BP03 - Ignatius Alphonso Few (1836-1839)
The first president of Emory University, Ignatius Alphonso Few was a Princeton-educated lawyer, a planter, and an agnostic skeptic-turned-Methodist. Emory College classes began on September 17, 1838 for fifteen students. Total costs for each student during that first year amounted to forty dollars for tuition, about eighty-five for board in the steward’s hall, five for a room, three for fuel, and two for general repairs to the buildings – in all, $135. Few served as Emory’s president for a brief period until poor health forced him to resign in 1839.

The Few apartment is located in the Undergraduate Residential Center. This spacious two bedroom, two bath apartment is 1,147 square feet in size.