George Frederick Behringer papers | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Autograph book containing signatures of Ezra Cornell, Andrew Dickson White, Behringer's classmates and members of the 1869 faculty; a volume of class notes from his year at Cornell containing a lecture on moral philosophy by William Dexter Wilson; and diplomas and certificates of George F. Behringer. Inlcudes diploma from Cornell's first commencement in 1869. Since Behringer was one of the eight members of the first graduating class and because was first alphabetically this is the very first diploma given by Cornell University