Means, Alexander
educator, college president, poet, was born Feb. 6, 1801, in Statesville, N. C. He taught school for for a while; and practiced medicine for six years in Covington, Ga. In 1834 he was elected rector of the Georgia conference manual labor school; and in 1853 was elected president of the Masonic Female college. The following year he was elected to the presidency of Emory college. He was the author of a volume entitled A Cluster of Poems for the Home and Heart; and also published numerous sermons, addresses and scientific papers.
He died June 5, 1883, in Covington, Ga.