John Newton Waddel
John Newton Waddel (born Willington, South Carolina, April 2, 1812; died 1895) was the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1865 to 1874.[1]
Biography
Waddel was the son of Moses Waddel and Eliza Woodson Waddel.[2][3] He was a graduate of the University of Georgia (1829).[1] He worked as a cotton farmer in Alabama, taught at the Willington Academy in South Carolina, and established the Montrose Academy in Jasper County, Mississippi.[1] A Presbyterian minister, he preached to the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.[1] He also taught at Synodical College.[4] He then became the Chair of the Ancient Languages Department at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.[1][5][6] From 1865 to 1874, he served as its chancellor.[1][4][7] He resigned to become secretary of education for the Presbyterian Church of the United States.[1][8]
Waddel was married to Martha A. Robertson in 1832.[3]
Bibliography
- Memorials of academic life: being an historical sketch of the Waddel family, identified through three generations with the history of the higher education in the South and Southwest (1891)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Ole Miss biography Archived 2010-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ John Newton Waddel (1891). Memorials of Academic Life: Being an Historical Sketch of the Waddel Family, Identified Through Three Generations with the History of the Higher Education in the South and Southwest. Presbyterian Committee of Publication. pp. 46–.
- ^ a b "John Newton Waddel". Archived from the original on 2014-07-25. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
- ^ a b "La Grange United Methodist Church". lagrangetn.com. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ^ "Department of Classics". olemiss.edu. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ^ University of Mississippi (1894). Announcements and Catalogue. pp. 7–.
- ^ Edward Mayes (1899). History of Education in Mississippi. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 183–.
- ^ Harold B. Prince (1 January 1983). A Presbyterian Bibliography: The Published Writings of Ministers who Served in the Presbyterian Church in the United States During Its First Hundred Years, 1861-1961, and Their Locations in Eight Significant Theological Collections in the U.S.A. Scarecrow Press. pp. 385–. ISBN 978-0-8108-1639-8.
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