City: Chattanooga
GILBREATH, Sidney Gordon, president East Tenn. State Normal School Johnson City; born in Monroe Co., Tenn., April 13, 1869, son James A. and Elizabeth (Brunner) GILBREATH; paternal grandfather John Fisher GILBREATH, paternal grandmother Isabella (Edington) GILBREATH, maternal grandfather Joseph BRUNNER, maternal grandmother Elizabeth (Stonecipher) BRUNNER; English, Irish, Holland Dutch descent; educated public schools of Monroe Co., Hiwasse [sic] College, Tenn.; graduate Hiwasse [sic] College B. S. 1891; married Norma Lavinia HENLEY 1893; member Masons, K. of P. and Elks; member State Board of Education 1897-99; President State Teachers’ Association 1897-98; President Public School Officers’ Association, 1910-11; 1891-95 Superintendent of Monroe Co., Tenn., Schools; State Superintendent of Schools; 1895-97; President of Hiwasee College 1897-99; Professor of Physiology and School Hygiene at Peabody College for Teachers (Nashville, Tenn.), 1899-03; Superintendent of Chattanooga Public Schools 1903-10; member Southern Methodist Church.
