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AUGHERTY, JEROME, educator, president of Georgetown university, Washington, District of Columbia, is a native of Maryland, and was born in Baltimore, March 25, 1849. His father was James M. Daugherty, a printer of that city, and his mother was Rose A. Wivel, a descendant of Valentine Wivel, or Weivel, the earliest progenitor of the family in America. His mother exerted a strong influence over his boyhood life, both educationally and morally, and though left to his own choice in the matter of a vocation, this home influence was a large factor in the final determination.

He was brought up and passed his early life entirely in a city atmosphere. He attended St. Vincent's parish school, Baltimore, from 1858 to 1863, and then entered the preparatory department of Loyola college, in the same city, where he spent two additional years. Having early decided to enter the priesthood of the Catholic church, he joined the ranks of the Society of Jesus of that church, spending the years 1865 to 1869 at Frederick, Maryland, and pursuing a course of professional study, in Woodstock college, Woodstock, Maryland. Ordained to the priesthood of the church, his career has been that of a teacher — chiefly of the ancient languages and mathematics. In 1872 he was appointed on the faculty of Georgetown college. Subsequently he was professor of Latin and Greek in Boston college, Boston, Massachusetts, and in St. Francis Xavier college, New York. During his professional experience Father Daugherty evinced unusual administrative and executive ability, in addition to his qualifications as a linguistic scholar; and from July, 1901, to 1905, he was president of Georgetown university. This institution has been, therefore, closely associated with his earliest experiences as a teacher and his most mature services as an educator. Denied robustness of health, he has nevertheless exhibited marked zeal and praiseworthy persistence in behalf of religious and secular education. He is of firm and positive, though gentle nature, a sympathetic instructor and guide of young men, a man of civic pride and moral enthusiasm, and must be ranked among the notable educators of his church.