Educator, newspaper editor, college president, religious leader
Reuben Shannon Lovinggood (May 2, 1864 – December 17, 1916), was an American newspaper editor, classical scholar, educator, and college president.[3][4] He served as the third president of Samuel Huston College (now known as Huston-Tillotson University) from 1900 to 1916.[1][2] He was the editor and partial owner of the Atlanta Times newspaper from 1890 to 1892.[1] Lovinggood was a professor of Latin and Greek courses from 1895 until 1900 at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas.[1][5] He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.[2]
His son was Penman Lovingood, a composer and memoir writer; who authored the book about his father, Negro Seer: The Life and Work of Dr. R.S. Lovingood [sic] Educator, Churchman, Race Leader (1963).[1]
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