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<\/a>The house is located at 302 N. Main Street in Travelers Rest, and the marker is located across the street on the Swamp Rabbit Trail. The ceremony for the historical marker took place July 18 in a ceremony at the Travelers Rest Sargent Branch Library.<\/p>\nPlyler, who served as Furman\u2019s president from 1939 to 1964, was born in Travelers Rest on Jan. 12, 1894.\u00a0 His family moved to Greenville in 1898.<\/p>\n
Plyler graduated from Furman in 1913 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.\u00a0 He received a LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1921 and a LL.D. from Erskine College in 1939.\u00a0 Before going to law school, he served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War I.\u00a0 He was also awarded honorary Doctorate of Letters degrees from Wofford College and Furman.<\/p>\n
Plyler taught in Furman\u2019s new Law School beginning in 1922, eventually becoming Dean of the Law School until it closed in 1932.\u00a0 He was also an Instructor in Economics at Furman, and served on the Board of Trustees.\u00a0 He became Furman\u2019s president in 1939 and oversaw the university\u2019s move to its current campus.\u00a0 He died in April of 1966 at the age of 72.<\/p>\n
For more information, contact Furman\u2019s News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Travelers Rest birthplace and boyhood home of former Furman president Dr. John L. Plyler has been recognized with a South Carolina Historical Marker.\u00a0The house is located at 302 N. Main Street in Travelers Rest, and the marker is located across the street on the Swamp Rabbit Trail.\u00a0Plyler, a 1913 Furman graduate who served as the university\u2019s president from 1939 to 1964, was born in Travelers Rest on Jan. 12, 1894.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}