Research topic: Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard

Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard 1809-89, American educator and mathematician, b. Sheffield, Mass., grad. Yale, 1828. After tutoring at Yale and teaching in institutions for the deaf and mute, he joined the faculty of the Univ. of Alabama, serving as professor of mathematics and natural philosophy (1837-48) and as professor of chemistry and natural philosophy (1848-54). From 1854 to 1856 he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the Univ. of Mississippi. He served there as president (1856-58) and chancellor (1858-61), but resigned at the outbreak of the Civil War to return to... Read more