DuPre, Warren
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DuPre, Warren
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Warren DuPre was a professor of natural sciences and an original faculty member of Wofford College.
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Warren DuPre was born in Mount Pleasant, SC on January 24, 1816, and taught at Randolph-Macon and in Charleston before heading the Newberry Female Academy. In 1850, he helped found the state teachers’ association. In 1854, he was appointed to the Wofford faculty as professor of natural sciences and allowed to travel in the North to purchase scientific equipment. His family came from a plantation background, and he owned enslaved persons while a member of the faculty. He lived in the house immediately to the west of Main Building until 1876, when he left Spartanburg to become president of Mary Washington College in Virginia. His son, Daniel A. DuPre, succeeded him as the college’s professor of natural sciences, and took up residence in the campus home where he had grown up. Warren DuPre died in 1879.
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14 January 1816
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1879
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