Alexander S. Webb
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Alexander Stewart Webb was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg. After the war, he was a prominent member of New York Society and served as president of the City College of New York for thirty-three years.
Alexander S. Webb
Statue at Gettysburg by J. Massey Rhind
Statue of Alexander S. Webb at City College of New York campus in Harlem, New York City
City College of New York
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The City College of the City University of New York is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. Founded in 1847, City College was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States. It is the oldest of CUNY's 25 institutions of higher learning and is considered its flagship institution.
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Original St. Nicholas Terrace entrance to Shepard Hall, the main building of CCNY, in the early 1900s, on its new campus in Hamilton Heights, looking up and westward from St. Nicholas Avenue
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Statue of General Alexander S. Webb (1835–1911), second president of CCNY (1869–1903)