Henry Mitchell MacCracken
- Henry Mitchell MacCracken
Henry Mitchell MacCracken was an American educator (1840-1918), born in Oxford, Ohio. Graduate of Miami University (Ohio) in 1857. After a brief teaching career MacCracken entered the Presbyterian ministry in 1863. From 1881 to 1884 he was chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (originally called Western University).
In 1884 he was appointed professor of philosophy and vice chancellor of New York University, becoming chancellor in 1891. Before his retirement in 1910, the University Heights campus was acquired, a graduate school and schools of commerce and pedagogy were founded, and the university medical school was strengthened by union with Bellevue Hospital medical college. Henry Noble MacCracken, president (1915-46) of Vassar College, and John Henry MacCracken, president (1915–26) of Lafayette College, were his sons.
A residence hall at Miami University bears his name.
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See T. F. Jones, New York University, 1832–1932 (1933).
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