page_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people
section_title: 1850s
hierarchical_section_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people / Notable alumni / 1850s
caption_attribution_description: English: George W. Atherton
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: Frederick Lothrop Ames (1851) – business magnate; art collector
  Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1851) – author, journalist, abolitionist
  Uriah Smith (1851) – Seventh-day Adventist author and theologian
  George Bates Nichols Tower (c. 1851) – civil and mechanical engineer; author
  Benjamin Smith Lyman (1852) – mining engineer, surveyor, linguist
  Benjamin F. Prescott (1852) – Governor of New Hampshire
  Charles Pomeroy Otis (1855) – educator; author
  Wheelock G. Veazey (1855) – Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court; Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Gettysburg)
  George E. Adams (1856) – U.S. representative from Illinois
  Marcellus Bailey (1856) – patent attorney; worked on the patents for the telephone
  Frank W. Hackett (1857) – Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy
  Edward Rowland Sill (1857) – poet
  George W. Atherton (1858) – President of Pennsylvania State University
  William Ripley Brown (1858) – U.S. representative from Kansas
  Charles Ezra Greene (1858) – civil engineer; author; first dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering
  Edward Tuck (1858) – banker, diplomat, philanthropist
  George S. Morison (1859) – leading bridge designer
  Henry B. Lovering (1859) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
caption: George W. Atherton
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