Carr Waller Pritchett Sr. (1823–1910) was an American educator and astronomer. He served briefly as president of
Central College just before the
American Civil War. He then became the first president of
Pritchett School Institute in
Glasgow, Missouri, after the war, and he was the first director of the
Morrison Observatory, also in Glasgow. (The observatory was moved to
Fayette, Missouri
Fayette is a city in and the county seat of Howard County, Missouri, United States. It is part of the Columbia, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 2,803 at the 2020 census.
History
Fayette was laid out in 1823. Th ...
, in the early 1930s).
C. W. Pritchett was born on September 4, 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 (the first
Protestant College west of the
Mississippi River); in 1844 he began teaching and in 1846 became what was then known as a licentiate of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South. (The equivalent of an ordained minister in today's
United Methodist Church).
See also
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Henry Smith Pritchett
References
Article from Harvard on Pritchett's death
1823 births
1910 deaths
People from Henry County, Virginia
People from Warren County, Missouri
Methodists from Missouri
Southern Methodists
People from Glasgow, Missouri
Scientists from Virginia
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