City: Knoxville
CLAXTON, Philander Priestley, born in Bedford Co., Tenn. Sept. 28, 1862; son of Joshua Calvin and Ann Elizabeth (Jones) CLAXTON; graduate of University of Tennessee, A.B. 1882, A.M. 1887, Litt. D. Bates College 1906; student in Johns Hopkins University 1884-85; student of education and schools of Germany 1885-1886; visited schools in principal countries of Western Europe 1887; married twice, first, Varina Staunton MOORE Dec. 1885; second, Anne Elizabeth PORTER Sept. 1894; taught in graded schools of Goldsboro, N.C., 1882-83; Supt. of schools of Kingston, N.C. 1883-84; superintendent of schools of Wilson, N.C., 1886-87; superintendent of schools of Asheville, N.C., 1887-93; professor of pedagogy and German, North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College, Greensboro, N.C., 1893-96; professor of pedagogy and director of the practice and observation school of the same 1896-1902; professor of education, University of Tennessee since 1902; professor of secondary education and supervisor of high schools in the state since 1906; editor of North Carolina Journal of Education 1897-1901; editor of Atlantic Educational Journal 1901-1903; chief of the Bureau of Investigation and Information of the Southern Education board 1902-03; secretary Southern Educational Association 1899-1903; president of the same 1908; member of Council of National Educational Association and president Council of Southern Educational Association; chairman executive committee of National Story Tellers League; director of American School Peace League; director of Moral Education Board; member National Society for the Scientific Study of Education, American Association of the Advancement of Science, National Geographic Society, Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the extirpation of the hook-worm, Southern Education Board; Chairman campaign committee of Southern Education Board 1908-10; executive secretary of the Conference for Education in the South since 1910, member of Methodist Church; Democrat; Author of “From the Land of Stories” and other books for primary schools, and of many addresses and published articles on education.
