Biography of Solomon L. Crownover; Franklin Co., TN., then Richland Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** S olomon L. Crownover is principal of schools, including the Smith-Hughes School, at Mangham, in Richland Parish. He is a very capable school man, with a university education, and was an industrial chemist before coming to Louisiana. He was born on a farm near Sewanee, in Franklin County, Tennessee, January 28, 1896, son of Hugh L. and Minerva Jane (Cherry) Crownover. His mother still lives at the old home at the age of sixty-three. His grandfather was a soldier under Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. He is a member of a family of eight Sons and three daughters, and seven of them were teachers at some time, the three still following that occupation being Nancy, in Franklin County, Tennessee; Hal, in Bedford, Tennessee, and Solomon L. Solomon L. Crownover received his early school advantages at Dechard, Tennessee, and in 1917 graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree from the University of the South at Sewanee. In 1924 he took his Master of Arts degree at the Peabody Normal College at Nashville. While in the University of the South he specialized in chemistry. At the age of eighteen he taught a term of rural school, but after graduating from the University of the South became chemist for a coal company in Kanacha County, West Virginia, and then went with the United Alloy Steel Company at Canton, Ohio, as industrial chemist. The mills of this company were closed down just before the election of 1920 with the statement that they would reopen in case of Harding's election. However, the reopening was delayed for so long that Mr. Crownover in the meantime made application for school work and for one year was principal of schools at Fayetteville, in Lincoln County, Tennessee. From there he came to Mangham, Louisiana, and has been the active head of the local schools for the past three years. He teaches various branches himself, though his specialty is science, and he has done much to encourage the broad and efficient curriculum in the local schools. Mr. Crownover had three brothers in the World war service and he tried to get accepted for an officers' training camp, but on account of defective eyesight was told to go back to the farm and serve on the bread line. At Sewanee he was secretary of his literary society and he was president of his literary society in high school. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 236-237, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.