ANDREW DICKSON WHITE
1832 - 1918
FRIEND AND COUNSELLOR OF
EZRA CORNELL

AND WITH HIM ASSOCIATED IN THE FOUNDING OF THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY
ITS FIRST PRESIDENT 1865 - 1885
AND FOR FIFTY YEARS A MEMBER OF ITS GOVERNING BOARD

The statue commemorates the historian, ambassador of the United States in Russia and Germany, and member of the New York Senate, Andrew Dixon White, who, together with Ezra Cornell, founded Cornell University in 1865 as an institution that advocates equality regardless of skin color or religion.
White was also the first president of the university and held the position for nearly 20 years.

The statue made by Karl Bitter in 1915, was photographed on the day the sign was photographed by the same photographer Click for a larger image

In the next photo taken by the same photographer on the same day, we can see the statue and the Goldwin Smith Hall building in front of which the statue is placed Click for a larger image