List of The Dickey Club members
The Dickey Club, was a private social club at Harvard University, originally founded in 1851 as a chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.[1][2] Following are some of the notable members of The Dickey Club.
Academia
- James Barr Ames – 2nd Dean of Harvard Law School[3]: 127
- Wilder Dwight Bancroft – chemistry professor at Cornell University[3]: 145
- Arthur Pierce Butler – co-founder and headmaster of Morristown School[3]: 145
- Archibald Cary Coolidge – first director of the Harvard University Library from 1910 to 1928[3]: 144
- Charles Loring Jackson – organic chemist, professor, and chairman of the Division of Chemistry at Harvard University[3]: 127
- Edwin P. Seaver – superintendent of Boston Public Schools[3]: 125
- William Codman Sturgis – mycologist and dean of the School of Forestry at Colorado College[3]: 141
- Ezra Ripley Thayer – Dean of Harvard Law School[3]: 146
- Barrett Wendell – professor of English at Harvard University, known for writing a series of textbooks[3]: 135
- Justin Winsor – librarian, historian, first president of the American Library Association[3]: 123
- Francis Woodman – co-founder and headmaster of Morristown School[3]: 146
Architecture
- Walter Cook – architect with Babb, Cook & Willard[3]: 128
- Charles Allerton Coolidge – architect[3]: 138
- Bowdoin B. Crowninshield – naval architect who specialized in racing yachts[3]: 148
- William Winthrop Kent – architect[3]: 139
- Henry Chapman Mercer – tilemaker and designer of Fonthill, the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works and the Mercer Museum; curator of American and prehistoric archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania Museum[3]: 136
- Robert Swain Peabody – architect[3]: 126
- J. Pickering Putnam – architect[3]: 127
- Arthur Rotch – architect[3]: 130
- Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes – architect[3]: 149
- Richard Clipston Sturgis – architect[3]: 138
- Edmund M. Wheelwright – architect[3]: 134
- James Bosley Noel Wyatt – architect[3]: 129
Art
- Francis Brooks Chadwick – painter[3]: 129
- Frederic Crowninshield – painter[3]: 126
- Ralph Wormeley Curtis – painter and graphic artist[3]: 133
- Augustus C. Gurnee – socialite and art patron[3]: 135
- Edward Simmons – painter[3]: 132
- William A. Slater – art collector who established the Slater Memorial Museum[3]: 138
- Edward Perry Warren – art collector[3]: 140
- Charles Goddard Weld – art collector who made major contributions to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Peabody Essex Museum[3]: 137
Business
- Rodolphe L. Agassiz – polo player and chairman of the board of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company[4][5]
- Frederick Lothrop Ames – co-founder of General Electric, vice president of the Old Colony Railroad, and director of the Union Pacific Railroad[3]: 123
- William Henry Baldwin Jr. – president of the Long Island Rail Road[3]: 142
- August Belmont Jr. – finacier and head of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company[6][7][5]
- James Cunningham Bishop – banker and officer of the Welsbach Street Illuminating Company[3]: 149
- Frederic Adrian Delano – first vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and president of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, and the Wabash Railroad[3]: 142
- Amos Tuck French – member of the New York Stock Exchange and vice-president of the Manhattan Trust Company[3]: 142
- William A. Gaston – president of the Boston Elevated Railway and National Shawmut Bank[3]: 137
- Powers Hapgood – trade union organizer and Socialist Party leader[8]
- George Ward Holdrege – general manager Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company[3]: 128
- Thomas W. Lamont – vice president of First National Bank[5]
- George H. Mifflin – president of Houghton Mifflin[3]: 126
- J. P. Morgan Jr. – banker and finance executive[6][7][5]
- Henry T. Oxnard – founder and president of the American Beet Sugar Company[3]: 139
- Bradley Palmer – lawyer involved with the creation of Gillette Safety Razor Co., the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, and the United Fruit Company[3]: 146
- Frederick H. Rindge – real estate developer and founder of present-day Malibu, California[3]: 136
- Charles Robert Sanger – professor of chemistry at Harvard University[3]: 138
- George R. Sheldon – banker, finacier, and a leading force in the Trust Company of America[3]: 136
- James J. Storrow – partner of Lee, Higginson & Co.; president of General Motors Nash Motors; president of the Boy Scouts of America[3]: 142
- Hamilton McKown Twombly – co-founder of the American Sulphur Company, later the Union Sulphur Company; financial advisor to William Henry Vanderbilt[3]: 130
- August H. Vogel – vice-president of Pfister & Vogel[3]: 143
- Fiske Warren – president of the S. D. Warren Paper Co., developer of single-tax colonies, activist for Philippine independence, and tennis champion[3]: 142
- Grinnell Willis – textile merchant[3]: 129
- Robert Winsor – head of Kidder, Peabody & Company[3]: 138
Law
- Brooks Adams – lawyer, political scientist, and critic of capitalism[3]: 128
- Francis R. Appleton – lawyer with Robbins & Appleton[3]: 132
- Peter Townsend Barlow – New York City magistrate[3]: 136
- Edmund L. Baylies – lawyer; personal counsel to Cornelius Vanderbilt III; president of the Vanderbilt Hotel Corporation[3]: 136
- James Truesdell Kilbreth – lawyer, New York City Police justice, Court of Special Sessions justice, and Collector of the Port of New York[3]: 125
- William Loring – justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court[3]: 130
- James Arnold Lowell – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts[3]: 149
- John James McCook – corporate lawyer[3]: 128
- Peter B. Olney – New York County District Attorney, Referee in Bankruptcy, and attorney[3]: 125
- Francis Key Pendleton – justice of the Supreme Court of New York and Corporation Counsel of New York City[3]: 129
- Samuel D. Warren II – lawyer and co-founder of Nutter McClennen & Fish[3]: 133
- Francis Joseph Wing – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio[3]: 130
Literature and journalism
- John Jay Chapman – writer, poet, and essayist[3]: 141
- Julian Hawthorne – writer and journalist[9][7]
- William Randolph Hearst – newspaper publisher and United States House of Representatives[5][3]: 143
- Robert Herrick – novelist[3]: 148
- Edward Knoblock – playwright and novelist
- Edward Jackson Lowell – author of historical nonfiction and lawyer[3]: 127
- Edward Sandford Martin – chief editorial editor and literary editor of Life Magaziner[3]: 134
- William H. Peck – writer[3]: 123
- Henry Dwight Sedgwick – author[3]: 139
- William Roscoe Thayer – author and editor[3]: 138
- Bayard Tuckerman – biographer and historian[3]: 135
- Owen Wister – writer, known for The Virginian[10][5]
Medicine
- John Templeton Bowen – dermatologist and professor of dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital[3]: 136
- William A. Brooks – surgeon and academic[3]: 144
- Arthur Tracy Cabot – surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital; curator of the Harvard Dental Museum[3]: 130
- James Read Chadwick – gynecologist and medical librarian[3]: 126
- Ernest Amory Codman – surgeon[3]: 149
- John Green Curtis – physiologist with the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons[3]: 126
- Thomas Dwight – physician, anatomist, and professor of anatomy at Harvard Medical[3]: 126
- Robert Means Lawrence – physician at the Boston Dispensary and author[3]: 128
- Charles McBurney – surgeon-in-chief of the Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West)[3]: 126
- George Howard Monks – surgeon and academic known for inventing board games such as Chinese checkers, Basilinda, and Halma[3]: 132
- E. H. Nichols – surgeon and clinical professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School[3]: 143
- Morton Prince – physician who specialized in neurology and abnormal psychology[3]: 132
- Thomas Morgan Rotch – pediatric doctor, first full professor of pediatrics in the United States[3]: 129
Military
- Winthrop Astor Chanler – member of the Rough Riders in the Spanish–American War[3]: 142
- Martin Witherspoon Gary – brigadier general in the Confederate States Army and South Carolina Senate[3]: 124
- James R. Soley – Assistant Secretary of the Navy; head of the Office of Naval Records and Library; instructor at the United States Naval War College; head of the Department of English Studies, History, and Law at the United States Naval Academy[3]: 129
- Gordon Woodbury – Assistant Secretary of the Navy[3]: 144
Politics
- Charles Francis Adams III – United States Secretary of the Navy and Mayor of Quincy[3]: 145
- Frederick Hobbes Allen – Mayor of Pelham Manor, New York; member of the Democratic National Finance Committee; member of Woodrow Wilson's Peace Commission[3]: 137
- Frederick Lothrop Ames – Massachusetts Senate[3]: 123
- Larz Anderson – United States Ambassador to Japan; United States Minister to Belgium[3]: 145
- Robert Bacon – United States Secretary of State and United States Ambassador to France[7][5]
- William Bancroft – Massachusetts House of Representatives and Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts[3]: 135
- Franklin Bartlett – United States House of Representatives[3]: 128
- Isaac Bell Jr. – United States Ambassador to the Netherlands; cotton broker and investors in the Commercial Cable Company[3]: 127
- Perry Belmont – United States House of Representatives; United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain[3]: 130
- Franklin S. Billings – Governor of Vermont, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, and Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives[3]: 142
- Charles Sumner Bird – Progressive Party's candidate in the 1912 and 1913 Massachusetts gubernatorial elections[3]: 134
- Nathaniel B. Borden – United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate, and Massachusetts House of Representatives[3]: 127
- Lathrop Brown – United States House of Representatives
- Melville Bull – United States House of Representatives[3]: 134
- Edward Burnett – United States House of Representatives[3]: 129
- William A. Chanler – United States House of Representatives and New York State Assembly[3]: 147
- John Gardner Coolidge – United States Minister to Nicaragua[3]: 141
- John Sergeant Cram – president of the New York Public Service Commission; President of the Dock Board[3]: 130
- Grafton D. Cushing – Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives[3]: 142
- Dwight F. Davis – Governor-General of the Philippines and United States Assistant Secretary of War
- Charles S. Fairchild – United States Secretary of the Treasury and Attorney General of New York[3]: 125
- George H. Forster – New York State Assembly and New York State Senate[3]: 124
- Augustus P. Gardner – United States House of Representatives and Massachusetts Senate[3]: 143
- F. Norton Goddard – political activist, founder of the Civic Club and the Anti-Policy Society[3]: 139
- Edward D. Hayden – United States House of Representatives and Massachusetts House of Representatives[3]: 124
- Archibald M. Howe – member of the Common Council in Cambridge, Massachusetts; private secretary to congressman Henry Lillie Pierce; National Party vice-presidential candidate[3]: 128
- Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. – U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and 1st Chair of the United States Maritime Commission[11]
- Henry W. Keyes – Governor of New Hampshire, United States Senate, New Hampshire Senate, and New Hampshire House of Representatives.[3]: 144
- John E. Leonard – United States House of Representatives and associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court[3]: 127
- Robert Todd Lincoln – United States Secretary of War and Minister to the United Kingdom[7][5]
- Henry Cabot Lodge – United States Senate and United States House of Representatives[7][3]: 129
- John D. Long – United States Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Massachusetts, and United States House of Representatives[5]
- Nicholas Longworth – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives[5][3]: 126
- George H. Lyman – Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston and chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party[3]: 131
- Charles MacVeagh – United States Ambassador to Japan[3]: 138
- George Von L. Meyer – United States Secretary of the Navy, United States Postmaster General, U.S. ambassidor to Russia, United States Ambassidor to Italy, and Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives[5]
- Thomas Mott Osborne – mayor of Auburn, New York; New York Public Service Commission; Warden of Sing Sing; commander of Portsmouth Naval Prison[3]: 141
- Thomas Nelson Perkins – member of the Paris Peace Conference and the Allied Reparations Committee[3]: 148
- Regis Henri Post – Governor of Puerto Rico and member of the New York State Assembly[3]: 148
- Franklin D. Roosevelt – President of the United States[12]
- Theodore Roosevelt – President of the United States[13][7][5]
- Theodore Roosevelt Jr. – Governor-General of the Philippines, Governor of Puerto Rico, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and New York State Assembly[14]
- William E. Russell – Governor of Massachusetts[3]: 134
- Leverett Saltonstall – United States Senate and Governor of Massachusetts[3]: 126
- John Simpkins – United States House of Representatives[3]: 142
- Charles F. Sprague – United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate, Massachusetts House of Representatives[3]: 136
- Thomas Chandler Thacher – United States House of Representatives[3]: 139
- Charles W. Upham – United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts House of Representatives, and mayor of Salem, Massachusetts[3]: 123
- Charles G. Washburn – United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate, Massachusetts House of Representatives[3]: 137
- John D. Washburn – Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland[3]: 123
- George S. Weed – New York State Assembly[3]: 142
- Samuel Winslow – United States House of Representatives[3]: 142
Religion
- Robert Codman – bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine[3]: 139
- Samuel A. Eliot – Unitarian minister and secretary of the American Unitarian Association[3]: 141
- Francis Greenwood Peabody – Unitarian minister and theology professor at Harvard University[3]: 127
Science
- Outram Bangs – zoologist and urator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology[3]: 141
- Walter Deane – botanist, ornithologist, and curator of William Brewster's ornithological museum[3]: 128
- Lucius Lee Hubbard – State Geologist of Michigan[3]: 130
- Percival Lowell – mathematician and astronomer who founded the Lowell Observatory[3]: 133
- Clarence Bloomfield Moore – archaeologist[3]: 131
- John Thayer – amateur ornithologist[3]: 142
Sports
- George C. Adams – head coach of the Harvard University football program[3]: 142
- Bill Annan – professional baseball player and umpire[3]: 134
- Raymond Rodgers Belmont – polo player[3]: 143
- Seward Cary – polo player[3]: 143
- John Elliot Cowdin – polo player[3]: 136
- Joshua Crane – four time U.S. court tennis champion; played in the finals of the 1904 U.S. Open Polo Championship[3]: 147
- Francis Boardman Crowninshield – yachtsman[3]: 148
- Arthur Cumnock – college football player selected for the first All-America team in 1889[3]: 148
- Woodbury Kane – yachtsman; served on the Columbia in the 1899 America's Cup race[3]: 139
- Foxhall P. Keene – gold medalist in Polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics; semifinalist at the 1883 U.S. National Championships for tennis[3]: 149
- James P. Lee – college football player on the 1889 All-America college football team[3]: 149
- Herbert Leeds – amateur golfer, competative yatchsman, and golf course architect[3]: 134
- Gerrit Smith Miller – founder of Oneida Football Club, known as "the father of football in the United States"; member of the New York State Assembly[3]: 128
- George B. Morison – sportsman, president of the Boston Athletic Association[3]: 140
- Marshall Newell – college football player and coach[15]
- Sumner Paine – shooter who won a gold and silver medal in the 1896 Summer Olympics[3]: 125
- Herbert M. Sears – yachtsman, commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club, owner of Constellation[3]: 147
- Richard Sears – tennis player, seven-time winner of the US National Championships singles[3]: 140
- Quincy Shaw – tennis player, winner of the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships in 1887 and 1890[3]: 148
- Howard Taylor – tennis player, NCAA singles and doubles champion in 1883, winner of the 1889 U.S. National Championships men's doubles[3]: 143
- Fred Thayer – baseball manager who invented the catcher's mask[3]: 135
- Walter Van Rensselaer Berry – tennis player and judge at the International Mixed Tribunal of Cairo, Egypt[3]: 138
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