Mercer University and its Acting President J. F. Sellers

James Freeman Sellers, Acting President 1913-1914

• Educator, chemist, author (1862-1936); A.B., M.A., LL.D., D.Sc. degrees; married to Medora Fort (1888)
• Served as acting president while teaching chemistry from 1893-1918
• Purchased the fifty-acre Dempsey tract, providing room for future expansion and settling the agitation for moving the university from Macon
• Raised four thousand dollars for improvement of the Mercer campus, including a system of walks and shrubbery planted by the president and his wife

Orange and Black, advertisement for Mercer University, March 28, 1914:

"Well equipped chemical, physical, biological and pharmaceutical laboratories; gymnasium with hot and cold baths; splendid Y.M.C.A. in beautiful building; Students' Hall, each room with modern ventilation; twenty professors; eleven buildings; ten thousand volumes and one hundred current periodicals in library and reading room. For information address J. F. SELLERS, Macon, Georgia"