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Peirce College
Commencement Speakers
The distinguished professional achievements of the men and women who have taken part in these exercises account for the significance and importance that
Peirce College has traditionally attached to the ceremonies.
Class Name
1882 J. M. Buckley, D.D. Hon. George B. Loring,
1883 Bishop Mathew Simpson, D.D., LL.D.M.E. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk
1884 T. DeWitt Talmage, D.D. John Wanamaker
1885 Charles J. Little, Ph.D., LL.D. John B. Gough
1886 J. O. Peck, D.D.
Chancellor John Hall, D.D., LL.D.
1887 Samuel W. Small, D.D. Samuel P. Jones
1888 Russel H. Conwell, D.D. Robert J. Burdette
1889 Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, D.D., LL.D. George Edward Reed, D.D., S.T.D.
1890 Francis L. Patton, D.D., LL.D. Col. George W. Bain
1891 Andrew Carnegie Robert J. Burdette
1892 Hon. Edwin S. Stuart
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, LL.D.
1893 Hon. Benjamin Harrison Frederick Fraley
1894 Hon. Thomas B. Reed Max O’Reil
1895 Thomas Dixon, Jr., D.D. Hon. Lemuel Ely Quigg
1896 A. J. Palmer, D.D.
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt
1897 St. Clair McKelway, LL.D. Hon. James H. Eckles
1898 John H. Converse
Hon. Justin H, McCarthy, M.P.
1899 Cyrus Townsend Brady, D.D. Major General Nelson A. Miles
1900 Hon. William A. Stone Hon. Grover Cleveland
Position
Editor, Christian Advocate
M.D.U.S. Commissioner of Education Bishop
Temperance Advocate
Doctor of Divinity
Merchant and Philanthropist President, Northwestern University Temperance Advocate
Doctor of Divinity
Doctor of Divinity
Doctor of Divinity
Clergyman and Lecturer
Founder of Temple University Lecturer and Humorist
M.E. Bishop
President, Dickinson College President, Princeton University Lecturer and Humorist
Industrialist and Philanthropist Lecturer and Humorist
Former Governor of Pennsylvania U.S. Senator from New York
Former President of the United States President, Girard College
Speaker, House of Representatives French Commentator and Humorist Author and Lecturer
Member of Congress, Journalist Doctor of Divinity
Police Commissioner of New York Editor, Brooklyn Eagle
U.S. Comptroller of Currency President, Baldwin Locomotive Works English Commentator
Author and Lecturer
General, United States Army Governor of Pennsylvania
Former President of the United States
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