859:

1826    Samuel H. Lockett    h

Class of 1860:

1853    Benjamin Sloan    h
1854    James M. Whittemore    h
1855    Alanson M. Randol    h
1861    Edward R. Hopkins    h
1867    Alfred T. Smith

Class of May 1861

1893    Llewellyn Griffith Hoxton
1896    Nathaniel Rives Chambliss
1898    John Isaac Rodgers
1899    Samuel N. Benjamin
1901    John Whitney Barlow
1909    William Anthony Elderkin
1936    Clarence Derrick

Class of June 1861:

1938    Thomas Carr Bradford
1941    Alfred Mordecai, the son.
1943    Stephen Carr Lyford
1954    Joseph B. Campbell    h

Class of 1862:

1966    Michie
1967    Ranald S. Mackenzie    h
1980    Tully McCrea

Class of 1863:

1995    John Rogers Meigs
1996    Peter Smith Michie

Class of 1864:

2020    Garrett J. Lydecker    h
2021    Arthur H. Burnham    h

Class of 1865:

2049    A. Macomb Miller    h
2059    James C. Post
2066    John P. Story

Class of 1866:

2116    James Mercur
2117    Charles E. L. B. Davis
2120    George Montague Wheeler
2125    Frank Soule, Jr.
2129    Hiero B. Herr

Class of 1867:

2184    Ephriam Thomas Carrol Richmond

Class of 1868:

2220    J. G. D. Knight
2222    Edgar Wales Bass, Department Head

Class of 1869:

2273    Eric Bergland
2282    Arthur Sherbourne Hardy

Class of 1870:

2314    Edward S. Holden [Prof. Math. U.S. Navy]
2315    Carl. F. Palfrey
2327    Clarence A. Postley

Class of 1871:

2378    Charles C. Morrison
2382    Wallace Mott

Class of 1872:

2413    Stanhope E. Blunt

Class of 1873:

2471    Thomas N. Bailey
2472    John A. Lundeen

Class of 1874:

2515    John T. Honeycutt
2516    George L. Anderson
2522    Wright P. Edgerton
2527    Otis

Class of 1875:

None

Class of 1876:

2597    William Crozier
2598    Henry H. Ludlow
2600    William M. Mecalfe
2604    Samuel Richard Douglas

Class of 1877:

2646    William Brandon Gordon, Prof Physics USMA.
2649    Solon P. Massey
2689    Charles A. Bradley, HS teacher

Class of 1878

None

Class of 1879

2765    William W. Gibson
2767    Frank S. Harlow
2768    James E. Runcie
2773    Edmund Dickerson Smith
2775    Luther S. Welborn
2787    Noyes

Class of 1880:

2835    Frank H. Peck

Class of 1881:

2901    Henry Clay Hodges, Jr.
2917    Lyman Hall

Class of 1882

2938    Harry Coupland Benson    h
2939    Ormond M. Lissak    h
2940    George Franklin Barney

Class of 1883

2975    Samuel Diggs Freeman    h
2980    Alfred Beury Jackson    h

Class of 1884

3026    Harry Taylor    h

Class of 1885

3063    Arthur F. Curtis
3066    John Davenport Barrette
3074    Willard Ames Holbrook
3078    Frank Atwood Cook
3086    Daniel Bradford Devore

Class of 1886

3104    Robert Lincoln Hirst
3106    Frank McIntyre

Class of 1887

3206    John Alexander Harman
3261    Crisman

Class of 1888

3244    Charles Day Palmer
3246    John Sheridan Winn
3261    Edward Roberts Chrisman

Class of 1889

3306    Charles Baldwin Hagadorn

Class of 1890

3336    William Orlando Johnson
3366    John Henry Wholley
3380    Joseph Cincinnatus Fox

Class of 1891:

3387     Charles Patton Echols, Department Head

Class of 1892

3451    James Postell Jervey
3453    George Blakely
3454    Jay E. Hoffer
3457    Frank W. Coe

Class of 1893

3517    William Mackey Cruikshank
3519    John Hodgen Rice
3523    David Matson King

Class of 1894

3565    William Perry Pence
3568    John Warren Joyes
3572    Charles William Castle
3575    George French Hamilton
3578    Alston Hamilton
3586    Hamilton Smith Hawkins

Class of 1895

3623    Harry Howard Stout
3627    Thales Lucius Ames
3631    Joseph Wheeler, Jr.
3633    Brooke Payne
3634    Mortimer Osborne Bigelow

Class of 1896

3672    Robert Emmet Callan
3674    Samuel Victor McClure
3679    Clarence Henry McNeil
3681    John Buffalo Christian
3684    James William Hinkley, Jr.
3707    Robert Morris Brookfield

Class of 1897

3747    Frederick William Alstaetter
3751    John Kirkpartrick Moore
3752    Francis Horton Pope
3753    Edwin Oliver Sarratt
3758    George Edward Mitchell
3764    Claude Hamilton Miller

Class of 1898       

3812    Lytle Brown
3817    John Edmondson Stephens

Class of 1899

3871    Lewis Hathaway Rand
3881    Fred Hayes Gallup
3889    Leon Benjamin Kromer

Class of 1900

3940    George Bigelow Pillsbury
3949    Joseph Augustus Baer
3950    Frank Outhouse Whitlock
3963    Archibald Henry Sunderland

 

 

 

The Class of 1900 has Cullum numbers 3940 to 3993.  Above we have everyone connected to mathematics with a Cullum number less than 4000.

The "Genealogical Succession" information from the 2000 Register of Graduates for Cullum numbers less than 4000 is included. There are likely additions and corrections in the 2002 edition.

Class of 1903

4122    Douglas MacArthur
4146    Turtle   

Class of 1904

4215    Charles Roberts Pettis

4434    Mitchell  

 

Class of 1907

4530    Somers
4531    James Gordon Steese

4557    Marley

4572    MacLachlan   

4645    George Rodman Goetals

4706    Deans

Class of 1908

4736    Lawrence Campbell Ricker, High School Teacher

Class of 1909

4778    James Leo Dunsworth, High School Teacher
4834    William Allison Reed, High School Teacher

Class of 1910

4844    Ivens Jones
John Julius Waterman

Class of 1911

4937    John Wesley Stewart
4969    James Blanchard Crawford

Class of 1913

5115 Gordon R. Young

Class of 1914

5216    Allen Parker Cowgill, PhD Nebraska 1935, Taught at Syracuse 1939-1947. Could this be the first USMA grad with a PhD in mathematics?
5271    James Patrick Hogan, NYMA 1958-1950.

Class of 1915

5373   Dwight David Eisenhower

Class of 1916

4595    Robert Allen Sharrer, USMA 17 Oct 1940 to 13 Oct 1946.

5582    Barrington Lockhart Flanigen, U. Georgia.

Class of April 1917

5602    Harris Jones.
5652    Lincoln Ferris Daniels, San Jose State College.
5765    Philip Stevens Day, USMA July 1943 to April 1946.

5811    Rudolph Daniel Delehanty

Class of 1918

6181    DeWitt Hicks, High School teacher 1920-1932.
6282    Robert Miller Montague, USMA 1 July 1939 to 15 June 1941

6312    Richard Tobin Bennison

Class of 1920

6541    Francis Hudson Oxx, USMA 25 July 1936 to 30 June 1940.
6545    William Weston Bessell, Jr.
6649    Edgar Allen Gilbert, Jr.