The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . 16, 1866. RUFFNEB, Henry, sixth president of Wash-ington and Lee university, was born in Page county,Va., Jan. 19, 1789, the son of Col. David and AnnRuffner. His father subsequent
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . 16, 1866. RUFFNEB, Henry, sixth president of Wash-ington and Lee university, was born in Page county,Va., Jan. 19, 1789, the son of Col. David and AnnRuffner. His father subsequently removed to thevalley of the Great Kanawha, where he was one ofthe first to manufacture salt. Henry was graduatedfrom Washington college in 1817, and during thenext two years was a teacher in Mercer academy, atCharlestown, Va. He studied theology under G. A. Baxter, at that time president of Washing-ton college, was licensed to preach by the Lexingtonpresbytery in 1819, and in the same year was ap-pointed professor in his alma mater. He retainedhis connection with the college for thirty years, fill-ing successively every professors chair. In 1886he was elected president, and filled this office until1848, when ill health compelled him to resign. Un-der President Ruflfners administration the patronageof the college became more widespread, and he be-gan to reap the benefits of the labors of his prede-. OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 165
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