Miami's New President

Article taken from The Massillion Independent, August 17, 1899

Rev. Dr.David Stanton Tappan of Portsmouth elected to succeed Dr.Thompson

CINCINATTI- Aug. 16- The trustees of Miami University, at Oxford, O., met here and elected Rev.David Stanton Tappan, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Portsmouth, to succeed Dr.Thompson as president of the University. Dr.Thompson was recently elected president of Ohio State University at Columbus. Dr.Tappan's father and grandfather were noted educational workers and his mother was a sister of Edwin M.Stanton, secretary war under Lincoln.