ROUDEBUSH, George Shotwell, educator and clergyman, was born in Goshen, Ohio, April 26, 1828; son of Daniel and Ruth (Shotwell) Roudebush. He graduated at Jefferson college, Pa., in 1854; taught at Fairview academy, La., 1854-56; attended the Western Theological seminary, 1856-57; was married, Dec. 24, 1856, to Margaret Hughes, daughter of William and Eleanor (Hughes) Moore of Canonsburg, Pa.; taught in the high school at Natchez, Miss., 1857-59; was principal of Natchez institute, 1859-62; was licensed by the presbytery of Mississippi in August, 1860, and was ordained in 1862. He was pastor at Woodville, Miss., 1861-64, and stated supply in Adams county, 1864-66; again superintendent of Natchez institute, 1867-70; president of Oakland college, Miss., 1870-73, and of the Oakland institute, 1873-74. He was professor at the Agricultural and Mechanical college, Miss., 1880-83; Jackson high school, 1883-87, and in 1887 became the principal and proprietor of the Collegiate academy at Madison, Miss. He received the degree of D.D. from Mississippi university in 1880. In 1882 he published "A Plea for the Higher Education of the Women of Mississippi", which led to the establishment by the state of a college for girls in 1885, which in 1903 enrolled 600 pupils.

[The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IX , submitted by Sara Hemp]

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