Biography:

Educator, educational administrator. Born– June 5, 1891, in Geneva Co., Ala. Parents– Isaac Bryan and Emma (Brunson) Smith. Education– science diploma from Troy State Normal School; Peabody College, B.S., M.A.; doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University; studied at Duke University. Began teaching in 1910 in Crenshaw Co., Ala.; 1917-1923 employed in Ramer, Madison, and New Market, Ala. (except for 6 months in U.S. Army); superintendent of Tallassee schools 1923-1935; director of Division of Instruction at Alabama State Department of Education; after 1937 president of Troy State Teachers College.

Source:

Owen’s The Story of Alabama; Who’s Who in America, 1954.

Publication(s):

Autobiography, Early Years, 1891-1938. Troy, Ala.; Author, 1973.

Troy State University, 1937-1970. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1970.