McBryde, John McLaren

Educator and Confederate officer during Civil War; native of Abbeville District, S.C.; proponent of scientific agricultural methods; taught agriculture at the University of Tennessee, 1879-82, and was president of South Carolina College, 1882-91, and Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1891-1907, which he transformed into Virginia Polytechnic Institute. McBryde was father of J.M. McBryde, Jr. (1870-1956), an English professor at Sweet Briar College and the University of the South, where he edited the "Sewanee Review," 1909-1919.

John McLaren McBryde (1841-1923), a foremost proponent of scientific agricultural methods, taught agriculture at the University of Tennessee, 1879-82, and was president of South Carolina College, 1882-91, and Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1891-1907, which he transformed into Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Charles William Dabney (1855-1945) was a professor of chemistry in North Carolina and Tennessee, 1887-1904, and president of the University of Cincinnati, 1904-20.

J.C. Hemphill was the editor of the (Charleston, S.C.) News and Courier in 1904.

John Thompson Brown, of Brierfield, Bedford County, Virginia, was on the Board of Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1904.

Edwin Willits was Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in 1893.

Henry Elijah Alvord (1844-1904), an educator and specialist in dairy husbandry, held numerous agricultural teaching positions in land-grant colleges. In 1892-93 he chaired the executive committee of the Association of American Colleges and Experiment Stations.

Edward Atkinson (1827-1905), an industrialist and economist, helped found the Boston Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company.

Daniel Coit Gilman (1831-1908) was president of John Hopkins University, 1875-1902, a founder of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902-05, and an original trustee of the John F. Slater Fund and president, 1893-1908.

Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902), an agriculturist and Nebraska politician, was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1893-97.

Carter Glass (1858-1946) served in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1899-1902, and Senate, 1902-04, representing Campbell County and Lynchburg. He was on the committee to select a new president of the University of Virginia.