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Henry Smith Pritchett
Henry Smith Pritchett (April 16, 1857 – August 28, 1939) was an American astronomer and educator.
Biography.
Pritchett was born on April 16, 1857 in Fayette, Missouri, the son of Carr Waller Pritchett, Sr., and attended Pritchett College in Glasgow, Missouri, receiving an A.B. in 1875.
He then took instruction from Asaph Hall for two years at the US Naval Observatory after which he was made an assistant astronomer. In 1880, he returned to Glasgow to
Public Instruction (1890), Professor of Mathematics and later, president of Sam Houston Normal Institute (1881-1908)
- Henry Smith Pritchett, President of MIT and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
References.
- Bentley, Judy and Kathy Hagedorn, eds. "Glasgow - The Way it Was". Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 2001.
- Smith, T. Berry (1932). “Pritchett College,” "Missouri Historical Review", 26:223-235