Professor of Physical Geography
Centurion, 1908–1927
Born 27 March 1855 in Jersey City, New Jersey
Died 6 September 1927 in Princeton, New Jersey
Buried Princeton Cemetery
, Princeton, New Jersey
Proposed by William Milligan Sloane and Levi Holbrook
Elected 5 December 1908 at age fifty-three
Century Memorial
Colonel William Libbey was an eminent geographer and geologist, teaching those sciences at Princeton for more than forty years and participating in all the important home and foreign associations engaged in investigating them. By way of avocation, he was a rifle-shot of more than American reputation. It was from the New Jersey National Guard that he won his title, but at the age of sixty-two, when we entered the European war, he was appointed major in the Ordnance Reserve Corps and instructor of the firing school. It was perfectly natural that an educator thus qualified should long have acted as marshal for Princeton’s Faculty processions at Commencement.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1928 Century Association Yearbook
