Background
JESSE, Richard Henry was born on March 1, 1853 in Ball Farm (home of Washington’s mother), Lancaster, Company Virginia. Son of W. T. Jesse and Mary Claybrook.
JESSE, Richard Henry was born on March 1, 1853 in Ball Farm (home of Washington’s mother), Lancaster, Company Virginia. Son of W. T. Jesse and Mary Claybrook.
Hanover Academy; University of Virginia. Europe. Doctor of Laws, Tulane University, 1891. University of Wisconsin, 1904.
South Carolina College, 1905. Missouri Valley College, 1906. Washington University, 1907.
University of Missouri, 1908.
Chairman, Section Higher Education, N. E. A., 1898. President of National Association of State Universities, 1905-1906. President State Teachers Association of Missouri, 1899.
President Southern Association Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1903 and 1905. Instructor in French and Mathematics, Hanover Academy, 1875-1876. Dean of Academic Department, University of Louisiana, 187S-84.
Professor of Latin, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1884-1891. A member of the Committee of Ten, 1893 (National Educational Association). Delegate from the United States to first International Congress of Radiology in Belgium, 1905.
Offered retirement on Carnegie Foundation. Offer accepted after July 1, 1908. Emeritus Professor of Ancient and Mediaeval History, University of Missouri, 1909. President of University of Missouri 1891-1908.