Nathaniel Thomas Lupton
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| Born | December 30, 1830 Winchester, Virginia |
| Died |
June 11, 1893 (aged 62) Auburn, Alabama |
| Resting place | Pine Hill Cemetery |
| Education | Newark Academy Dickinson College |
| Occupation | Chemist, university professor |
| Spouse(s) | Ella Virginia Allemong |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Nathaniel Lupton Elizabeth (Hodgson) Lupton |
Nathaniel Thomas Lupton (December 30, 1830 – June 11, 1893) was an American chemist and university professor. He served as the President of the University of Alabama from 1871 to 1874. Additionally, he served as State Chemist of Alabama.
Nathaniel Thomas Lupton was born on December 30, 1830 near Winchester, Virginia. His father was Nathaniel Lupton and his mother, Elizabeth Hodgson. He was raised as a Methodist, and would remain a devout Methodist all his life. He was educated at the defunct Newark Academy in Delaware. He attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1846 to 1849, where he was a member of the Belles Lettres Society. He graduated in 1849, planning to study the Law.
He started his career teaching Chemistry at Aberdeen Female College, a Methodist women's school in Aberdeen, Mississippi. In 1852, he moved to Petersburg, Virginia, where he taught chemistry in another Methodist school. From 1854 to 1856, he served as President of Petersburg College, even though he was only twenty-four years old. In 1856, he became a Professor of Chemistry at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. He went traveling in Europe and took lessons from renowned German chemist Robert Bunsen (1811–1899) at the Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany. Back in the US, he taught chemistry at Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama (now known as Birmingham–Southern College and located in Birmingham, Alabama).
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