Carr Waller Pritchett, Sr.

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1823 – 1910

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Who was Carr Waller Pritchett, Sr.?

Carr Waller Pritchet, Sr. 1823-1910 was an American educator and astronomer. He was the first President of Pritchett College in Glasgow, Missouri and the first director of the Morrison Observatory, also in Glasgow.

C. W. Pritchett was born on 4 September 1823 in Henry County Virginia; the oldest of ten children to Henry Pritchett and Martha Myra Waller. The family moved in 1835 first to St. Charles, Missouri and then to eastern Warren County Missouri. At the age of 21 he attended St. Charles College; in 1844 he began teaching and in 1846 became what was then known as a licentiate of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

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1823
Died
1910

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on July 23, 2013

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