SAFFOLD, William Berney

Date of Birth: July 11, 1867
Born City: Selma
Born State/Country: AL
Date of Death: December 21, 1941
Death City: Tuscaloosa
Death State/Country: AL
Married: Margaret Parsons, 6 Nov. 1902.
Education:
A.B. U. Alabama, 1887; LL.B., 1888; A.M., 1889; LL.D., 1927; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1898
Dissertation:
"The Construction with iubeo, a Portion of a Dissertation Treating of the Construction with Verbs of Commanding" (Johns Hopkins, 1898); printed (Baltimore, 1902).
Professional Experience:
Instr. math. U. Alabama, 1887-8; prof. Lat. & Gk. Marion (AL) Mil. Inst., 1888-91; Searey (AR) College, 1891-2; Little Rock (AR) Academy, 1892-4; U. Alabama, 1897-1937; actng. pres., 1911.
Notes:
W.B. Saffold came from an old and prominent Alabama family; his father and grandfather were both judges of the Alabama Supreme Court. Though he devoted 40 years to his alma mater, he could not prevent a decline in the study of Latin and Greek. When enrollments in classics courses were finally marginal, Saffold became professor of American history.
Sources:
NatCAB 37:197.
Author: Ward W. Briggs, Jr.

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