President, Lehigh University
Centurion, 1899–1904
Born 19 March 1842 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died 15 November 1904 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Buried Woodlands Cemetery
, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Proposed by Edmund L. Zalinski and William Henry Chandler
Elected 7 October 1899 at age fifty-seven
Proposer of:
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
