{"id":850,"date":"2014-01-28T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T15:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=850"},"modified":"2017-07-14T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T17:11:32","slug":"broun-william-le-roy-1827","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"BROUN, WILLIAM LE ROY, 1827-1902"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor, college president. Born&#8211; October 1, 1827, Middleburg (Loudoun County), Va. Parents&#8211; Edwin Conway and Elizabeth (Channel) Broun. Married&#8211; Sallie J. Fleming, November 1, 1859. Children&#8211; Seven. Education&#8211; University of Virginia, A. M.,\u00a0 1850; postgraduate course in mathematics and German at UVA, 1852.\u00a0\u00a0Taught at Oakland College in Mississippi, 1852-1854; University of Georgia, 1854-1856. stablished and served as president of Bloomfield Academy in Virginia, 1857-61.\u00a0 Served in the\u00a0 Confederate Army as\u00a0commandant of the Richmond Arsenal, 1863-65; attained rank of lieutenant colonel. After the war he taught at the University of Georgia, Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1865-75), Vanderbilt University (1875-1882), University of Texas (1883-84), and served twice as president of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1882-1883 and 1884-1902. Led in focusing the\u00a0curriculum on agriculture and mechanical arts; increased state support for the\u00a0school. Considered one of Auburn&#8217;s most important leaders. \u00a0Awarded honorary degrees by St. Johns College, Maryland (1874) and the University of Georgia (1892).\u00a0Died January 24, 1902.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1; National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 19; Dr. William Le Roy Broun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. William Le Roy Broun. New York; Neale Publishing Co., 1912.<\/p>\n<p>The Richmond Arsenal. Baltimore, 1869. (extracted from the New Edition Magazine, v.4, April 1867.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Papers of President William Leroy Broun are held in the special collections department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University professor, college president. Born&#8211; October 1, 1827, Middleburg (Loudoun County), Va. Parents&#8211; Edwin Conway and Elizabeth (Channel) Broun. Married&#8211; Sallie J. Fleming, November 1, 1859. Children&#8211; Seven. Education&#8211; University of Virginia, A. M.,\u00a0 1850; postgraduate course in mathematics and German at UVA, 1852.\u00a0\u00a0Taught at Oakland College in Mississippi, 1852-1854; University of Georgia, 1854-1856. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}