Dr. Edward Wadsworth, LaGrange College (1846-1852)

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University of North Alabama Archives and Special Collections, University Collection-University Portraits, Individual: Presidents, LaGrange-Present, Collier Library 

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UPI: 6.2/ UPI: 6.21

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Edward Wadsworth was born in Newberne, North Carolina in 1811. He "converted" on September 24, 1829, and in February 1831, was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church's Virgina Conference. He became vice president of the Virginia Temperance Society and also became chaplain at Randolph-Macon College (a Methodist college) in Athens, Virginia. At the same time, he enrolled at Randolph-Macon as a student and received his A.B. degree in 1841 and his A.M. degree in 1844.

In the fall of 1846, he was named the second president of LaGrange College and was also appointed Professor of Mental and Moral Science. In 1847, Randolph-Macon College and Emory & Henry College conferred on Wadsworth the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. He resigned the presidency of LaGrange College in the fall of 1852 and returned to preaching.

He taught English and belles-lettres at the University of Nashville from 1853-1855. He helped establish the Methodist-affiliated Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama, where he was a professor in moral philosophy from 1859-1863. He became acting president of the university from June 1868-Febraury 1871, when he resigned as professor. He died in 1883 in Greensboro, Alabama.

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1-23-2026

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