page_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people
section_title: 1870s
hierarchical_section_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people / Notable alumni / 1870s
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: August Belmont Jr. (1870) – banker; owner and breeder of thoroughbreds, builder of Belmont Park racetrack
  Erastus Brainerd (1870) – museum curator; newspaper editor; publicist for Seattle, Washington
  Nathan Haskell Dole (1870) – author and translator
  Ulysses S. Grant Jr. (c. 1870) – entrepreneur; son of President Ulysses S. Grant
  Samuel L. Powers (1870) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
  Sylvester Primer (1870) – linguist and philologist
  Albert D. Bosson (1871) – Mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts
  Nelson Taylor Jr. (1871) – politician from Connecticut
  Philip Hale (1872) – music critic
  Oscar Richard Hundley (1872) – federal judge
  Frank H. Pope (1872) – newspaper reporter; Massachusetts politician
  George Edward Woodberry (1872) – poet and literary critic
  Melville Bull (1873) – Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island; U.S. representative from Rhode Island
  Henry G. Danforth (1873) – U.S. representative from New York
  Robert O. Harris (1873) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
  James Cameron Mackenzie (1873) – transformative Headmaster of Lawrenceville School
  George Arthur Plimpton (1873) – publisher and philanthropist
  William Bancroft (1874) – businessman; brigadier general; Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
  Benjamin Newhall Johnson (1874) – attorney, historian, owner of Breakheart Hill Forest
  Ogden Mills (1874) – financier; owner of thoroughbreds; philanthropist
  Guy Carleton Phinney (1874) – real estate developer
  Frederick Winslow Taylor (1874) – efficiency innovator; management theorist and consultant; president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  Harlan P. Amen (1875) – Principal of Phillips Exeter, 1895–1913
  William De Witt Hyde (1875) – President of Bowdoin College
  Henry Shute (1875) – author
  William Morton Grinnell (1876) – lawyer; banker; diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State
  Robert Winsor (1876) – financier, investment banker, and philanthropist
  Timothy L. Woodruff (1876) – Lieutenant Governor of New York
  Charles MacVeagh (1877) – U.S. Ambassador to Japan
  William W. Stickney (1877) – Governor of Vermont
  Willard S. Augsbury (1878) – businessman, banker, and politician from New York State
  Sherman Hoar (1878) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
  Walter I. McCoy (1878) – U.S. representative from New Jersey
  William Schaus (1878) – entomologist
  Henry Grier Bryant (1879) – explorer, writer
  S. Percy Hooker (1879) – politician from New York State
  Moses King (1879) – editor and publisher of travel guidebooks
  Francis S. Peabody (1879) – coal baron, ally of Adlai Stevenson
caption: Frederick Winslow Taylor
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