Charles William Rivers
Charles William Rivers graduated with the first class of the Missouri Dental College in 1867, though he had begun studying and practicing dentistry earlier in both St. Louis and Pittsfield, Illinois. Rivers joined the Missouri State Dental Association in 1866 and the Illinois State Dental Society in 1868.
He was a member of the first Board of Trustees of the Missouri Dental College, serving from 1866 until 1875. He also served as the dean of the faculty and professor of Operative Dentistry during the school’s 1874-75 session. In 1874 Rivers was elected president of the Missouri State Dental Association and the St. Louis Dental Society. Rivers died of tuberculosis in 1877 in Atlanta, Georgia.