page_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people
section_title: 1860s
hierarchical_section_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people / Notable alumni / 1860s
caption_attribution_description: English: Robert Todd Lincoln, photographed by Harris &amp; Ewing.
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable faculty, trustees, and alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy, a preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire, founded in 1781.
context_section_description: Jeremiah Curtin (1860) – translator of Native American and Slavic languages; folklorist
  William M.R. French (1860) – first director of the Art Institute of Chicago
  Robert Todd Lincoln (1860) – son of President Abraham Lincoln; U.S. Secretary of War; U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom
  James Greeley Flanders (1861) – Wisconsin politician
  Marshall Snow (1861) – Acting Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
  John White Chadwick (1862) – Unitarian minister and writer
  Augustus Van Wyck (1862) – Supreme Court justice from Brooklyn, New York
  John E. Leonard (1863) – U.S. representative from Louisiana
  Elisha B. Maynard (1863) – Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts; Associate Justice of Massachusetts Superior Court
  John Ames Mitchell (1863) – architect; writer; publisher, co-founder and president of Life magazine
  George Thomas Tilden (1863) – architect
  Wilmon W. Blackmar (1864) – Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Battle of Five Forks)
  Charles Rufus Brown (1865) – Hebrew Bible scholar
  Robert Hallowell Richards (1865) – mining engineer; metallurgist
  Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1865) – architect
  William Gardner Hale (1866) – classical scholar
  Edward R. Bacon (1867) – railroad president; financier; art collector
  John Hubbard (1867) – Real Admiral, U.S. Navy
  Herbert H. D. Peirce (1867) – diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State; U.S. Ambassador to Norway; brother of C. S. Peirce
  Herbert Baxter Adams (1868) – educator and historian
  Winfield Scott Edgerly (1868) – brigadier general, U.S. Army
  Robert Franklin Pennell (1868) – educator and scholar
  Charlemagne Tower Jr. (1868) – U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Germany
  Frank O. Briggs (1869) – U.S. senator from New Jersey
caption: Robert Todd Lincoln
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