James Clarke Welling
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James Clarke Welling (July 14, 1825 – September 4, 1894) was the President of Columbian University, now the George Washington University, Washington, DC, from 1871 to 1894.[1] He was a cofounder of the National Geographic Society.[2]
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| Born | July 14, 1825 Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | September 4, 1894 (aged 69) Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Princeton University, 1844 |
| Known for | President of Columbian University, now the George Washington University and cofounder of the National Geographic Society |
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Biography
James Clarke Welling was born in Trenton, New Jersey on July 14, 1825. He graduated from Princeton University in 1844.[3] During the Civil War, he wrote for the National Intelligencer.[4] Welling was a professor at Princeton when in 1871 he accepted the presidency of Columbian College.[5] He became the sixth president of the university.
He was one of the ten founders of the Cosmos Club in 1878.[6] In 1884, he served as president of the Philosophical Society of Washington.[7]
"The last occasion in which he appeared in public was at the laying of the new cornerstone of the Corcoran Gallery of Art."[8] Welling died at his summer residence in Hartford, Connecticut on September 4, 1894.[9]
