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]
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