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.
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Charles Abbott -
John Stevens Cabot Abbott -
Thomas Ayer -
Elisha Bacon -
Samuel Page Benson -
Alden Boynton -
James Ware Bradbury -
Richmond Bradford -
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