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William F. Perry

 * ... that Alabama's first superintendent of public education, Confederate Brigadier General and college professor William F. Perry, was self-taught and had little or no formal education?
 * Comment: four citations for hook, for example, Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. ISBN 0-8071-0823-5. p. 236 says little or no formal schooling; taught himself, then taught others. All four also note office and other facts in citation.
 * Reviewed: thickspike wheatgrass

Created/expanded by Donner60 (talk). Self nom at 22:38, 17 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article definitely new enough and long enough. Offline hook accepted in good faith. Having done several biographies of folks from this period, I know this isn't as uncommon as it may sound today, so I'm betting it's true. Only comment is that some sentences have a lot of in-line cites tied to them. Why do we really need six citations for "William Flank Perry was born on March 12, 1823 in Jackson County, Georgia."? Acdixon (talk · contribs) 15:58, 26 December 2011 (UTC)