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Vanderbilt University Faculty in 1875

The following pages contain portraits of faculty and administrators who were on the staff of Vanderbilt University when it opened in October 1875.

Administrators


Bishop Holland Nimmons McTyeire
President, Board of Trust

Landon Cabell Garland, LL.D.
Chancellor

Department of Philosophy, Science and Literature


Landon Cabell Garland, LL.D.
Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Nathaniel T. Lupton, A.M.
Professor of Chemistry

Milton W. Humphreys, A.M., Ph.D.
Professor of Greek

B. W. Arnold, A.M.
Adjunct Professor of Latin

Edward S. Joynes, A.M.
Professor of Modern Lanuages

James M. Safford, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Mineralogy, Botany, and Economical Geology

Biblical Department


Thomas Osgood Summers, D.D., LL.D
Professor of Systematic Theology

Alfred Micajah Shipp, D.D.
Professor of Exegetical Theology

John C. Granberry, D.D.
Professor of Practical Theology

Law Department


Thomas H. Malone
Dean of the Faculty
Professor of Commercial Law and Insurance, Equity Law, Jurisprudence of the Courts of the United States, and Pleading and Practice of Civil Cases


W. B. Reese
Secretary of the Faculty
Professor of the Law of Real Property, Criminal Law and Procedure, Torts, and International and Constitutional Law

 


Edmund D. Baxter
Professor of the Law of Domestic Relations, Agency, Partnership, Corporations, Evidence, Wills, and Executors

 

Medical Department


Thomas Menees, M.D.
Dean of the Faculty
Professor of Obstetrics

James M. Safford, M.D., Ph.D.
Secretary of the Faculty
Professor of Chemistry

Paul F. Eve, M.D.
Professor of Operative and Clinical Surgery

William T. Briggs, M.D.
Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery

Thomas L. Maddin, M.D.
Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine

William L. Nichol, M.D.
Professor of the Diseases of Women and Children, and of Clinical Medicine

Van S. Lindsley, M.D.
Professor of Physiology

Thomas A. Atchison, M.D.
Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics

Thomas O. Summers, Jr., M.D.
Professor of Anatomy and Histology

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