Sixth chancellor of Syracuse University
William Pratt Graham (November 24, 1871 – January 10, 1962) was an electrical engineering professor and the sixth chancellor of Syracuse University . Graham was the first alumnus of Syracuse as well as the first non-clergyman to hold that position.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
Biography
Graham was born to Jerome Bonaparte Graham, a veteran of the Civil War , and Sylvia Aurelia Graham in Oswego, New York .[ 1] Graham entered Syracuse University as an undergraduate in 1889 and graduated in 1893 before pursuing postgraduate work at the University of Berlin ,[ 6] graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1897.[ 1] He joined the faculty of Syracuse as an electrical engineering professor in 1898, after spending the intervening period studying the subject at Technische Universität Darmstadt ,[ 1] and he was made dean of the College of Applied Science in 1912.[ 7] [ 3] [ 1] Graham served as the vice-chancellor to Charles Wesley Flint before succeeding him as chancellor in 1937, a position Graham intended to hold only until a successor was found.[ 3] [ 8] [ 4] Graham retired from the university in 1942 when William Pearson Tolley was elected chancellor.[ 9] He died in Syracuse, New York in 1962.[ 6] [ 5]
Bibliography
References
^ a b c d e Fitch, Charles Elliott (1916). Encyclopedia of Biography of New York . Vol. 5. New York: American Historical Society, Incorporated. p. 109.
^ "Mrs. William Graham" . Syracuse Herald-Journal . October 25, 1958 – via Newspaperarchive.com .
^ a b c Greene, John Robert (2000). The Hill: An Illustrated Biography of Syracuse University, 1870–present . Syracuse University Press . p. 20. ISBN 978-0815606482 .
^ a b Greene, John Robert (1996). Syracuse University, Vol. 4: The Tolley years, 1942–1969 . Syracuse University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0815627012 .
^ a b "Dr. William Pratt Graham Dies; Ex-Chancellor of Syracuse U." . The New York Times . January 12, 1962. p. 35.
^ a b "Memory and Our Mystic Shrine". The Beta Theta Pi . 89 (5): 459. May 1962.
^ "Syracuse University History: Chancellors of Syracuse University" . Syracuse University Archives . Syracuse University . Retrieved December 13, 2015 .
^ Phillips, Richard (2005). Hendricks Chapel: Seventy-five Years of Service to Syracuse University . Syracuse University Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0815608271 .
^ Galvin, Edward L.; Mason, Margaret A.; O'Brien, Mary M. (2013). Syracuse University . Arcadia Publishing. pp. 51, 57. ISBN 978-0738599311 .