Benjamin S. Ewell - Obit: William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 2, Page 144 DIED, Tuesday, June 19, 1894, BENJAMIN S. EWELL, LL.D., Fellow of the Royal Society, President Emeritus of William and Mary College, and late Colonel of the Thirty-second Regiment, Virginia Volunteers, C.S.A. He was truly a remarkable man. Though eighty-four years of age, he retained almost to the last his brilliant powers of conversation and inexhaustible fund of cheerfulness and wit. The College was put in mourning for his loss, and his body was deposited in the College burying-ground. He was president of the College pro tempore in 1848, and became permanent president in 1854, acting as such till his resignation, in 1888. Chiefly through Col. Ewell's exertions the Historical Catalogue of the College was prepared in 1859. I believe it is the first of its kind in the United States. After the war his loyalty to the College in its darkest hours won for him the admiration and love of every body.