Dixon, Brandt V. B.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Brandt V. B. Dixon, president of the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial college of New Orleans, was born in Patterson, New Jersey, February 27, 1850. His father's family removed to St. Louis in 1858. He was educated in the St. Louis public and private schools, Amherst college, and Cornell university, from which last-named institution he graduated in 1870. From that time until the present he has been engaged in educational work and has held various positions in the St. Louis public schools, being engaged almost continuously in that work from 1870 to 1887, the last three years holding the position of principal in the Central high school. In 1887 he was called to New Orleans by the board of administrators of the Tulane Educational fund to organize the Newcomb college as its first president. He is an advocate of advanced methods of education, and the remarkable progress of the Newcomb college under his administration is evidence of their practical utility. Professor Dixon also occupies the chair of metaphysics in Tulane university. He was married on the 24th of June, 1873, to Miss Eliza Carson, of Caledonia, Mo., and has two sons, both students in Tulane university.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 380. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.