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Meet the students

Want to get to know the Class of 1825? Select a name to read that student’s short, witty biography. You’ll learn about student high jinx such as setting a bonfire in the dorm, playing drums to disrupt other students, and forming a drinking club, along with stories about life-long friendships formed at Bowdoin, lives dedicated to the public good, and fascinating hometown and familiar connections.

A huge and special thanks to Annabel Winterberg (Bowdoin Class of 2021), Research Intern in Special Collections & Archives in Spring-Summer 2021, for pouring through old disciplinary records, alumni biographical files, published biographies, and other sources to compile these lively and informative stories.

  • Charles Abbott
  • John Stevens Cabot Abbott
  • Thomas Ayer
  • Elisha Bacon
  • Samuel Page Benson
  • Alden Boynton
  • James Ware Bradbury
  • Richmond Bradford
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    Horatio Bridge
  • George Cheever
  • Jonathan Cilley
  • Cyrus Hamlin Coolidge
  • Gorham Deane
  • Jeremiah Dummer
  • Nathaniel Dunn
  • Joseph Jenkins Eveleth
  • David Foster
  • Patrick Henry Greenleaf
  • William Hale
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • John Kinsman
  • Josiah Little
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Stephen Longfellow
  • Alfred Martin
  • Alfred Mason
  • Frederic Mellen
  • Mark Newman
  • Hezekiah Packard
  • George Washington Pierce
  • Edward Deering Preble
  • Cullen Sawtelle
  • David Shepley
  • Charles Snell
  • William Stone
  • Edward Vose
  • Eugene Weld
  • Seward Wyman

Non-Graduates

John Badger

Daniel Haraden Griffin

James Milk Ingraham

George Washington Lane

John Odlin Page

Arthur Thompson

Alfred Upham (or did her graduate?)

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