Addison Clark

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| birth_place = Titus County, Texas

| death_date = May 1911 (aged 68)

| death_place = Comanche, Texas

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Addison Clark (1842–1911) was a co-founder and the first president of Texas Christian University (TCU).{{cite web|last=Moudy|first=James M.|title=Clark, Addison|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fcl02|work=Handbook of Texas online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=2011-03-10}}

Biography

Addison Clark was born in Titus County, Texas on December 11, 1842.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z9kbAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA106 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=VI |publisher=James T. White & Company |pages=106–107 |year=1896 |access-date=2020-11-26 |via=Google Books}}

He served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

In 1873, he and his brother Randolph founded Add-Ran Male & Female College in Thorp Spring, Texas, and he served as its first president. The school was later renamed Texas Christian University.

Addison Clark died at his daughter's home in Comanche, Texas in May 1911.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64064570/founder-of-tcu-dead-at-comanche/ |title=Founder of T.C.U. Dead at Comanche |newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |page=1 |date=1911-05-14 |access-date=2020-11-26 |via=Newspapers.com}}

References

Category:Texas Christian University

Category:Heads of universities and colleges in the United States

Category:1842 births

Category:1911 deaths

Category:University and college founders

Category:Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) clergy