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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    WM. LeROY BROUN, M. A., LL.D., President of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College, was born in Loudoun County, Va., in 1827. His parents were Edwin Conway
and Elizabeth Broun, natives of the same State. His father was of Scotch
ancestry and lived in Virginia up to the time of his death, in 1840.

    The subject of this sketch received his collegiate education at the
University of Virginia, and graduated with the degree of Master of Arts from
that institution in 1850. In 1852 he was elected to a professorship in a college
in Mississippi, and filled the chair to which he was called, two years. He was
then chosen to the chair of Mathematics in the University of Georgia, at Athens,
and discharged the functions of that position for two years. In the year 1857,
he organized Bloomfield Academy, situated near the University of Virginia, and
conducted that school until 1861.

    Professor Broun, at this juncture, entered the Confederate service as a
lieutenant of artillery; was shortly afterward promoted to the rank of
lieutenant-colonel in the Ordnance Department. C. S. A., and was assigned to
duty as commandant of the Richmond Arsenal, over which he exercised supervision
until the war closed.

    After the war the University of Georgia, situated at Athens, elected him
Professor of Natural Philosophy; and also, subsequently, President of the State
College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Professor Broim's connection with this
seat of learning continued from 1866 until 1875, when he was elected to fill the
chair of Mathematics in Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn., where he
remained seven years. In 1882, Dr. Broun was called to the presidency of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Auburn, which he held one year, and was
then elected Professor of Mathematics in the University of Texas, at Austin,
where he was elected Chairman of the Faculty. He resigned in 1884, to accept,
for the second time, the presidency of the Agricultural and Mechanical College,
in Alabama. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by St. John's College,
Maryland, in 1874.

    Dr. Broun, as a gentleman, citizen, soldier, scholar, and as a man in the
broadest sense of the term, ranks among the foremost of his country and time. At
any epoch in our history, he would have been an ornament to his kind. Especially
to the youth and people of the South is he endeared by numberless ties which it
were needless and impossible to enumerate. His example can well be adopted, by
the young men of the country he has loved so well, as a model. To him do many of
the best young men of the South owe the value of timely advice and assistance.
With his admirable qualifications to fill the various positions to which he has
been called, it is in no sense surprising that he is honored among her best and
brightest men.

    Dr. Broun was married, in 1859, to Miss Sallie, daughter of George and Mary
(Coleman) Flemming, of Hanover County, Va. They have had seven children born to
them, viz.: LeRoy, Mary, Maud, Bessie, Sallie, George and Katie.

    Our subject has been a member of the Episcopal Church for more than thirty
years.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.


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