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This is a list of Dickinson College alumni. This list covers alumni from the first graduating class in July 1787 [ 1 ] to the present. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
William Austin Dickinson (April 16, 1829 – August 16, 1895) was an American lawyer who lived and worked in Amherst, Massachusetts. Known to family and friends as "Austin", he was, notably, the older brother of poet Emily Dickinson .
The Ladbury Church, near Dazey, North Dakota, was built in 1899 in Late Gothic Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson (c. 1814 – October 7, 1883) and her infant daughter, Angelina, were among the few American survivors of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. Her husband, Almaron Dickinson , and 185 other Texian defenders were killed by the Mexican Army .
William Richard Dickinson (October 26, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was a professor emeritus of geoscience at the University of Arizona and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. [1] Prior joining the University of Arizona, Dickinson was a professor at Stanford University . [ 2 ]
Father dies – we see Emily grieving her father from an upstairs window refusing to join the funeral procession. Emily, now confined to her room, will not come downstairs. She upbraids the visiting newspaper editor for altering the punctuation of her poems, objecting to Dr Holland’s changes as “obviousness”.
Colonel Fairleigh Stanton Dickinson Sr. (August 22, 1866 – June 23, 1948) was an American businessman who was the co-founder of the Fortune 500 medical technology company Becton Dickinson and the named benefactor of Fairleigh Dickinson University.
The poem is structurally unusual for Dickinson, using lines with only two metric feet instead of her typical three and four feet iambs. [3] Judith Farr writes that the opening spondees makes the poem theatrical, turbulent, and stormy, appropriate for the subject matter, and shows her interest in the Brontë sisters and Wuthering Heights . [ 4 ]