Wilkinson, Robert Shaw, 1865-1932

  1. Wilkinson, Robert Shaw, 1865-1932
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1865 Feb.18 Born in Charleston, S.C., to Charles and Lavinia A. Wilkinson n.d. Attended Avery Institute in Charleston, S.C. 1884 1885 Attended West Point Military Academy, N.Y. 1891 Earned A.B. degree, Oberlin College, Ohio 1891 1895 Appointed Professor of Latin and Greek, State University of Kentucky 1896 Appointed Professor of Mathematics at the Colored, Normal, Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina, Orangeburg, S.C. 1897 Married Marion Raven Birnie. Children born to this union: Helen Raven, Robert Shaw, Jr., Frost Birnie, and Lula Love Wilkinson. 1896 1900 Appointed Professor of Mathematics of the Colored, Normal, Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina 1900 1911 Named Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Colored, Normal, Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina, Organgeburg, S.C. 1904 Earned Ph.D. degree, Columbia University, N.Y. 1922 Earned A.M. degree, Oberlin College 1911 1932 Named President of the Colored, Normal, Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina 1932 Mar. 13 Died at age 67

Source: Papers of Robert Shaw Wilkinson, Box 205-1 MSRC, Howard University; Additional Material: South Carolina State University Archives

From the guide to the Robert Shaw Wilkinson Papers, 1917-1932, (Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University)
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