Mcdavid, Raven Ioor

Raven Ioor McDavid, Jr. was born on October 16, 1911 in Greenville, South Carolina to Raven Ioor and Marie Louise (Henderson) McDavid. In 1929 McDavid was a summer student at the Virginia Military Academy. He received a B.A. from Furman University in Greenville in 1931, and went on to Duke University for graduate school (M.A. 1933, Ph.D 1935).

From 1935 to 1938 McDavid was an English Instructor at the Citadel, a military academy in Charleston, South Carolina. From there he went on to teach at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. During World War II McDavid served as an advanced linguist in the language section of the United States Army. In 1952 McDavid joined the faculty of Western Reserve University in Ohio, where he remained until 1957 when he joined the University of Chicago faculty as an associate professor of English. In 1964 he was given the position of professor of English and Linguistics.

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