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The first Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, '''Landon C. Garland''', was a Virginian and hugely proud of it. He earned a B.A. from Hampton-Sidney in 1829, taught at Washington College, then at Randolph-Macon, where he was later president.
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The first Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, '''Landon C. Garland''', was a Virginian and hugely proud of it. He earned a B.A. from Hampton-Sidney in 1829, taught at Washington College, then at [[Randolph-Macon]], where he was later president.
  
 
Following the Civil War and after several years as president of the University of Alabama, Garland took a position at the University of Mississippi. It was here that Holland McTyeire, a Methodist bishop and Garland's former student, sought out Garland and enlisted him in the campaign to build a Methodist university in Nashville. With Garland onboard, the bishop now needed the money -- for that, he turned to Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.
 
Following the Civil War and after several years as president of the University of Alabama, Garland took a position at the University of Mississippi. It was here that Holland McTyeire, a Methodist bishop and Garland's former student, sought out Garland and enlisted him in the campaign to build a Methodist university in Nashville. With Garland onboard, the bishop now needed the money -- for that, he turned to Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.

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The first Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, Landon C. Garland, was a Virginian and hugely proud of it. He earned a B.A. from Hampton-Sidney in 1829, taught at Washington College, then at Randolph-Macon, where he was later president.

Following the Civil War and after several years as president of the University of Alabama, Garland took a position at the University of Mississippi. It was here that Holland McTyeire, a Methodist bishop and Garland's former student, sought out Garland and enlisted him in the campaign to build a Methodist university in Nashville. With Garland onboard, the bishop now needed the money -- for that, he turned to Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Garland, named early on as the first Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, clearly set the mood of the campus. Steeped in Scottish moral philosophy, Garland believed that the development of character was the central purpose of a true university. He did his part to mold character each Wednesday when he preached sermons to the student body in chapel, and he was staunch in his opposition to dormitories, claiming they were "injurious to both morals and manners."

In 1889 Bishop McTyeire died. Two years later Garland tendered his resignation to the board of trustees, but they kept it in abeyance until 1893 when the board named as Chancellor James H. Kirkland. In the end and to this day, McTyeire's and Garland's bones lie side by side in a grave on the Vanderbilt campus