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James Rhea Preston (January 22, 1853 – April 3, 1922) was an educator and administrator who owned a school in Natchez, Mississippi and served as its president. He later studied law and also served as a college president in Jackson, Mississippi and served as Mississippi's superintendent of public education.[1]
Preston was born in Washington County, Virginia and studied at Georgetown University and Emory and Henry College.[1][2]
Owned and served as president of Stanton College for Young Women in Natchez, Mississippi. Later served as president of Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi.
Preston married the former Bessie Alice Vaughan in 1902.[3]
a "staunch Democrat" in 1875 he "assisted in redeeming the state from radical misrule."[4]
Further reading
[edit]- https://books.google.com/books?id=7ZAVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA31&dq="james+rhea+preston"+superintendent&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj10M2X2OmIAxXeSTABHVtRGkUQ6AF6BAgOEAM
References
[edit]- ^ a b Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi: Volume II, Part II. Pelican. April 1999. pp. 614–616. ISBN 9781565546097.
- ^ "New York School Journal". 1895.
- ^ Dorman, John Frederick (1982). The Prestons of Smithfield and Greenfield in Virginia: Descendants of John and Elizabeth (Patton) Preston Through Five Generations. Filson Club. ISBN 978-0-9601072-1-6.
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=p-fgHRVWmd0C&pg=PA614&dq="james+rhea+preston"+superintendent&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj10M2X2OmIAxXeSTABHVtRGkUQ6AF6BAgHEAM