John Newton Waddel

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John Newton Waddel was the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1865 to 1874.^[1]

Biography

He was a graduate of the University of Georgia.^[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.^[2] He then became the Chair of the Ancient Languages Department at the University of Mississippi.^[1] From 1865 to 1874, he served as its chancellor.^[1]^[2] He resigned to become secretary of education for the Presbyterian Church of the United States.^[1]

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

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Ole Miss biography
↑ 2.0 2.1 La Grange

v t e Chancellors of the University of Mississippi

Holmes Longstreet Barnard Waddel Stewart Mayes Fulton Kincannon Powers Hume Butts Williams Fortune Turner Khayat Jones

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