1700s

1770s
Name Class Areas of Note

John Abbot

 1778 First professor hired by Bowdoin College [1802]; Bowdoin trustee, treasurer, land agent & librarian [1802-29]; namesake of Abbot, Maine [1827]

Levi Hutchins

 1778 At age 14, a fifer in his father's militia regiment at the outset of the Revolution [1775]; privateer in the ill-fated pursuit of British prizes of war; New Hampshire clockmaker & inventor of the alarm clock [1787]

William King

 1778 Militia commander, War of 1812; leader, Maine statehood [1817-20]; 1st governor of Maine [1820-21]; 1 of 2 Maine leaders represented in the US Capitol's Statuary Hall

John Lowell Jr.

1778 Federalist leader & pamphleteer [c1795-1815]; Agricultural reformer; president, Massachusetts Agricultural Society; benefactor, Massachusetts General Hospital; known as "the Boston Rebel" & "the Roxbury Farmer"

John Phillips

 1778 President, Massachusetts Senate [1813-23]; 1st mayor of Boston [1822-23]

Josiah Quincy III

 1778 Congressman [1805-13]; 2nd mayor of Boston [1823-28]; president, Harvard University [1828-45]; namesake, Boston's Quincy Market [1826]

Benjamin Green

 1779 Chief Justice, Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas; Speaker, Maine House of Representatives
1780s
Name Class Areas of Note

John Gardner

 1780 Leading Salem merchant; his McIntire-designed Salem home [1804] now part of the Peabody-Essex Museum

Stephen Higginson

 1780 Boston benefactor of the poor; called "The Man of Ross" after John Kyrle, English Good Samaritan eulogized as "The Man of Ross" by Alexander Pope [1732]

John Brown Cutting

 1781 Apothecary General, Continental Army [1777-80]; Jefferson confidant [1788-89]; US London agent seeking release of impressed American sailors [1790]

Benjamin Abbot

 1782 Second principal, Phillips Exeter Academy [1788-1838]

Richard Cutts

 1782 Congressman [1801-13]; superintendent general of military supplies [1813-17]; comptroller, US Treasury [1817-29]

Charles Cutts

 1784 Speaker, New Hampshire House of Representatives [1807, -08, -10]; US senator from New Hampshire [1810-13]; secretary, US Senate [1814-25]; supervised restoration of the US Capitol [1814-19] following its destruction by British forces

John T. Kirkland

 1784 President, Harvard University [1810-28]

Joseph Leland

 1784 Minuteman from Grafton, Massachusetts; served in the Continental Army throughout the Revolution, beginning at Lexington [1775-1783]; Leland was 27 when he entered Phillips Academy

L.C.F. Cougnacq

 1785 From Hispaniola [Haiti]; 1 of 1st 2 international students attending Andover

Samuel Holyoke

 1785 Composer, compiler & teacher of sacred music; cofounder & 1st headmaster, Groton Academy, now Lawrence Academy [1793]

William Lee

 1785 US consul, Bordeaux [1801-15]; auditor general, US Treasury [1817-29]; diarist noted for his account of Washington in the era of Madison & Adams; mastermind of US reception for Lafayette [1824]

Howell Lewis

 1785 Private secretary to his uncle, George Washington [1792-]

Charles March

 1785 From Jamaica; 1 of 1st 2 international students at Andover

Francis Cabot Lowell

 1786 Pioneering industrialist, developer of corporate finance for industry; founder, New England cotton textile industry; Lowell, Massachusetts named in his honor [1826]

William Tudor

 1786 Cofounder & editor, North American Review [1815]; coiner of the phrase "the Athens of America" as a Boston epithet; US consul, Lima [1824-27], US chargé d'affaires, Rio de Janeiro [1827-30]

Cyrus King

 1787 Federalist congressman [1813-17] from what was then the Maine District of Massachusetts

Samuel Love Jr.

 1787 Officer in the Revolution [1776-]; Virginia planter; early breeder of Thoroughbred horses [1787-]

Jonathan Phillips

 1787 Boston philanthropist, supporting libraries & public art

Charles Pinckney Sumner

 1787 Boston social activist involved in temperance, anti-Masonic & anti-slavery movements

Joshua Wingate

 1789 Assistant Secretary of War, Jefferson Administration; general, War of 1812
1790s
Name Class Areas of Note

Timothy Alden

 1790 Founder & 1st president, Allegheny College [1815]

Joseph Tuckerman

 1791 Unitarian minister; "The Father of American social work"; leading Boston provider of social welfare, advocate for reforms benefiting the poor [1825-38]

Joseph Dane

 1793 Congressman from Massachusetts & Maine [1820-23]

James Trecothick Austin

 1794 Massachusetts Attorney General [1832-43]

Timothy Flint

 1795 Missionary & explorer, Valley of the Mississippi [1815-30]; first of many missionaries educated at PA; author "Recollections of the Last Ten Years Passed in the Valley of the Mississippi" [1826], "Geography and History of the Western States" [1828]

Benjamin Ames

 1796 Proponent of Maine statehood; 1st speaker, Maine House of Representatives [1820-23]; president, Maine Senate [1824-27]

John Farrar

 1798 Hollis Professor of Mathematics, Harvard [1806-36]; modernized teaching of mathematics & astronomy; developed the concept of hurricanes [1815]; author, "An Elementary Treatise of Astronomy" [1827]

Samuel Prescott Hildreth

 1798 Physician; naturalist, historian of Eastern Ohio; author, "History of the Diseases and Climate of Southeastern Ohio," [1837], "Pioneer History" [1848], "Lives of the Early Settlers of Ohio " [1852]

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp

 1799 Literary scholar; author, "Lectures on American Literature" [1827]

Levi Konkapot

 1799 Member of the Stockbridge Tribe [Stockbridge Munsee Tribe, Mohican Indians], 1st Native American student at Andover; member, Stockbridge Indian Company, War of 1812; removed to Wisconsin with tribe, ca.1830

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