History of Glasgow, (Howard County) Missouri United States of America

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Carr Waller Pritchett, educator, was born in Henry county, Va., Sept. 4, 1823; eldest son of Henry and Martha Myra (Waller) Pritchett; grandson of Joshua and Elizabeth (Cousins) Pritchett and of Carr and Elizabeth (Martin) Wailer; great-grandson of John Pritchett of Lunenberg county, Va., and of Gen. Joseph Martin of Henry county, Va. The ancestors of the Pritchett family come from Wales early in the eighteenth century and settled in Virginia and North Carolina, the name being spelled both Pritchett and Pritchard in the old court records. His father removed with his family to Warren county, Mo., in 1835, where Carr attended the common school, and in 1844 he began to teach in private schools In 1846 he became a licentiate in the ministry of the Methodist church, and was for many years a member of the Missouri annual conference. He was married in Pike county, Mo., Oct. 17, 1849, to Bettie Susan, daughter of Byrd and Sarah Hatcher (Woodson) Smith of Danville, Va.; she died at Glasgow, Mo., Nov. 27, 1872. He was an instructor in the Howard high school (subsequently Central college), Fayette, Mo., up to the time of its suspension in 1864; was employed in the statistical department Of the U.S. sanitary commission in Washington, D.C., 1864-66, and in 1866 founded the Pritchett School Institute at Glasgow, Mo., of which he was president until 1873, and which subsequently became Pritchett college against the written protest of Dr. Pritchett. In 1875 he became the first director of the Morrison Observatory (connected with the college), which he was enabled to establish through the generosity of Miss Berenice Morrison. This position he still held in 1903. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from St. Charles college in 1850, and LL.D. from Central college in 1885. He was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical society of London, 1879-99, and was made a member of the Virginia Historical society.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Glasgow, (Howard County) Missouri

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