Daniel Bonbright

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Husband Daniel Bonbright ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1831
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           Died: 1912 2
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         Father: Daniel Bonbright (      -1842) 1 2
         Mother: Mary Smith (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Daniel Bonbright

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Following is an extract from an article by Prof. Amos W. Patten, which appeared in the New York Christian Advocate:
On December 15, 1912, there assembled in Evanston, Illinois, the seat of the Northwestern University, a great audience to do honor to the memory of the oldest and most distinguished member of the faculty. Professor Daniel Bonbright, LLD., dean emeritus and professor of the Latin language and literature, had entered into the larger life. A graduate of Yale in the class of 1850, he was in 1856 elected to the chair of Latin in the Northwestern University. After two years of preparatory study in Germany he assumed his duties, bringing to his work a personality and a professional equipment which marked him for a teacher of unusual ability. For many years he served as dean of the college of liberal arts and was also president ad interim. On three different occasions he was offered the presidency which he declined, preferring his work as teacher. Attractive offers from outside failed to lure him, and he choose to remain with the university, enriching it with the wealth of his culture, his serene and beautiful life, and his pre-eminent powers as a teacher. No one who was privileged to work under him will ever forget the tonic of his presence, and the peculiar force and elegance with which he interpreted the classic authors. Dr. Bonbright's departure marks the last of the elect company who had to do with the founding of the university and the early days of Evanston.

1 Editor, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 120.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 129.