Honorary Degree Recipients
- John Smythe Richardson. Received 1827. Born 1805, died 1871.
- Henry Ustick Onderdonk Received 1827. Bishop of Pennsylvania. Born 1789, died 1858.
- Gullian Crommelin Verplanck. Received 1834.
- Byron Andrews. Received 1900.
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