predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place title birth_date term_start article_title term_end name alma_mater
walter barnard hill charles melton snelling 11 january 1929 oglethorpe county , georgia athens , georgia president of the university of georgia 18 october 1852 1906 david crenshaw barrow , jr. .
 1925 david crenshaw barrow , jr. . university of georgia
david crenshaw barrow , jr. .

david crenshaw `` uncle dave '' barrow jr. -lrb- october 18 , 1852 -- january 11 , 1929 -rrb- served as chancellor of the university of georgia -lrb- uga -rrb- in athens from 1906 until his resignation in 1925 -lrb- the head of the university was referred to as chancellor instead of president from 1860 until 1932 -rrb- .
his father was david c. barrow sr. , a planter and a trustee at the university , and his mother was sarah pope barrow .
barrow was born in wolfskin district , oglethorpe county , georgia on october 18 , 1852 .
he married frances ingle childs of athens in 1879 , and they had four children and ten grandchildren .
one of his sons , david francis barrow , became a member of the uga mathematics faculty .
barrow was educated at the university of georgia , receiving both a b.s. and a degree in engineering -lrb- c & m.e. -rrb- , class of 1874 , where he was a member of the chi phi fraternity .
after trying the law and geological surveying , he became an adjunct professor of mathematics at the university in 1878 .
his additional responsibilities included professor of civil engineering -lrb- 1883 -rrb- , head of the combined department of mathematics and civil engineering , head of pure mathematics , and dean of the franklin college in 1899 .
he became the acting chancellor upon then-chancellor hill 's death -lrb- 1905 -rrb- .
he was subsequently officially named chancellor in 1906 .
at the time of his appointment as chancellor , the university of georgia could be accurately described as a collection of colleges , consisting of a liberal arts college , a law school , a summer school , beginning schools of pharmacy and forestry , an embryonic college of agriculture , and some graduate courses in various fields .
when barrow retired in 1925 , the university had become a modern institution .
the more established college of agriculture and a structured graduate school existed .
in addition , the following schools were created during his tenure : school of education -lrb- 1908 -rrb- , commerce -lrb- 1912 -rrb- -lrb- currently known as the school of business administration -rrb- , and journalism -lrb- 1915 -rrb- .
beginning in 1903 , female students were admitted for the first time as summer students and were later enrolled as graduate students -lrb- 1916 -rrb- and finally undergraduates -lrb- 1918 -rrb- .
regular enrollment had almost quadrupled -lrb- from 408 in his inaugural year to 1,592 at the end of his tenure -rrb- because of barrow 's efforts and the admission of female students .
faculty size had tripled , state funding had increased greatly -lrb- from $ 22,500 in 1906 to $ 145,000 in 1925 -rrb- , alumni fundraising was increased , and several new buildings had been constructed on campus including : conner hall -lrb- 1908 -rrb- , peabody hall -lrb- 1913 -rrb- , barrow hall -lrb- 1916 -rrb- , soule hall -lrb- 1920 -rrb- , hardman hall -lrb- 1922 -rrb- , milledge hall -lrb- 1925 -rrb- and memorial hall -lrb- 1925 -rrb- .
barrow was often called upon for public service outside of his university duties .
in 1907 , at the request of booker t. washington , barrow served on the board of the jeanes fund for the improvement of rural education for african americans .
he also served as the neutral arbitrator in the central of georgia railway strike in 1909 .
after black workers were hired to work alongside whites , white employees of the railroad , who were represented by the brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen , called a strike .
the black employees received a lower wage than their white counterparts .
the issue was settled by a federal board of arbitration , which ruled that black workers should be paid equal pay for equal work .
barrow 's vote thus led to the retention of black firemen at equal pay with whites .
chancellor barrow died in 1929 at his home in athens .
funeral services were held in the chapel on uga 's north campus , and he was buried in oconee hill cemetery in athens .
barrow county , georgia an athens elementary school , an athens street , barrow hall at the university and the david c. barrow chair of mathematics all honor the late chancellor .
upon his resignation , barrow was elected as a chancellor emeritus for life by the georgia board of regents .
