Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
William Libbey
Professor of Physical Geography
Centurion, 1908–1927
Proposed by
William Milligan Sloane and Levi Holbrook
William Milligan Sloane and Levi Holbrook
born
March 27, 1855
Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City, New Jersey
died
September 6, 1927
Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey
elected
December 5, 1908
Age fifty-three
Age fifty-three
buried
Princeton Cemetery,
Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey
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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
