Frederick W. Hinitt | |
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 Hinitt at Central University c. 1905 | |
| 4th President of Washington & Jefferson College | |
| In office January 5, 1915 – June 1, 1918 | |
| Preceded by | James D. Moffat |
| Succeeded by | Samuel Charles Black |
| 10th President of the Central University of Kentucky | |
| In office July 1, 1904 – January 1, 1915 | |
| Preceded by | William C. Roberts |
| Succeeded by | William Arthur Ganfield |
| 6th President of Parsons College | |
| In office July 27, 1900 – April 1904 | |
| Preceded by | Daniel E. Jenkins |
| Succeeded by | Willis E. Parsons |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 21, 1866 Kidderminster, England |
| Died | October 25, 1928 (aged 61) Indiana, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Spouse |
Effie Humphreys
(m. 1892; died 1918) |
| Education | Westminster College McCormick Theological Seminary University of Wooster |
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Frederick William Hinitt (November 21, 1866 – October 25, 1928) was an American Presbyterian pastor and academic administrator who was president of Parsons College, Central University of Kentucky (now Centre College), and Washington & Jefferson College for various periods between 1900 and 1918. He was educated at Westminster College, McCormick Theological Seminary, and the University of Wooster (now the College of Wooster), and he began his career in the ministry at Presbyterian churches in Warrensburg, Missouri, and Ottumwa, Iowa. Already a member of the board of trustees of Parsons College, in Fairfield, Iowa, he was elected president of that school in July 1900. In spite of a fire that destroyed one of the school's few buildings, a new women's dormitory was constructed and funds were raised to build a Carnegie library.
He left Parsons in 1904 to take the presidency of Central University, where he worked to improve admissions and academic standards and began the process of overhauling the curriculum. As part of the process of improving campus, a new science building was constructed and Central got a Carnegie library of their own, completed in 1913. Amidst declining enrollment, Hinitt resigned in 1915 to take the presidency of Washington & Jefferson. His three-year presidency there was dominated by the effects of World War I, and he left in 1918 to become pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Indiana, Pennsylvania. After completing a one-year leave of absence working in war camps in England, he returned to Indiana and continued preaching until his death in 1928.