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William Libbey

William Libbey

William A. Libbey III
Medal record
Men's Shooting
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1912 Stockholm team running deer,
single shots

William A. Libbey III (March 27, 1855 – September 6, 1927) was an American professor of physical geography at Princeton University. He was twice a member of the U.S. Olympic Rifle Team, and rose to the rank of colonel in the New Jersey National Guard. He is also known for his first ascent of Mount Princeton in 1877. He also competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1]

Biography

Libbey's Princeton home, Thanet Lodge, also known as Greenholm, built in 1902, now home to the Lewis School of Princeton

Early life

He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey to William Libbey, Jr., a wealthy New York City merchant, and Elizabeth Marsh (Libbey).[2] As an undergraduate at Princeton Libbey was responsible for the adoption of orange and black as the school colors. During his freshman year he wore a tie, on a dare from classmate Melanchthon Jacobus, with the colors of William III of England, Prince of Orange-Nassau, after whom Nassau Street had been named in 1724, and later Nassau Hall in 1756.[3] The next year he arranged for the manufacture of 1,000 yards of orange and black ribbon and proceeded to sell it, from the Grand Union Hotel, at an intercollegiate regatta in Saratoga, New York as "Princeton's colors." After the Princeton crew team won, he sold out and orange and black have been Princeton's definitive colors ever since.[4]

Professor

Libbey graduated from Princeton in 1877 and that summer went on the Princeton scientific expedition to the West. It was there that on the afternoon of July 17, 1877, at 12:30 pm he reached the summit of Mount Princeton.[5] Following his summer in the West, Libbey studied in Berlin and Paris.[6]

Libbey returned and received his doctorate in geology in 1879, the first awarded by Princeton. In 1880 he was appointed as director of the Elizabeth Marsh Museum of Geology and Archaeology as well as an associate professor to teach physical geography.[2] In 1883 he was appointed as a full professor and continued to teach the physical geography classes.[2]

In 1897 Libbey was involved with the controversy concerning whether the Acoma people had once lived on Enchanted Mesa. After great exertion, he spent a couple of hours on the mesa top and concluded that nothing was there and that it had never been occupied. Subsequent work by archaeologists have shown that Libbey's conclusion was hasty.[7]

Libbey was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society.[8]

At the 1912 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal as a member of the American team in the team running deer, single shots competition.[9]

Libbey died in Princeton, New Jersey.

References

  1. ^ "William Libbey". Olympedia. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Department of " Princeton University
  3. ^ Bearse, Myrna (2005). Princeton: Still Making History. Indigo Custom Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 978-0976287575.
  4. ^ "Princeton's Colors: The Orange and the Black". Princetoniana. Princeton University.
  5. ^ Merritt, J. I. (1997) "The Once and Future Mountain" Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University
  6. ^ "William Libbey and the 1877 Expedition" Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University
  7. ^ Simmons, Marc (20 May 2006) "Trail dust: The Enchanted Mesa: myth or true tale?" The Santa Fe New Mexican Archived May 31, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved March 1, 2024.
  9. ^ "William Libbey" profile Olympics database Archived September 1, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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