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Life Story of an Educational Pioneer
Vice-President W. H. McGruder of Mis
sissippi “A. & M.” College at
Starkville.
Thousands of sad hearts in Missis
sippi and scattered widely over the
South will mingle their tears with his
stricken friends at “dear old Stark
dale” because of the death last week
of Prof. W. H. Magruder. For near
ly thirty years he had filled the chair
of English at the famous A. & M.
College, and during these three dec
ades he won and impressed for good
thousands of young men who are now
engaged in constructive leadership in
the nation’s best upbuilding. The ed
itor of The Golden Age feels a keen
personal bereavement in the death of
Dr. Magruder, for he carries now and
will carry through life, delightful
memories of the pleasant fellowship
with the A. & M.’s “grand old man”
on the occasion of frequent visits to
Starksville. A correspondent of The
Commercial Appeal gives the follow
ing highly interesting life story of this
honored pioneer in Mississippi’s edu
cational history:
Starkville, Miss., July 29. —Prof. W.
H. Magruder, vice-president of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
who died here Sunday, was one of the
foremost educators in Mississippi.
Prof. W. H. Magruder was born
April 3, 1837, in Madison county, Miss.,
near Canton. His patriotic ancestors,
of Scotch-English blood on the pa
ternal side, were from Prince George’s
County, Maryland; on the maternal,
from Fairfax County, Virginia. His
father immigrated into the territory of
Mississippi during Jefferson’s second
adm’nistration and settled near old
Washington, then the capital of the
territory, and afterward the first cap
ital of the state.
Prof. Magruder was educated at
home until his fifteenth year, when
he was sent to a preeparatory school
at Woodville, Miss., of which his old
er brother was the principal, where
he was fitted for the sophomore class,
Centenary College, Louisiana. After
completing the sophomore course, he
returned to Central Mississippi and at
the age of 17 years he began his ca
reer as a teacher in charge of a town
ship free school in Yazoo county.
A Soldier True and Brave.
Having been appointed principal of
the preparatory department of Madi
son College, Sharon, Miss., he receiv
ed in 1857 his degree of bachelor of
arts from that institution. He taught
continuously until the beginning of
the Civil War, when he enlisted as a
private in Walthall’s Twenty ninth
Mississippi Regiment, just after the
battle of Fishing Creek, having pre
viously been a member of the Madison
Rifles from Canton, though never hav
ing been in active service. He serv
ed faithfully through the war, surren
dering with Joe Johnson at High
Point, N. C., and at that time he com
manded Company B, Twenty-fourth
Mississippi Regiment. He was wound
ed four times, once at Murfreesboro,
Tenn., once at Resaca, Ga., and twice
a: Atlanta. After the surrender he
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returned to his home and resumed
his work as a teacher of boys at
Richland, Holmes county. Removing
in 1869 to Goodman, five miles away,
whither the village of Richland had
already transferred the most of its
business and a majority of its inhabi
tants, he taught there until 1872,
when he was elected principal of the
Canton Male Academy. In 1875 he
was elected principal of Canton Fe
male Institute, in which position he
remained until his selection as profes
sor of English in the Mississippi Ag
ricultural and Mechanical College.
During his incumbency of the princi
palship of Canton Female Institute he
received from Centenary College,
Louisiana, the degree of master of
arts, and since being at the A. & M.
College the honorary degree of doc
tor of laws was conferred on him by
the University of Mississippi.
Since 1889 Prof. Magruder has been
the senior member of the faculty and,
in addition to his regular duties in the
department of English, he served as
acting president whenever the execu
tive was not on duty. He officiated
in this capacity for three months at
one time in 1890, during the session
of the Mississippi Constitutional Con
vention, while Gene. Lee was away at
tending it as a member, being a dele
gates from Oktibbeha county. And in
later years the board of trustees ap
pointed him as vice president of the
college.
A Devout Episcopalian.
For the past thirty years Prof. Ma
gruder has been the distinguished
head of the department of English in
the Mississippi Agricultural and Me
chanical College and his diligent work
has been crowned with marked suc
cess. In his teaching he always pre
sented the fundamental principles of
the subject in a clear, distinct and
forcible manner, and then dwelt upon
them and their application sufficient
ly long to produce a vivid and last
ing impression. At the end of the ses
sion one could always see how each
particular part had been planned to
fit nicely into its assigned place. Pos
sessing these inborn traits of mind
which have been developed by wise
culture and ripened by experience he
has influenced and impressed more
men with his teaching than possibly
any other educator in the South. His
students always remember him with
admjration and pay loyal homage to
him as a great teacher.
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