Robert Clarkson Clothier
| Robert Clarkson Clothier | |
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January 8, 1885 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | March 18, 1970 (aged 85) Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania |
| Predecessor | Philip Milledoler Brett |
| Successor | Lewis Webster Jones |
| Parent(s) | Agnes Evans (1849–1900) Clarkson Clothier (1846–1917). |
Robert Clarkson Clothier (January 8, 1885 – March 18, 1970) was the fourteenth President of Rutgers University serving from 1932 to 1951.
Robert was born in 1885 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Agnes Evans (1849–1900) and Clarkson Clothier (1846–1917). Clarkson was the brother of Isaac H. Clothier, one of the founders of Strawbridge and Clothier, the Philadelphia department store. After the death of his wife, Clarkson married Florence Merwin (c1860-1938). Robert had three sisters: Marion Clothier (1879–1973), Edith Clothier (1881-?), and Florence (1883–1888).
Robert attended The Haverford School from 1894 to 1903; then attended Princeton University where he was editor-in-chief of the Daily Princetonian, and a member of the senior council. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from Princeton in 1908, then worked for the Wall Street Journal as a reporter, and was the employment manager of Curtis Publishing Company. During World War I he was at the War Department's committee on classification of personnel, and was later commissioned a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. He then served as a special representative for the Secretary of War. After the War he helped organize Scott Company, which were consultants in human resources. He then joined The Haverford School as assistant headmaster and then as headmaster. He married Nathalie Cowgill Wilson (1886–1966) on June 24, 1916 and had three children: Agnes Evans Clothier (1917–1961), Arthur Wilson Clothier (1919–1942) and Robert Clarkson Clothier, Jr. (1925–2003). In 1929, Clothier was appointed Dean of Men at the University of Pittsburgh.
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