The Biographical Dictionary of America/Baugher, Henry L.

​BAUGHER, Henry L., educator, was born in Abbottstown, Pa., about 1805. In 1825 he was graduated from Dickinson college, Carlisle. He became a Lutheran preacher and held a pastorate at Boonesboro, Md. In 1830 he was principal of a classical school at Gettysburg. The school was made a college in 1833, and he was given the chair of Greek and belles lettres. In 1850 he was made president of the college, and so remained till his death, April 14, 1868.

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