Andrew Armstrong Kincannon

Andrew Armstrong Kincannon (1859-1938) was the chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1907 to 1914.^[1]^[2] He served as Mississippi's state superintendent of schools.^[3]

Biography

He was born in Noxubee County, Mississippi in on 2 August 1859.^[1] In 1884, he graduated from the National Normal University of Ohio.^[1] He taught at Mississippi A&M College, now known as Mississippi State University, and was superintendent of the new public school system in Meridian, Mississippi.^[1] He was also president of the Industrial Institute and College, now known as Mississippi University for Women.^[1] From 1907 to 1914, he served as chancellor of the University of Mississippi.^[1] He died in New Orleans on 10 December 1938 and was buried in Columbus, Mississippi.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ole Miss biography Archived May 31, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
^ David G. Sansing, The University of Mississippi: A Sesquicentennial History, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1999, p. 183 [1]
^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). "Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form".
^ James B. Lloyd, Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967 (University Press of Mississippi, 1981), p. 282