John Newton Waddel

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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]

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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]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ole Miss biography Archived 2010-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ 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–.
  3. 1 2 "John Newton Waddel". Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  4. 1 2 "La Grange United Methodist Church". lagrangetn.com. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Department of Classics". olemiss.edu. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ University of Mississippi (1894). Announcements and Catalogue. pp. 7–.
  7. ↑ Edward Mayes (1899). History of Education in Mississippi. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 183–.
  8. ↑ Harold B. Prince (January 1, 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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