Andrew Armstrong Kincannon (1859-1938) was the chancellor of the
University of Mississippi
The University of Mississippi (byname Ole Miss) is a public research university that is located adjacent to Oxford, Mississippi, and has a medical center in Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and its largest by enrollment.
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from 1907 to 1914.
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He served as Mississippi's state superintendent of schools.
Biography
He was born in
Noxubee County, Mississippi
Noxubee County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, its population was 11,545. Its county seat is Macon, Mississippi, Macon. The name is derived from the ...
in on 2 August 1859.
In 1884, he graduated from the
National Normal University
National Normal University was a teacher's college in Lebanon, Ohio. Located in southwestern Ohio, it opened in 1855 as Southwestern Normal School and took the name National Normal University in 1870. Alfred Holbrook was the first president a ...
of Ohio.
He taught at Mississippi A&M College, now known as
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a public land-grant research university adjacent to Starkville, Mississippi. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Unive ...
, and was superintendent of the new public school system in
Meridian, Mississippi
Meridian is the List of municipalities in Mississippi, seventh largest city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, with a population of 41,148 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census and an estimated population in 2018 of 36,347. It is the count ...
.
He was also president of the Industrial Institute and College, now known as
Mississippi University for Women
Mississippi University for Women (MUW or "The W") is a coeducational public university in Columbus, Mississippi. It was formerly named the Industrial Institute and College for the Education of White Girls and later the Mississippi State College ...
.
From 1907 to 1914, he served as chancellor of the
University of Mississippi
The University of Mississippi (byname Ole Miss) is a public research university that is located adjacent to Oxford, Mississippi, and has a medical center in Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and its largest by enrollment.
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.
He died in
on 10 December 1938 and was buried in
Columbus, Mississippi
Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Lowndes County, on the eastern border of Mississippi, United States, located primarily east, but also north and northeast of the Tombigbee River, which is also part of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterwa ...
.
[James B. Lloyd, ''Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967'' (University Press of Mississippi, 1981), p. 282]
References
1859 births
People from Noxubee County, Mississippi
Mississippi State University faculty
Mississippi University for Women faculty
University of Mississippi people
1939 deaths
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