8 Notable alumni of Colby-Sawyer College

Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees

Colby-Sawyer College is ranked #5,254 in the world and #1,381 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 8 notable alumni from Colby-Sawyer College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Colby-Sawyer College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

William H. Gilmore

1. William H. Gilmore

1839-1910 (aged 71)
politician military officer
William Harrison Gilmore was a Vermont political and military figure. He served in the Vermont House of Representatives, as a member of the Vermont Senate, and as Adjutant General of the Vermont Militia.
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Minnie Mary Lee

2. Minnie Mary Lee

1826-1903 (aged 77)
writer autobiographer
Minnie Mary Lee was a pen name of Julia Amanda Sargent Wood, a 19th-century American sentimental author, of poems, stories, sketches and novels, who sometimes also wrote as Mrs. Julia A. A. Wood. She began writing very early in life, but did not publish in book form until she was in her forties. The Heart of Myrrha Lake, Or, Into...
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William W. Stickney

3. William W. Stickney

1899-1980 (aged 81)
military personnel
William Wallace Stickney was an American lawyer, SEC official and decorated officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of major general. He spent most of his Marine career as reserve officer, but was recalled to active duty during World War II and subsequently remained on active service as director of Marine Corps Reserve.
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Marilla Ricker

4. Marilla Ricker

1840-1920 (aged 80)
suffragist lawyer writer
Marilla Marks Ricker was a suffragist, philanthropist, lawyer, and freethinker. She was the first female lawyer from New Hampshire, United States, and she paved the way for women to be accepted into the bar in New Hampshire. She was also the first woman to run for governor in that state, and the first woman to apply for a federal foreign...
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Martha Ware

5. Martha Ware

1917-2009 (aged 92)
politician judge
Martha Ware was an American district court judge in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler

6. Benjamin Ide Wheeler

1854-1927 (aged 73)
classical philologist writer university teacher philologist linguist
Benjamin Ide Wheeler was a professor of Greek and comparative philology at Cornell University, writer, and President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919.
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John Quincy Adams Brackett

7. John Quincy Adams Brackett

1842-1918 (aged 76)
lawyer politician
John Quincy Adams Brackett was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. A Republican and temperance advocate, he served one term as the 36th governor of Massachusetts, from 1890 to 1891. Born in New Hampshire and educated at Harvard, he practiced law in Boston before entering politics.
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John H. Bartlett

8. John H. Bartlett

1869-1952 (aged 83)
lawyer teacher
John Henry Bartlett was a descendant of Josiah Bartlett, New Hampshire's first governor and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. John H. Bartlett was an American teacher, high school principal, lawyer, author and Republican politician from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1894 and served as the 57th governor of New Hampshire from 1919...
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