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Prof. W. S. Bryan, principal of Dumplin High School, was born at Mossy Creek July 1, 1857, the son of Prof. R. R. and Rebecca A. (Langbord) Bryan. The father, born in Sevier County April 11, 1822, and died January 26, 1879, was the son of Thomas Bryan, and was educated at Strawberry Plains Academy, and was the first professor in charge of what is now Carson College, and conducted it before and two years after the war, and then retired on account of his health. He had the reputation of being one of the finest English scholars in East Tennessee He was a Baptist. Peter, the grandfather, was a member of the Territorial Legislature which framed the constitution of Tennessee. The mother, born in Blount County March 18 1832, is the daughter of Rev. James Langbord (deceased), a Baptist divine. She is a Baptist, and is living near Mossy Creek. Her marriage to our subject’s father occurred September 5, 1850. When our subject was five years old they left the vicinity of Mossy Creek for Sevier County, but at the close of the war returned. He graduated from Carson College in 1881, and in the fall took his present position, since held, with the exception of two years’ teaching elsewhere. This school has seven grades and ten teachers and has a scientific and classical course of as high a grade as any in the county except the colleges at Mossy Creek, so made by our subject’s management. January 15, 1882 he married Maggie, a daughter of Madison Cate, and born March 31, 1861 He and his wife are Baptists. Their children are Gertrude, born June 1, 1885, and Nellie, born May 20.