{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = William A. Shanklin | image = William Arnold Shanklin.jpg | caption = | order = | title = President of [[Wesleyan University]] | term_start = June 1909 | term_end = 1923 | predecessor = Bradford Paul Raymond | successor = [[Stephen Henry Olin]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1862|4|18}} | birth_place = [[Carrollton, Missouri]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1924|10|6|1862|4|18}} | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | spouse = {{marriage|Emma Elizabeth Brant|October 13, 1891}} | children = 3 | signature = Signature of William Arnold Shanklin.png }} '''William Arnold Shanklin''' (April 18, 1862 – October 6, 1924) was a [[Methodist Episcopal Church|Methodist]] minister and an American [[university president]].
==Early life== William Arnold Shanklin, a member of the prominent [[Shanklin Family]], was born at [[Carrollton, Missouri|Carrollton]], Missouri on April 18, 1862.<ref name="Wesleyan1905">{{cite book |last1=Conn.) |first1=Wesleyan University (Middletown |title=The Wesleyan University Bulletin |date=1905 |publisher=The University. |page=8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kO60twWVAtkC&pg=RA7-PA8 |access-date=9 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref> He was the son of Wesley Dunscombe Shanklin and Lockie Ann (née Arnold) Shanklin.<ref name="White1910"/> His younger brother, Arnold Shanklin, served as consul general of the United States at Panama beginning in 1905.<ref name="Wesleyan1905"/>
Shanklin was educated at public schools in Missouri before attending [[Hamilton College (New York)|Hamilton College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|A.B.]], 1883) and at [[Garrett Biblical Institute]] ([[Bachelor of Sacred Theology|S.T.B.]], 1891).<ref name="Price1916">{{cite book |last1=Price |first1=Carl Fowler |title=Who's Who in American Methodism |date=1916 |publisher=E. B. Treat |page=[https://archive.org/details/04944809.emory.edu/page/n201 197] |url=https://archive.org/details/04944809.emory.edu |access-date=9 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
==Career== Before entering the ministry, Shanklin spent four years "engaged in mercantile pursuits" in [[Chetopa, Kansas]]. After graduating from Garrett Biblical Institute in 1891, Shanklin was [[ordained]] to the [[Methodist Episcopal]] ministry and held pastorates in [[Kansas]], in [[Spokane, Washington|Spokane]] and [[Seattle]], in [[Washington (U.S. state)|Washington]], in [[Dubuque, Iowa]], and in [[Reading, Pennsylvania]].<ref name="White1910"/>
In 1905, he was elected president of [[Upper Iowa University]], which was founded in 1857, and served as president from 1905 until 1909. In 1908, he was elected to succeed [[Bradford P. Raymond]] as the ninth president of [[Wesleyan University]] in [[Middletown, Connecticut]] beginning in June 1909. He received many honorary degrees, including a [[D.D.]] from the [[University of Washington]] in 1895, and an [[LL.D.]] from [[Baker University]] in 1906.<ref name="White1910">{{cite book |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time |date=1910 |publisher=J. T. White Company |page=292 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nm9GAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA292 |access-date=9 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== On October 13, 1891, Shanklin was married to Emma Elizabeth Brant (1869–1947), the daughter of Jefferson Emery Brant and Mary Ann (née McAllister) Brant, at [[Fort Scott, Kansas]]. Together, they were the parents of three children:<ref name="White1910"/>
* Mary Arnold Shanklin * William Arnold Shanklin Jr. * Anna Shanklin
Shanklin died in New York City on October 6, 1924.<ref name="WASObit1924">{{cite news |title=Died. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/10/07/104264822.pdf |access-date=9 January 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 7, 1924 |language=en}}</ref> He was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in [[Bloomington, Indiana]].<ref name="1924Funeral">{{cite news |title=Funeral of Dr. William A. Shanklin |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/10/09/101616960.pdf |access-date=9 January 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 9, 1924 |language=en}}</ref>
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