Samuel Laws | |
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| 7th President of the University of Missouri | |
| In office 1876–1889 | |
| Preceded by | Daniel Read |
| Succeeded by | Richard Henry Jesse |
| 1st President of Westminster College | |
| In office 1855–1861 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | John Montgomery |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 23, 1824 Ohio County, Virginia (present-day West Virginia), U.S. |
| Died | January 9, 1921 Asheville, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Resting place | Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. 39°10′16.5″N 84°31′33.6″W / 39.171250°N 84.526000°W |
| Alma mater | Miami University Princeton Theological Seminary Columbia University (LL.B.) Bellevue Hospital Medical College |
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Samuel Spahr Laws (March 23, 1824 – January 9, 1921) was an American minister, professor, physician, college president, businessman and inventor best known today as the inventor of the Laws Gold Indicator, a predecessor of the ticker tape machine. He was an 1848 graduate and class valedictorian of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a member of the Alpha chapter of Beta Theta Pi, founded nine years before his graduation in 1839.