Career
He was the first President of Pritchett College in Glasgow, Missouri and the first director of the Morrison Observatory, also in Glasgow. (The observatory was moved to Fayette, Missouri during the early 1930s). C. West. Pritchett was born on September 4, 1823 in Henry County Virginia.
The oldest of ten children to Henry Pritchett and Martha Myra Waller.
The family moved in 1835 first to Saint Charles, Missouri and then to eastern Warren County Missouri.
