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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
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John Newton Waddel was the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1865 to 1874. Also he was a Presbyterian clergyman and educator
Background
John Newton Waddel was born at Willington, South Carolina, the son of Elizabeth Woodson (Pleasants) and Moses Waddel. He pronounced his surname as did his father. He is reputed to have said that he had "waddeled" through life thus far and could "waddle" on to the end.
Education
He received his early education in a neighborhood school and in a grammar school at Athens, Georgia. He graduated from Franklin College (the University of Georgia) in 1829.
Career
Upon graduation he taught for several years in his father's old academy at Willington. In 1837 he removed to Alabama and from there to Mississippi, where, in 1842, he established the Montrose Academy, which became an educational center of that part of Mississippi. Being made a charter member of the board of trustees, he took a leading part in the founding of the University of Mississippi at Oxford. On October 23, 1843, he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry and supplied a group of churches in and around Montrose. From 1848 to 1857 he taught ancient languages in the University of Mississippi and during this period also supplied the Presbyterian Church at Oxford. In 1857 he resigned to go to the Presbyterian Synodical College at La Grange, Tennessee, to teach ancient languages and in 1860 became president of that institution. When the Federal army occupied La Grange in December 1862 he received official orders to discontinue his labors as a minister in that place. Thereupon he slipped through the Federal lines and later became a chaplain in the Confederate army. Later still he was placed in charge of all the chaplains connected with the army of Joseph E. Johnston. In the meantime he had taken a leading part in the organization of the first General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church at Augusta, Georgia, in December 1861 and was stated clerk of that body from 1861 to 1865. In 1868 he was elected moderator of the General Assembly, the highest office in the gift of his church. At the close of the Civil War he became chancellor of the University of Mississippi. As chancellor he made a tour of the leading colleges and universities of America, seeking for his own university the best things that could be found in the leading institutions of this country. In 1874 he resigned the chancellorship. From 1874 to 1879 he was secretary of education for the Southern Presbyterian Church, with headquarters in Memphis. From 1879 to 1888 he was chancellor of the Southwestern Presbyterian University at Clarksville, Tenn. He wrote numerous articles for the religious papers and reviews, a short history of the University of Mississippi, Historical Discourse on the University of Mississippi (1873), and Memorials of Academic Life: Being an Historical Sketch of the Waddel Family (1891). He was a faithful minister of the Gospel, but he was prominently an educator whether in the academy, in the university, or in the pulpit. He died in Birmingham, Alabama. He died in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Connections
On November 27, 1832, he was married to Martha A. Robertson. They had eight children. His wife died in 1851, and on August 24, 1854, he was married to Mary A. Werden of Berkshire County, Massachussets, who died in 1862 after some years of invalidism. On January 31, 1866, was married to his third wife, Harriet (Godden) Snedecor.