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Daniel McBride Graham (1822–1888) was a Free Will Baptist pastor who served as the first president of Hillsdale College, serving from 1844 to 1848 and from 1871 to 1874.[1]

Graham was born in 1817 in Milan, Ohio and graduated from Oberlin College.[2] He served as the first president of Michigan Central College (later to become Hillsdale College) in Spring Arbor, Michigan when it was established in 1844 with five students. Graham left presidency in 1848 to a pastor a church in Saco, Maine. He returned to the presidency of Hillsdale from 1871 to 1874. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1888 and was buried there at Mount Moriah Cemetery.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Past Presidents" https://www.hillsdale.edu/about/history/past-presidents/
  2. ^ The Student's Journal Volume 18 (1889) Page 8, https://books.google.com/books?id=WZbnAAAAMAAJ
  3. ^ "Dr Daniel Mcbride Graham (1817 - 1888)". Find A Grave Memorial. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
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