Matthew W. Dogan

A Celebrated Texas Educator.

Matthew Winifred was born in 1863 during the Civil War in Mississippi. He was the son of William and Jennie Dogan. He attended Rust College in Mississippi but had to leave and teach school in order to earn money for college.

Education was important to Matthew. In 1886, he returned to college and graduated at the top of his class. His appointment to the faculty at Rust was followed with a mathematics instructorship at Central Tennessee College, later called Walden College, in Nashville. He received his PhD from New Orleans University in 1910.

Matthew moved from Walden and presided as president of Wiley College in Marshall, Texas. Under his leadership, Wiley become one of the leading African American colleges.

Displaying his varied interests, Matthew was also president of the Standard Mutual Fire Insurance Comopany, the Nathional Association of Teachers in Colored Schools and the Teachers State Association of Texas at various times in his life.

In 1888 he married Fannie Forest Faulkner. Over the years, they had seven children. Matthew was a Methodist Episcopal and he was very active in his church as well as many civic and fraternal organizations.

Many recognized Matthew's great contributions and he was awarded honorary degrees from Rust College, Walden College, and Howard University.

Matthew reired in 1942. He died at home in Marshall, Texas on June 17, 1947.

Information gathered from http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/DD/fdo54.html