Alexander Blaine Brown was elected the seventh president of
Jefferson College on October 14, 1847. The son of
Matthew Brown, Jefferson College's fifth president, Brown was professor of
belles lettres
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and adjunct professor of languages from 1841 to 1847. Under his presidency the college continued to prosper and in 1852
Phi Kappa Psi
Phi Kappa Psi (), commonly known as Phi Psi, is an American collegiate social fraternity that was founded by William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore in Widow Letterman's home on the campus of Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pen ...
fraternity was founded at Jefferson College. Brown resigned in August 1856 due to ill health.
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Presidents of Washington & Jefferson College
1808 births
1853 deaths