Lemuel Herbert Murlin | |
Birth Date: | 16 November 1861 |
Birth Place: | Neptune, Ohio |
Death Place: | Wayland, Michigan |
Term Start: | 1924 |
Term End: | 1928 |
Successor: | Garfield Bromley Oxnam |
Term Start2: | 1911 |
Term End2: | 1924 |
Successor2: | Daniel Lash Marsh |
Term Start3: | 1893 |
Term End3: | 1911 |
Lemuel Herbert Murlin (November 16, 1861 – June 20, 1935), was the third president of Boston University.
He was born on November 16, 1861, in Neptune, Ohio, to Orlando Murlin and Esther Hankins.[1]
He became president of Baker University in Kansas in 1893. He was named the third president of Boston University in 1911.[2]
In 1924 he became the president of DePauw University and served until 1928 when he retired due to ill health, and was replaced by Garfield Bromley Oxnam.[3]
He died on June 20, 1935, in Wayland, Michigan, predeceasing by four years his wife, whom he had married in 1893.[4]