The Dickey Club, was a private social club at Harvard University, originally founded in 1851 as a chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Following are some of the notable members of The Dickey Club.

Academia

James Barr Ames – 2nd Dean of Harvard Law School Wilder Dwight Bancroft – chemistry professor at Cornell University Arthur Pierce Butler – co-founder and headmaster of Morristown School Archibald Cary Coolidge – first director of the Harvard University Library from 1910 to 1928 Charles Loring Jackson – organic chemist, professor, and chairman of the Division of Chemistry at Harvard University Edwin P. Seaver – superintendent of Boston Public Schools William Codman Sturgis – mycologist and dean of the School of Forestry at Colorado College Ezra Ripley Thayer – Dean of Harvard Law School Barrett Wendell – professor of English at Harvard University, known for writing a series of textbooks Justin Winsor – librarian, historian, first president of the American Library Association Francis Woodman – co-founder and headmaster of Morristown School

Architecture Walter Cook – architect with Babb, Cook & Willard Charles Allerton Coolidge – architect Bowdoin B. Crowninshield – naval architect who specialized in racing yachts William Winthrop Kent – architect Guy Lowell – architect and landscape architect Henry Chapman Mercer – tilemaker and designer of Fonthill, the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works and the Mercer Museum; curator of American and prehistoric archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania Museum J. Harleston Parker – architect with Parker, Thomas & Rice Robert Swain Peabody – architect J. Pickering Putnam – architect Arthur Rotch – architect Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes – architect Richard Clipston Sturgis – architect Edmund M. Wheelwright – architect James Bosley Noel Wyatt – architect

Art

Francis Brooks Chadwick – painter Frederick Converse – composer of classical musict Frederic Crowninshield – painter Ralph Wormeley Curtis – painter and graphic artist Augustus C. Gurnee – socialite and art patron Edward Simmons – painter William A. Slater – art collector who established the Slater Memorial Museum Edward Perry Warren – art collector Charles Goddard Weld – art collector who made major contributions to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Peabody Essex Museum

Business

Rodolphe L. Agassiz – polo player and chairman of the board of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Frederick Lothrop Ames – co-founder of General Electric, vice president of the Old Colony Railroad, and director of the Union Pacific Railroad William Henry Baldwin Jr. – president of the Long Island Rail Road August Belmont Jr. – finacier and head of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company James Cunningham Bishop – banker and officer of the Welsbach Street Illuminating Company James A. Burden Jr. – industrialist Frederic Adrian Delano – first vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and president of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, and the Wabash Railroad Amos Tuck French – member of the New York Stock Exchange and vice-president of the Manhattan Trust Company William A. Gaston – president of the Boston Elevated Railway and National Shawmut Bank Powers Hapgood – trade union organizer and Socialist Party leader George Ward Holdrege – general manager Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company Thomas W. Lamont – vice president of First National Bank George H. Mifflin – president of Houghton Mifflin J. P. Morgan Jr. – banker and finance executive Henry T. Oxnard – founder and president of the American Beet Sugar Company Bradley Palmer – lawyer involved with the creation of Gillette Safety Razor Co., the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, and the United Fruit Company Frederick H. Rindge – real estate developer and founder of present-day Malibu, California Charles Robert Sanger – professor of chemistry at Harvard University George R. Sheldon – banker, finacier, and a leading force in the Trust Company of America George Fox Steedman – president of Curtis Manufacturing Co. James J. Storrow – partner of Lee, Higginson & Co.; president of General Motors Nash Motors; president of the Boy Scouts of America Hamilton McKown Twombly – co-founder of the American Sulphur Company, later the Union Sulphur Company; financial advisor to William Henry Vanderbilt Henry K. Vingut – horse broker August H. Vogel – vice-president of Pfister & Vogel Fiske Warren – president of the S. D. Warren Paper Co., developer of single-tax colonies, activist for Philippine independence, and tennis champion Grinnell Willis – textile merchant Robert Winsor – head of Kidder, Peabody & Company

Law

Brooks Adams – lawyer, political scientist, and critic of capitalism Francis R. Appleton – lawyer with Robbins & Appleton Peter Townsend Barlow – New York City magistrate Edmund L. Baylies – lawyer; personal counsel to Cornelius Vanderbilt III; president of the Vanderbilt Hotel Corporation Julian Codman – lawyer who was active with the Anti-Imperialist League Harold Jefferson Coolidge Sr. – lawyer James Truesdell Kilbreth – lawyer, New York City Police justice, Court of Special Sessions justice, and Collector of the Port of New York William Loring – justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court James Arnold Lowell – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts John James McCook – corporate lawyer Peter B. Olney – New York County District Attorney, Referee in Bankruptcy, and attorney Francis Key Pendleton – justice of the Supreme Court of New York and Corporation Counsel of New York City William Lowell Putnam – lawyer Samuel D. Warren II – lawyer and co-founder of Nutter McClennen & Fish Francis Joseph Wing – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Literature and journalism

John Jay Chapman – writer, poet, and essayist Julian Hawthorne – writer and journalist William Randolph Hearst – newspaper publisher and United States House of Representatives Robert Herrick – novelist Edward Knoblock – playwright and novelist Edward Jackson Lowell – author of historical nonfiction and lawyer Edward Sandford Martin – chief editorial editor and literary editor of Life Magaziner William H. Peck – writer Henry Dwight Sedgwick – author Frank Preston Stearns – biographer William Roscoe Thayer – author and editor Bayard Tuckerman – biographer and historian Owen Wister – writer, known for The Virginian

Medicine

John Templeton Bowen – dermatologist and professor of dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital William A. Brooks – surgeon and academic Arthur Tracy Cabot – surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital; curator of the Harvard Dental Museum James Read Chadwick – gynecologist and medical librarian Ernest Amory Codman – surgeon John Green Curtis – physiologist with the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Thomas Dwight – physician, anatomist, and professor of anatomy at Harvard Medical Robert B. Greenough – leading American cancer specialist Robert Means Lawrence – physician at the Boston Dispensary and author Charles McBurney – surgeon-in-chief of the Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West) George Howard Monks – surgeon and academic known for inventing board games such as Chinese checkers, Basilinda, and Halma E. H. Nichols – surgeon and clinical professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School Morton Prince – physician who specialized in neurology and abnormal psychology Thomas Morgan Rotch – pediatric doctor, first full professor of pediatrics in the United States

Military

Winthrop Astor Chanler – member of the Rough Riders in the Spanish–American War Martin Witherspoon Gary – brigadier general in the Confederate States Army and South Carolina Senate James R. Soley – Assistant Secretary of the Navy; head of the Office of Naval Records and Library; instructor at the United States Naval War College; head of the Department of English Studies, History, and Law at the United States Naval Academy Gordon Woodbury – Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Politics

Charles Francis Adams III – United States Secretary of the Navy and Mayor of Quincy Frederick Hobbes Allen – Mayor of Pelham Manor, New York; member of the Democratic National Finance Committee; member of Woodrow Wilson's Peace Commission Frederick Lothrop Ames – Massachusetts Senate Larz Anderson – United States Ambassador to Japan; United States Minister to Belgium Robert Bacon – United States Secretary of State and United States Ambassador to France William Bancroft – Massachusetts House of Representatives and Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts Franklin Bartlett – United States House of Representatives Isaac Bell Jr. – United States Ambassador to the Netherlands; cotton broker and investors in the Commercial Cable Company Perry Belmont – United States House of Representatives; United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain Franklin S. Billings – Governor of Vermont, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, and Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives Charles Sumner Bird – Progressive Party's candidate in the 1912 and 1913 Massachusetts gubernatorial elections Nathaniel B. Borden – United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate, and Massachusetts House of Representatives Lathrop Brown – United States House of Representatives Melville Bull – United States House of Representatives Edward Burnett – United States House of Representatives William A. Chanler – United States House of Representatives and New York State Assembly John Gardner Coolidge – United States Minister to Nicaragua John Sergeant Cram – president of the New York Public Service Commission; President of the Dock Board Grafton D. Cushing – Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Dwight F. Davis – Governor-General of the Philippines and United States Assistant Secretary of War Charles S. Fairchild – United States Secretary of the Treasury and Attorney General of New York William Cameron Forbes – Governor General of the Philippines and United States Ambassador to Japan George H. Forster – New York State Assembly and New York State Senate Louis A. Frothingham – United States House of Representatives, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Augustus P. Gardner – United States House of Representatives and Massachusetts Senate F. Norton Goddard – political activist, founder of the Civic Club and the Anti-Policy Society Edward D. Hayden – United States House of Representatives and Massachusetts House of Representatives Archibald M. Howe – member of the Common Council in Cambridge, Massachusetts; private secretary to congressman Henry Lillie Pierce; National Party vice-presidential candidate Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. – U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and 1st Chair of the United States Maritime Commission Henry W. Keyes – Governor of New Hampshire, United States Senate, New Hampshire Senate, and New Hampshire House of Representatives. Everett J. Lake – Governor of Connecticut, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, Connecticut Senate, Connecticut House of Representatives John E. Leonard – United States House of Representatives and associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court Robert Todd Lincoln – United States Secretary of War and Minister to the United Kingdom Henry Cabot Lodge – United States Senate and United States House of Representatives John D. Long – United States Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Massachusetts, and United States House of Representatives Nicholas Longworth – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives George H. Lyman – Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston and chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party Charles MacVeagh – United States Ambassador to Japan