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WADDEL, Isaac Watts, educator, was born in Marietta, Ga., Oct. 6, 1849, son of the Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts and Sarah Rebecca (Daniel) Waddel ; grandson of the Rev. Dr. Moses and Elizabeth W. (Pleasants) Waddel, and of James Kelso and Violet (Bell) Damiel. He was graduated from the University of Georgia, A. B., 1870, A.M., 1873; was licensed by tlie presbytery of Cherokee, Oc- tober, 1873, and ordained by the presbytery of Savannah, 1882. He was married, Dec. 2, 1880, to Georgia, daughter of James Barnett and Linda Catherine Blackwell of Cobb county, Ga. He was pastor at Brunswick, Ga., 1880-85 ; stated supply at Albany and Cuthbert, Ga., 1885-90; evangelist in the presbytery of Macon, 1890-93 ; president of the North Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical college, Dahlonega, Ga., 1893-98, and in 1898 was elected president of Euharlee insti- tute, Bartow county, Ga.

WADDEL, James, clergyman, was born in Newry, Ireland, in July, 1739 ; son of Thomas Waddel. Soon after his birth his parents immi- grated to America and settled on White Clay creek. Pa. He attended the Rev. Dr. Samuel Finley's school in Nottingham, Pa., subsequently becoming Dr. Finley's assistant, and was also an assistant instructor in the Rev. Robert Smith's academy at Pequea, Pa. His original intention was to enter the medical profession, but he aban- doned it for the ministry ; was licensed to preach, April 2, 1761, by the old presbytery of Hanover, Pa., and ordained at Prince Edward, June 16, 1763. He was married about 17G8, to Mary, daughter of Col, James Gordon, and re.sided on Curratoman river, until about 1776. He subse- quently held pastorates in Virginia, at Lancaster and Northumberland, in the Shenandoah valley, Augusta count}^ and Stanton. In 1786 he pur- chased an estate, "Hopewell " in Louisa county. Pa., where, although he held no special charge, he continued to preach and was also principal of a private school. His blindness, which misfortune came upon him in 1787, did not hinder his activity as a preacher or writer, and his remarkably magnetic powers won for him a reputation as one of the most eloquent orators of his time. His own manuscripts he ordered burned, but trust- worthy accounts of his fluency as a preacher are extant in an article by William Wirt, in the Brit- ish Spy, anA in a "Memoir" by the Rev. James W. Alexander, in the Watchman of the South (1846). The honorary degree of D.D. was con- ferred upon him by Dickinson college, 1792. He died in Louisa county. Va., Sept. 17, 1805.

WADDEL, John Newton, educator, was born in Willington, S.C, April 2, 1812 ; youngest son of the Rev. Moses and Elizabeth W. (Pleasants)

Waddel. He prepared for college at his father's celebrated school at Willington, and was grad- uated at the University of Georgia, A.B., 1829, A.M., 1832. He taught the academy at Willing- ton, 1830-34 ; conducted an academy at Montrose. Miss., 1842-48, and served as a trustee of the University of Mississippi, 1844-48. He was pro- fessor of ancient languages in the University of Mississippi, 1848-56 ; professor of ancient lan- guages in La Grange Synodical college, 1857-60 ; president of tiie college, 1860-62 ; commissioner from the Presbyterian synod to the Confederate army west of the Mississippi, 1863-64 ; chancellor of the University of Mississippi, 18G5-74 ; sec- retary of the board of education of the Southern Presbyterian church, 1874-88, and chancellor of the Southwestern Presbyterian universit}', Clarksville, Tenn., 1879-88, re.signing in 1888 on account of advanced age. He joined the Presby- terian church in 1839 ; was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Mississippi Sept. 5, 1841, and ordained by the presbytery of Tombigbee, Sept. 23, 1843. He preached in Mississippi, 1841-74 ; was moderator of the General Assembly at Balti- more, Md., 1868 ; and was pastor at Memphis, Tenn., 1874-79. He was instrumental in found- ing the Confederate Orphan Asylum at Tuskegee, Ala. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from the University of Nashville in 1851, and that of LL.D. from the University of Georgia in 1873. A portrait of Chancellor Waddel was unveiled in the Southwestern Presbyterian university, June 6, 1888. lie died in Birmingham, Ala.. Jan. 9, 1895. WADDEL, Moses, educator, was born in Rowan county, N.C., July 29, 1770; son of William Waddel, who emigrated from near Bel- fast, Ireland, about 1764, landed in Charleston, S.C, and settled in Rowan county, N.C. Moses Waddel attended a neighborhood school known as Clio's Nur- sery, and taught school in both his nati%-e state and in Georgia and was grad- uated from Hamp- den-Sidney college in 1791. He was licensed by the Hanover pres- bytery, Va., May 12,

1792 ; conducted a school in Columbia county, Ga., 1794-1801, and one in Vienna. Abbeville district. S.C. 1801-04. In 1804 he established a home and school at Willington, S.C, about six miles from