Clarke County GaArchives Biographies.....Barrow, David Crenshaw 1852 - living in 1923
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Author: H. J. Rowe

DAVID CRENSHAW BARROW

   As Chancellor of the University of Georgia, David Crenshaw Barrow occupies a
station among the foremost educators of the country, and in the hearts of the
people of his native stats his position is second to none.

   He was born October 18, 1852, in Oglethorpe county, the son of David Crenshaw
and Sarah Eliza (Pope) Barrow. He was too young to fight beneath the Stars and
Bars of the Confederacy, but his young manhood fell on reconstruction days in
Georgia, in times that tested the fibre of character as nothing else could have
done. He gained his education in the institution over which he now presides,
with so much efficiency, graduating therefrom in the class of 1874.

   The greater part of his life has been spent as a teacher. For a number of
years he filled the chair of Engineering in the University of Georgia. He was
then elected as professor of Mathematics and later on became in addition to that
position, Dean of Franklin College. In this latter position he demonstrated
unequalled ability in the handling of boys, endearing himself to those under him
and at the same time securing a maximum of efficient work on their part.

   On the death of Chancellor Hill in 1905, Dean Barrow became Acting Chancellor
of the University and in June, 1906, was elected to that position by the
Trustees at their annual session. Under his remarkable leadership the University
has made great progress during the past seventeen years. He has left an impress
upon the educational affairs of the state that will never be effaced. He is a
member of the Board of Education of the Athens City Schools, and by virtue of
his office as Chancellor is vitally connected with the work of all the branch
colleges in the state. He is a member of the State Board of Education, a member
of the Trustees of the Anna Jeanes Foundation, and was for a number of years
Chairman of the Board of Examiners for Georgia under the Cecil Rhodes
Scholarship bequest.

   Chancellor Barrow .is among the leading members of the Methodist Church,
South, and for more than forty years has been a teacher in the First Methodist
Sunday School, Athens, Ga. He is a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity.

   He bears the distinction of now being one of the few living men for whom a
county in the state is named—Barrow county—created by special act of the General
Assembly of Georgia, 1914, being formed of portions of Jackson, Gwinnett and
Walton, with Winder, Ga., as the county seat.

   By special resolution of the Board of Education of the City of Athens, one of
the new schools built with proceeds of the bond issue voted in 1922, for that
purpose, has been designated as the David Barrow Building, in recognition of his
service both to the state and city in the cause of education.

   He was married February 5, 1879, to Miss Frances Ingle Childs, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Asaph K. Childs, of Athens. Children: Mrs. Samuel J. Crow, Benjamin
H. Barrow, Mrs. Eleanor Barrow Williams, and David F. Barrow.


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HISTORY OF ATHENS and CLARKE COUNTY
1923

H. J. ROWE, Publisher

THE McGREGOR CO., PRINTERS, ATHENS, GA.




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