Henry MacCracken

Henry MacCraken

Henry Mitchell MacCracken (1840-1918) was an American educator.

Biography

He was born in Oxford, Ohio and graduated from Miami University in Ohio in 1857. After a brief teaching career, he entered the Presbyterian ministry in 1863. From 1881 to 1884 he served as the sixth chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, then called the Western University of Pennsylvania.

In 1884 he was appointed professor of philosophy and vice chancellor of New York University, becoming chancellor in 1891. Before his retirement in 1910, the University Heights campus was acquired, a graduate school and schools of commerce and pedagogy were founded, and the university medical school was strengthened by union with Bellevue Hospital medical college.

Henry Noble MacCracken, president (1915-46) of Vassar College, and John Henry MacCracken, president (1915–26) of Lafayette College, were his sons.

A residence hall at Miami University bears his name.

References

• Alberts, Robert C. (1987). Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-1150-7. 

See T. F. Jones, New York University, 1832–1932 (1933).

Preceded by George Woods	University of Pittsburgh Chancellor 1881 – 1884	Succeeded by Milton Goff
Preceded by John Hall	President of New York University 1891-1911	Succeeded by Elmer Ellsworth Brown