![cover image](https://wikiwandv2-19431.kxcdn.com/_next/image?url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/SamuelLawsMissouri.jpg/640px-SamuelLawsMissouri.jpg&w=640&q=50)
Samuel Laws
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Spahr Laws (March 23, 1824 – January 9, 1921) was an American minister, professor, physician, college president, businessman and inventor best known today as the inventor of the Laws Gold Indicator, a predecessor of the ticker tape machine. He was an 1848 graduate and class valedictorian of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a member of the Alpha chapter of Beta Theta Pi, founded nine years before his graduation in 1839.
Quick Facts The Reverend, 7th President of the University of Missouri ...
Samuel Laws | |
---|---|
![]() | |
7th President of the University of Missouri | |
In office 1876–1889 | |
Preceded by | Daniel Read |
Succeeded by | Richard Henry Jesse |
1st President of Westminster College | |
In office 1855–1861 | |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | John Montgomery |
Personal details | |
Born | March 23, 1824 Ohio County, Virginia (present-day West Virginia), U.S. |
Died | January 9, 1921 Asheville, North Carolina, U.S. |
Resting place | Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. 39°10′16.5″N 84°31′33.6″W |
Alma mater | Miami University Princeton Theological Seminary Columbia University (LL.B.) Bellevue Hospital Medical College |
Signature | ![]() |
Close