Notable Alumni of Cazenovia College

William Calhoun McDonald 1858–1918

First governor of New Mexico

Daniel D. Pratt 1813–1877

U.S. senator from Indiana

Also attended: Hamilton College

Austin Blair 1818–1894

13th governor of Michigan

Also attended: Hamilton College, Union College

Lucien Lester Ainsworth 1831–1902

U.S. Representative from Iowa

James S. T. Stranahan 1808–1898

Railroader and U.S. representative from New York

Spouse: Clara Harrison Stranahan (Mount Holyoke College)

Bradley Winslow 1831–1914

Civil War colonel and New York state senator

Charles Andrews 1827–1918

Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals

Child: William Shankland Andrews (Harvard University, Columbia University in the City of New York)

William E. Lansing 1821–1883

US representative from New York during the Civil War

David F. Wilber 1859–1928

U.S. representative and consul from New York

Joseph B. Hamilton 1817–1902

Wisconsin state senator, lawyer and judge

Leland Stanford 1824–1893

Railroad tycoon, California governor and senator

Philip Danforth Armour 1832–1901

Meatpacking industrialist, founder of Armour and Company

Child: Jonathan Ogden Armour (Yale University)

Henry Seely White 1861–1943

Mathematician and university professor

Attended until 1879

Also attended: Wesleyan University

Lucinda L. Combs 1849–1919

First female medical missionary in China

Nathan Smith Davis 1817–1904

Physician who helped found the American Medical Association

Hind Rassam Culhane 2000–

Iraqi-born educator and former journalist

Also attended: Rockford University, Columbia University in the City of New York, Teachers College at Columbia University

Jimmy Van Heusen 1913–1990

Composer; four-time Oscar winner for Best Original Song

Also attended: Syracuse University

Willard Fiske 1831–1904

Librarian, book collector and chess player

Also attended: Hamilton College

Lewis Hartsough 1828–1919

Methodist evangelist and gospel song writer

Carole Cole 1944–2009

Actress and producer, daughter of Nat King Cole

John Philip Newman 1826–1899

Methodist Episcopal Church bishop elected in 1888

Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper 1835–1896

Educator, author, evangelist and suffragist

L. Fidelia Woolley Gillette 1827–1905

Early ordained female minister in the US and Canada

Erastus Wentworth 1813–1886

Methodist missionary to Fuzhou, China

Also attended: Wesleyan University, Allegheny College