Dr. Thomas M. Drown, president of Lehigh University, died Wednesday in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Drown was born in Philadelphia, March 19, 1842. He was a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania but practiced medicine only a short time. He studied chemistry at Yale, and was instructor in metallurgy at Harvard from 1869 to 1871. From 1874 to 1881 he was professor of chemistry at Lafayette, and at the Institute of Technology from 1885 to 1895. Since 1895 he has been president of Lehigh University. In 1897-98 Dr. Drown was president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers.
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