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Edwin Boone Craghead Or Craighead, Dr.
Male 1861 - 1920

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  • Suffix  Dr. 
    Birth  3 Mar 1861  , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  22 Oct 1920  Missoula, Missoula, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: apoplexy 
    Obituary  23 Oct 1920  Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Kansas City Star 
    • Date: 1920-10-23;
      Paper: Kansas City Star
      (copied from Missoula Montana newspaper)
      E.B. Craighead, Ex-Educater, Dead.
      Missoula, Mont., Oct. 22 - Dr. E.B. Craighead, editor of the New Northwest and formerly president of the University of Montana and at one time head of Tulane university at New Orleans, died suddenly here late today following an attack of apoplexy. He was 59 years old.
    Buried  Hams Prairie Christian Cemetery, Hams Prairie, Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I4412  Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri
    Last Modified  13 Feb 2011 
     
    Father  Isaiah Oliver Craghead Or Craighead,   b. 25 Feb 1826, , , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Jun 1898, , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Francis Jane Payne,   b. 2 Mar 1831, , , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Apr 1916, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  29 Jul 1852  , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F92  Group Sheet
     
  • Headstones
    Edwin Boone Craighead    		 Edwin Boone Craighead
    Edwin Boone Craighead, Mar. 3, 1861 - Oct. 22, 1920. Dr. Edwin Boone Craghead was a son of Isaiah O. Craighead & Francis Jane Payne, a grandson of John R. Craghead & Sarah Hale. He was my 3rd cousin 3 times removed. On 6 Aug 1899, he married Kate A. Johnson.…
     
    Newspaper
    Work - Edwin Boone Craighead    		Work - Edwin Boone Craighead
    Article in the Fulton Weekly Gazette about Edwin B. Craighead changing jobs fro president of Tulane University to president of the University of Montana. He was my 3rd cousin 3 times removed.
     
  • Notes 
    • Edwin Boone, Dr. Craighead 3 Mar 1861 22 Oct 1920 28 Oct 1920 Fulton Telegraph, Callaway Weekly Gazette

      A biography of Edwin B. Craighead is included in "Montana, Its Story and Biography", Vol 3, page 1255. Parents: I.O. and Frances J. (Payne) Craighead. On 6 Aug 1899, Edwin married Miss Kate A. Johnson, of Fayette, MO, daughter of Dr. B.F. Johnson. Craighead children: Edwin B., Jr, Barclay, Catherine.
      The above from a post on rootsweb.

      American Biographical Library
      The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans
      Volume 3
      page 15
      Craighead, Edwin Boone, educator, was born at Ham's Prairie, Mo., March 3, 1861; son of J. O. and Fanine (Payne) Craighead; and grandson of John R. Craighead. He received his preparatory training at Westminster college, Fulton, Mo., and was graduated A.M. at Central college in 1883. He took a post-graduate course at Vanderbilt university, 1883-85, and studied in Europe, 1885-87. He was professor of Greek at Wofford college, S.C.. 1890-93; president of the South Carolina agricultural and mechanical college, 1893-97; and was elected president of Central college, Fayette, Mo., in 1897. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Missouri in 1898. He was married Aug. 6, 1889, to Kate Johnson of Fayette, Mo.

      June 7, 1912
      Fulton Gazette
      Craighead Goes to Montana
      Callaway Man Becomes President of Western University
      Dr. Edwin Boone Craighead, native Callawegian, now president of Tulane University at New Orleans, has been elected president of the University of Montana, located at Helena. Dr. Craighead will accept and begin his new work as soon as he can be released from Tulane. He thinks a wider field of usefulness is to be found at the head of a state university, and therfore gives up the Tulane presidency.
      Dr. Craighead was the unanimous choice of the board which selected him for president of the Montana institution. He was recommended by such men as Cyrus Northrup, former president of the University of Minnesota; George H. Denney, president of the University of Alabama; Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cornell University, and Edward A. Aderman, president of the University of Virginia.
      Dr. Craighead was born at Ham's Prairie, this county, March 3, 1861. He received his education at Westminster and central colleges in Missouri; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; and the universities of Leipsic and Paris. He has been president of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College, Central College at Fayette, the State Normal School at Warrensburg, and Tulane University.
     
  • Event Map
    		Event
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 3 Mar 1861 - , Callaway, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - Cause: apoplexy - 22 Oct 1920 - Missoula, Missoula, Montana, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsObituary - Kansas City Star - 23 Oct 1920 - Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Hams Prairie Christian Cemetery, Hams Prairie, Callaway, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
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