William Watts Folwell

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William Watts Folwell (near Geneva, New York, 1833 – 1929) was a President of the University of Minnesota.

Folwell was just 36, and a Civil War veteran, when he became the University's first president, serving from 1869 to 1884. When Folwell assumed the University presidency there was but a single building, and the library consisted of only a 16 volume encyclopedia.

Folwell later became President of the Minnesota Historical Society serving there from 1924 to 1927.

[edit] Publications

Books written by Folwell:

Folwell, William Watts (1908). Minnesota, the North Star State. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.. OCLC 409032.
Folwell, William Watts (1909). University Addresses. Minneapolis: H.W. Wilson. OCLC 6362596.
Folwell, William Watts (1918). Economic Addresses. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. OCLC 6389162.
Folwell, William Watts (1921–1930). A History of Minnesota. St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society. OCLC 376916.
Folwell, William Watts; Buck, Solon J. (1933). William Watts Folwell; The Autobiography and Letters of a Pioneer of Culture. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press. OCLC 2287639.

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