William Preston Few information

William Preston Few (December 29, 1867 – October 16, 1940) was the first president of Duke University and the fifth president of its predecessor, Trinity...

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Bishop of the United Methodist Church, North Alabama Conference William Preston Few, first and longest serving president of Duke University and the fifth...

Caliche John Spencer Bassett; Edwin Mims; William Henry Glasson; William Preston Few; William Kenneth Boyd; William Hane Wannamaker (1904). The South Atlantic...

Tonawanda until his death in 1984 at the age of 71. Second Lieutenant Preston Thomas Niland (March 6, 1915 – June 7, 1944), 29, 22nd Infantry Regiment...

mission to become a global university in 1910 with the promotion of William Preston Few as the new president of Trinity College, who sought to establish...

colleges, and a university built around Trinity College. President William Preston Few insisted that the university be named Duke University, and James...

Markinson, USMC J. A. Preston as Judge (Colonel) Julius Alexander Randolph, USMC Michael DeLorenzo as Private First Class William Santiago, USMC Noah Wyle...

Franklin Crowell (1887–1894) John Carlisle Kilgo (1894–1910) William Preston Few (1910–1940) Robert Lee Flowers (1941–1948) Arthur Hollis Edens (1949–1960)...

the Memorial Chapel, including three presidents of the university: William Preston Few (1924–1940), Julian Deryl Hart (1960–1963) with his wife Mary Johnson...

Preston Thomas Tucker (21 September 1903 – 26 December 1956) was an American automobile entrepreneur who developed the innovative Tucker 48 sedan, initially...

January 3, 1939. The title changed from Challenge of the Yukon to Sergeant Preston of the Yukon in September 1950, and that title was retained through the...

Archived from the original on March 7, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2020. "William Preston Few (1867–1940)". Duke.edu. Duke University Library. Archived from the...

The presence of faculty was astounding. Presidents J.C. Kilgo, William Preston Few, R.L. Flowers, and Arthur Hollis Edens were all members of the church...

Francis Preston Blair Sr. (April 12, 1791 – October 18, 1876) was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and influential figure in national politics...

was named president of Duke University following the death of President Few in 1941. His experience and stature were welcome because the demands of a...

over his management of the school that led to his resignation. Professor William Trigg Gannaway was appointed president pro tempore. After the Civil War...

for the Advancement of Teaching wrote Kilgo in 1909, "You are one of the few college presidents of this country who [is] attempting to graduate each year...

William Preston Phelps (1848–1923), known as "the Painter of the Monadnock", was an American landscape painter. He was born on the family farm near Chesham...