Moses Waddell
| Moses Waddell | |
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| 5th President of the University of Georgia |
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In office 1819 – August 1829 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Finley |
| Succeeded by | Alonzo S. Church |
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June 20, 1770 Rowan County, North Carolina, British America |
| Died | July 21, 1840 (aged 70) Athens, Georgia, United States |
| Alma mater | Hampden–Sydney College |
| Profession | Educator |
Moses Waddell (June 20, 1770 – July 21, 1840) was an American educator and minister in antebellum Georgia and South Carolina. Famous as a teacher during his life, Moses Waddell was author of the bestselling book Memoirs of the Life of Miss Caroline Elizabeth Smelt.
Born in 1770 in Rowan County, North Carolina, Waddell graduated in 1791 from Hampden–Sydney College with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.). He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Hanover (of Hanover County, Virginia).
Waddell (pronounced Wa-dell) began his ministry in the South Carolina Lowcountry; but coming to view Charleston's sophistication as sinful, he departed for the backwoods Upcountry. In 1794, he founded his first 'log cabin academy' at Carmel near Appling in Columbia County, Georgia. In 1801 Waddell moved back across the Savannah River, to Vienna (now defunct), South Carolina, and then to Willington, where he founded the famous Willington Academy in 1804.
These college-preparatory schools trained the future elite of Georgia and South Carolina with a strict classical education, in an environment shrewdly calculated by Waddell to foster self-reliance and self-motivation. Graduates generally entered university at the junior year. The Debating Society in Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes takes place at Willington and, as written by Longstreet himself, "is as literally true as the frailty of memory would allow it to be."
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