This is a drawing of the H.L. Spencer Memorial Chapel. Harry Lindley (H.L.) Spencer served in the Civil War in the 9th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. After the war, Spencer moved to Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he started a grocery business in 1867 with F.J.…
Pictured here is the Penn College basketball team from the 1920's. Basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith in December of 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts. It did not take long for the sport to catch on and spread west across the United…
Penn Academy class of 1916 are having a picnic near the Chautauqua Building behind Old Main. The Penn Academy offered a secondary school education from 1873 to 1925.
Picture taken May 191888 of the Penn College class of 1890 including Lawrence Byers, Chalmers Chawner, Oliver Dixon, Mae Evans, Frank Green, H. Etta McCarroll, Martha Marshall, Charles Michener, Alvah Negus, Lucie Shumate and Cyrus White.
John W. Woody was the first president of Penn College, serving as president from 1873 to 1877. President Woody was married to Mary Chawner Woody in 1868. Mary Chawner Woody was on the faculty and she taught history, rhetoric and served as the first…
William B. Morgan was the second president of Penn College. Prior to becoming president, William Morgan was a professor of mathematics and astronomy. He served for two years as president and then went back to teaching.
Benjamin F. Trueblood was the third president of Penn College. He served for eleven years and then went on to work in the peace movement and edit "Advocate of Peace".
Absalom Rosenberger served as the fourth president of Penn College. Before becoming president, he received his law degree from the university of Michigan. He was the longest serving president of the college.
David M. Edwards was the sixth president of Penn College and the first alumnus of Penn to fill that role. After leaving Penn he would go on to become president of Earlham College and Friends University.
Robert L. Kelly served as acting president for the academic year 1900-1901 to allow President Rosenberger to travel and study abroad. Robert L. Kelly went on to become president of Earlham College in 1903.
