Draft:Wayland Fuller Dunaway

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Wayland Fuller Dunaway Jr. (May 22, 1875-1956) was a professor and author in the United States. He wrote about various aspects of Pennsylvania's history including a history of Pennsylvania State College.

He was born in Kilmarnock, Virginia. His father, Wayland Fuller Dunaway Sr. (1841-1916), served as a captain of Company I in the 49th Virginia regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia and wrote Reminiscences of a Rebel published in 1913.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYXKKMvKT1sC&dq=wayland+fuller+dunaway&pg=PA21|title=The Edge of Mosby's Sword: The Life of Confederate Colonel William Henry Chapman|first=Gordon Blackwell|last=Bonan|date=October 9, 2009|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-8686-4 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vQYTAAAAIAAJ&dq=wayland+fuller+dunaway&pg=PA81|title=The Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon|date=April 11, 1915|publisher=Sigma Alpha Epsilon|via=Google Books}} He became a clergyman after the war.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WLlHEAAAQBAJ&dq=wayland+fuller+dunaway&pg=PT490|title=Voices of the Army of the Potomac: Personal Reminiscences of Union Veterans|first=Vincent L.|last=Burns|date=October 29, 2021|publisher=Casemate|isbn=978-1-63624-073-2 |via=Google Books}} Roberta née Pinckard Dunaway was his mother.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8LOxTJ7D_BMC&dq=wayland+fuller+dunaway&pg=PA451|title=The Minute Man|date=April 11, 1927|publisher=Sons of the American Revolution.|via=Google Books}}

He graduated from Richmond College. He became an ordained Baptist minister at Crozier Seminary{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_mExAQAAMAAJ&dq=wayland+fuller+dunaway&pg=RA5-PA127|title=Bulletin|first=Crozer Theological|last=Seminary|date=April 11, 1913|via=Google Books}} and then returned to Richmond College for his Masters degree.

He worked as a minister and principal. He married Mary May and had three children. He left the ministry and graduated with a second Masters degree from the University of Chicago after which he worked at the history department at Columbia University where he received a doctorate. He was hired as an Assistant Professor of European History at Pennsylvania State College{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=18HZAAAAMAAJ&dq=wayland+fuller+dunaway&pg=PA35|title=La Vie: Portraying by Word and Picture the Essence of Life at Penn State|date=April 11, 1921|via=Google Books}} and eventually became a full professor of American History in 1926. In 1941, he was appointed the College Historian for the Pennsylvania State College. He retired in 1944. Dunaway was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Historical Association in 1934.https://archives.libraries.psu.edu/repositories/3/resources/4001