Beard, Richard
educator, college president, author, was born Nov. 27, 1799, in Sumner county, Tenn. He was graduated at Cumberland university, Tennessee, in 1832; and became president of the university in 1843. On the founding of the Theological school of the university in 1853, he resigned the presidency of the university and took the chair of systematic theology, being in reality for the next twenty-five years both principal and professor. He was a leader in the Cumberland Presbyterian organization, and published Systematic Theology; also Biographical Sketches; and Why I Am a Cumberland Presbyterian. He died Dec. 2, 1880, in Lebanon, Tenn.