Andrew Forest Muir (January 8, 1916February 3, 1969) was an American historian and university professor.
Early life
Andrew Forest Muir was born on January 8, 1916, in Houston to J.B. and Annie Jane (Ewing) Muir. He grew up in Houston and attended public schools. He enrolled at the
Rice University and earned a baccalaureate degree in 1838.
Career
Muir remained at Rice University until he completed his master's degree in 1942. He moved to Austin, where he entered the
University of Texas. Before earning his doctorate in 1949, he taught at various schools in
Hawaii. During most of the 1950s, he taught at
Daniel Baker College
Daniel Baker College was founded April 5, 1889 in Brownwood, Texas, United States. It was named in memory of the Rev. Dr. Daniel Baker, a Presbyterian circuit-riding minister, who helped organize the first presbytery in Texas in 1840 and Austin ...
in
Brownwood, Texas, and at the
Polytechnic Institute in
Puerto Rico. Rice University hired him as a professor of history in 1957, where he was also a
Guggenheim Scholar
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
.
Muir was also a writer and editor. He wrote a column for the ''Houston Post'' and he wrote entries for the ''Handbook of Texas''. Muir was associate editor of the ''Journal of Southern History'' and editor of the memoir, ''Texas in 1837''.
Death and legacy
Muir died in Houston on February 3, 1969. At his death, he was researching the biography of
William Marsh Rice, the founder of Rice University. These notes were edited and published posthumously in 1972.
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1916 births
1969 deaths
Rice University alumni
University of Texas alumni
Daniel Baker College
Rice University faculty
20th-century American biographers
20th-century American historians
Historians from Texas
People from Houston