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Wayland Fuller Dunaway Jr. (May 22, 1875-1956) was a professor and author in the United States. He wrote about various aspects of Pennsylvania's history including a history of Pennsylvania State College.

He was born in Kilmarnock, Virginia. His father, Wayland Fuller Dunaway Sr. (1841-1916), served as a captain of Company I in the 49th Virginia regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia and wrote Reminiscences of a Rebel published in 1913.[1][2] He became a clergyman after the war.[3] Roberta née Pinckard Dunaway was his mother.[4]

He graduated from Richmond College. He became an ordained Baptist minister at Crozier Seminary[5] and then returned to Richmond College for his Masters degree.[6]

He worked as a minister and principal. He married Mary May and had three children. He left the ministry and graduated with a second Masters degree from the University of Chicago after which he worked at the history department at Columbia University where he received a doctorate. He was hired as an Assistant Professor of European History at Pennsylvania State College[7] and eventually became a full professor of American History in 1926. In 1941, he was appointed the College Historian for the Pennsylvania State College. He retired in 1944. Dunaway was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Historical Association in 1934.[6]

Writings

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  • History of Pennsylvania (1935)[8]
  • The History of the James River
  • History of the Kanawha Company, doctoral thesis[9] published as a monograph in 1922[10]
  • The Scotch - Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania University of North Carolina Press (1944)
  • "The Scotch-Irish in War"[11]
  • "Pennsylvania as an Early Distributing Center of Population"[12]

References

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  1. ^ Bonan, Gordon Blackwell (October 9, 2009). The Edge of Mosby's Sword: The Life of Confederate Colonel William Henry Chapman. SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-8686-4 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "The Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon". Sigma Alpha Epsilon. April 11, 1915 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Burns, Vincent L. (October 29, 2021). Voices of the Army of the Potomac: Personal Reminiscences of Union Veterans. Casemate. ISBN 978-1-63624-073-2 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "The Minute Man". Sons of the American Revolution. April 11, 1927 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Seminary, Crozer Theological (April 11, 1913). "Bulletin" – via Google Books.
  6. ^ a b https://archives.libraries.psu.edu/repositories/3/resources/4001
  7. ^ "La Vie: Portraying by Word and Picture the Essence of Life at Penn State". April 11, 1921 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Dunaway, Wayland Fuller (April 11, 1935). A history of Pennsylvania: by Wayland Fuller Dunaway. Prentice-Hall, inc. – via Hathi Trust.
  9. ^ Dunaway, Wayland Fuller (April 11, 1922). "History of the James River and Kanawha Company". Columbia University – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Arnett, Alex Mathews (April 11, 1922). "The Populist Movement in Georgia: A View of the "agrarian Crusade" in the Light of Solid-south Politics". Columbia University – via Google Books.
  11. ^ "CONTENTdm". digital.libraries.psu.edu.
  12. ^ McCusker, John J.; Menard, Russell R. (January 1, 2014). The Economy of British America, 1607-1789. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-1-4696-0000-0 – via Google Books.
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