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CLAXTON, Philander Priestley<\/strong>, born in Bedford Co., Tenn. Sept. 28, 1862; son of Joshua Calvin and Ann Elizabeth (Jones) CLAXTON<\/strong>; 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\u00a0<\/strong>Dec. 1885; second, Anne Elizabeth PORTER<\/strong> 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; \u00a0superintendent 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,276,4407,418,4419],"tags":[2186,263,4344,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-4859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bedford","7":"category-knox","8":"category-surname-c","9":"category-university-of-tennessee","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-claxton","12":"tag-jones","13":"tag-moore","14":"tag-porter","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14885,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions\/14885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}