William Fremont Blackman (1855–1932) was the fourth president ofRollins College from 1902 to 1915.^[1][2] He was born on September 26, 1855, in North Pitcher, New York. He attendedOberlin College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1877. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Divinity degree fromYale University in 1880 and his Ph.D. fromCornell University in 1893. He did further studies at theBerlin University (Royal Statistical Bureau, 1893) and theCollege de France in Paris (1894).

Before he joined Yale as Professor of Christian Ethics in 1893, he held pastorates at congregational churches in Steubenville, Ohio, Naugatuck, Connecticut, and Ithaca, New York. While at Yale he lectured on social philosophy and ethics, and served as editor of the Yale Review. He was appointed as President ofRollins College in 1902.

He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1910 from theUniversity of Florida. He died in 1932 and was interred inWinter Park, Florida.

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