Harry Yandell Benedict
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Harry Yandell Benedict (November 14, 1869 – May 10, 1937) was an American academic administrator, astronomer, and mathematician. He was president of the University of Texas at Austin.
Benedict was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Joseph and Adele (Peters) Benedict on November 14, 1869. In 1877, His brother, Carl, mother, and maternal grandfather, H. J. Peters, moved to Texas, onto land acquired by his great-grandfather, S. W. Peters. The family library contained one thousand books. Other than eight months of formal schooling in the cities of Graham and Weatherford, H. Y. Benedict was homeschooled by his mother. Benedict studied civil engineering at the University of Texas at Austin from 1889 to 1892, and completed a master's degree in 1893. He then worked at the McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia until 1895, when he began working toward a doctorate in mathematical astronomy at Harvard University.
