John Newton Waddel

Waddel was the son of Moses Waddel and Eliza Woodson Waddel.{{cite book|author=John Newton Waddel|title=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|url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsacadem01waddgoog|year=1891|publisher=Presbyterian Committee of Publication|pages=[https://archive.org/details/memorialsacadem01waddgoog/page/n50 46]–}}{{cite web|url=http://faculty.libsci.sc.edu/literarymap/authors/wadde.htm |title=John Newton Waddel |accessdate=2014-07-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725192848/http://faculty.libsci.sc.edu/literarymap/authors/wadde.htm |archivedate=2014-07-25 }} He was a graduate of the University of Georgia (1829). He worked as a cotton farmer in Alabama, taught at the Willington Academy in South Carolina, and established the Montrose Academy in Jasper County, Mississippi. A Presbyterian minister, he preached to the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He also taught at Synodical College.{{cite web|url=http://www.lagrangetn.com/presbyterian.htm|title=La Grange United Methodist Church|work=lagrangetn.com|accessdate=12 February 2016}} He then became the Chair of the Ancient Languages Department at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.{{cite web|url=http://classics.olemiss.edu/history/the-early-years/|title=Department of Classics|work=olemiss.edu|accessdate=12 February 2016}}{{cite book|author=University of Mississippi|title=Announcements and Catalogue|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=66LOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7|year=1894|pages=7–}} From 1865 to 1874, he served as its chancellor.{{cite book|author=Edward Mayes|title=History of Education in Mississippi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MRycAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA183|year=1899|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=183–}} He resigned to become secretary of education for the Presbyterian Church of the United States.{{cite book|author=Harold B. Prince|title=A Presbyterian Bibliography: The Published Writings of Ministers who Served in the Presbyterian Church in the United States During Its First Hundred Years, 1861-1961, and Their Locations in Eight Significant Theological Collections in the U.S.A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AH0bGkFJbOYC&pg=PA385|date=1 January 1983|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-1639-8|pages=385–}}

Waddel was married to Martha A. Robertson in 1832.

• [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1912873 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] (1891)

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