Lemuel Herbert Murlin
# Lemuel Herbert Murlin

Lemuel Herbert Murlin (November 16, 1861 – June 20, 1935), was the third president of Boston University.

## Biography

He was born on November 16, 1861, in Neptune, Ohio, to Orlando Murlin and Esther Hankins.

He became president of Baker University in Kansas in 1893. He was named the third president of Boston University in 1911.

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.

He died on June 20, 1935, in Wayland, Michigan, predeceasing by four years his wife, whom he had married in 1893.

