Research on Alumni

1940 General Catalogue (Ref LD1435.5 .D3 1940)

Contains birth, death, occupation, and residence information on alumni of the undergraduate college and the professional schools, as well as on College officers and faculty, prior to 1940.

Also searchable online: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/digital/publishing/books/dartmouth1940/

 

Chapman - Sketches of the Alumni   (Ref LD1435.4 .C47)

Contains good biographical and genealogical information on most graduates of the undergraduate College for classes through 1867.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/rauner/chapman/

 

Alumni Files

Arranged in class order for deceased Dartmouth undergraduate alumni, some honorary degree recipients, and some advanced degree students, from 1771 - present.  Usually contain clippings, obituaries, photographs, standard biographical forms.

 

Affiliates Files (DL-15)

Files containing information about honorary degree recipients, faculty, officers and staff, who did not receive academic Dartmouth degrees.

In many cases, these are different from the official faculty files maintained by the College, but ephemeral files created by Special Collections, and therefore the contents are less standardized.

 

Medical School Alumni files (DA-709 and DA-3)

Information files on deceased graduates and non-graduates of the Medical School who were not alumni of the undergraduate College, for classes  ca. 1800-1950.  There is also a card index with brief information on non-graduates who entered the Medical School from 1800-1878.

 

Frost Genealogical Records (DH-15)

Many Dartmouth alumni, faculty, and officers were members of Hanover families. Additional biographical and genealogical information may be found in the Frost Genealogy Records, particularly his card index of Hanover families. Please refer to the information sheet on that collection.

 

Class Reports  (DC Hist Class Report [ClassYear])

Periodical publications by individual classes which contain biographical information about members of the class.

 

Obituaries

Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, 1901- present (Ref LH1 .D3 A5)

Indexed cumulatively on cards through 1935; annually until 1983; no current index for articles or obituaries.

 

The Dartmouth (Ref LH1 .D3 D2)

Prior to the publishing of an alumni magazine, The Dartmouth contained obituaries and alumni notes.  Cumulative on-site card index through 1983 and online index from 1984 to 2020. The Dartmouth website also archives its digitally published content, which is available to the public.

 

Dartmouth Necrology, published 1874 - 1913  (Ref LD1435.43 .D3)

Contains obituaries for some alumni of the undergraduate College, honorary degree recipients, and Medical School graduates.

 

Dartmouth Medicine, 1976 - present  (DC Hist R747 .D388)

The alumni magazine for the Medical School, contains obituaries for DMS alumni and officers.

 

Tuck Today, 1971 - present (DC Hist LH1 .D3 T7)

The alumni magazine for the Tuck School.  Includes obituary information starting in 1974.

 

Military Service

Dartmouth Roll of Honor, 1861-1865 (Ref E541 D22 R3)

Lists Dartmouth and DMS students and alumni service records during the Civil War.

 

Dartmouth War Record,  1917-1918 (Ref D639 .E4 D3)

Lists service records for Dartmouth undergraduate students and alumni during WWI.

 

Oral History Program

Emphasizing the voices least represented in the archival record, the College’s oral history program documents events and issues that have shaped Dartmouth College and altered or challenged the direction and identity of the institution. The program has collected oral histories from a variety of community members, including: oral histories collected from former Dartmouth students and current and former Dartmouth faculty and staff documenting the history of the College's LGBTQIA+ community; oral histories collected from members of the Dartmouth community (alumni and their families; current and former faculty, staff, and administrators; current and former residents of the Upper Valley) documenting their experiences of the Vietnam War era (1950-1975); oral histories collected from members of the Dartmouth community (alumni, students, current and emeritus faculty and staff) describing their undergraduate and work experiences at Dartmouth from the end of World War Two to the present; and oral histories collected from members of the classes of the 1940s documenting their undergraduate experiences at Dartmouth before, during and after World War Two. The program also contains oral histories collected from fromer Dartmouth presidents, administrators, faculty, trustees, and members of the Dartmouth medical community.

 

Other

In addition to doing an online search for the specific person, it is  worth checking the online catalog for published genealogies of family names; some family genealogies are contained in the Alumni Printed Collection.  The on-site manuscript card catalog in Special Collections can be searched both for correspondence and genealogical notes.