Bio – Haggerty, William Armistead

Haggarty, William Armistead (A.M., S.T.B., Ph.D.)

Born: April 12, 1872 (Mannington, Marion County, West Virginia)

Died: August 12, 1955


Education:

  • Fairmont State Normal School
  • West Virginia Conference Seminary (1897) – Classical Course
  • A.B. Ohio Wesleyan University (1900)
  • S.T.B.  Boston University (1903)
  • A.M. Harvard University (1904)
  • Ph.D. Boston University (1906)
  • D.D. West Virginia Wesleyan College (1922)

Served:

  • First Dean of the College; Registrar
  • Advisory Committee on Students’ Organizations (1908)

Taught:

  • Normal Branches and English (1894-1898)
  • Philosophy and English Bible (1908)
  • Philosophy, Pedagogy, and English Bible (1909)

Notes:

  • President Doney named William A. Haggerty as the first dean of the college. Before that time, Frank B. Trotter took care of many of these duties in his role as Vice President.

Sources:

  • Baltimore Conference Journal, 1956, page 258
  • Catalog: 1894-1909

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PLM 7/16/18