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Pyon Su (or Penn Su), who received his B.S. degree in 1891, was the first Korean student to graduate from any American college or university. He was born in Korea in 1861 and entered the Maryland Agricultural College in the fall of 1887. He was killed in College Park in a tragic train accident on October 22, 1891. He is buried in St. Joseph’s Cemetery at Ammendale in Beltsville, Md.
— University of Maryland A to Z: MAC to Millennium (“Letter I”). University of Maryland Libraries.
