Instructor biography w a broadus

John Broadus, Southern’s second president, was born on January 24, 1827 in Culpeper County, Virginia.

After undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Virginia, he joined the university’s faculty as an assistant professor of classics. There, he displayed unusual facility in his post.

Instructor biography w a broadus

He served simultaneously as pastor of the Charlottesville Baptist Church. In this period, Broadus won the heart of Maria Harrison, daughter of renowned classics professor Gessner Harrison. Married on November 18, 1850, the Broaduses had three daughters (Eliza, Annie, and Maria) together before Maria passed away on October 21, 1857 at twenty-six years of age.

On January 4, 1859, Broadus married Charlotte Eleanor Sinclair, who gave birth to several additional children.

The 1858 Education Convention elected Broadus to the seminary’s first faculty. Broadus declined the position because he had close ties to school and family in Charlo