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.

From the description of John McLaren McBryde papers, 1883-1945. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 746868012

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