City: Nashville
ROSE, Wicklifee, General Agent of Peabody Educational Fund; born Saulsbury, Tenn., November 19, 1862; son of Kinchen Langston and Jeannette (Cherry) ROSE; graduated University of Nashville, A.B., 1889; A. M. 1890; student University of Chicago, summer terms, 1897 to 1902; married Ella Morio SUDLER, December 29, 1891; Democrat; member of the Church of the Disciples; Instructor in History and Mathematics of Peabody College, 1891-2; Professor Philosophy Peabody College and University of Nashville, 1892-1902; Professor of History and Philosophy of the Educational University of Tennessee, 1902-04; Dean of Peabody College and University of Nashville, 1904-07; General Agent for the Peabody Educational Fund since 1907; Executive Secretary Conference for Education in the South, 1908 to 1910; member of the Board of Trustees for the John F. Slater Fund since May 6, 1909; member Southern Education Board; member General Education Board; Administration Secretary Rockefeller Sanitary Commission; member Religious Educational Association (Council), N.E.A.; Southern Educational Association, National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education; Association of College Teachers of Education; Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C.; author “The Educational Movement in the South,” 1903; also numerous public addresses; translator “Gabriel Campayre’s Psychology Applied to Education” (with Chancellor W. H. Payne), 1892.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
