Thomas M. Drown

Full Name: Thomas Messinger Drown

President, Lehigh University

Centurion, 1899–1904

Proposed by
Edmund L. Zalinski and William Henry Chandler

born March 19, 1842
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

died November 15, 1904
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

elected October 7, 1899
Age fifty-seven

buried Woodlands Cemetery,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

proposer of

Henry Sturgis Drinker

Member portrait of Thomas M. Drown — Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 9, Leaf 22

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Century Memorial

Dr. Thomas M. Drown, President of Lehigh University, had a varied and notable career as a chemist and mining engineer. Born in Philadelphia in 1842, he studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and practised for a short time, but soon turned to the study of chemistry and metallurgy, which he pursued at Yale and Harvard and at Freiburg and Heidelberg. After some years of practice in analytic chemistry he was, successively, professor at Lafayette College, secretary of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, head of the department of chemistry in the Boston Institute of Technology, chemist to the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, and president of Lehigh. In both metallurgy and sanitary chemistry, Dr. Drown was an acknowledged authority.

Edward Cary
1905 Century Association Yearbook

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