William Schieffelin was born in Norfolk, Virginia back in 1908. He attended the public schools in Washington, D.C. In 1928, he received his BS degree from Howard University. He continued his education receiving a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1933. After graduation, he taught at HBCU West Virginia State College for three years.
In 1937, he received a Rosenwald Fellowship at the University of Michigan, staying there for several years. During WWII, he served in the US Army, teaching Anti-Aircraft Artillery Schools in Virginia and Georgia. In 1947, he joined the faculty at Howard where he taught until his retirement in 1965. He died just two years later in 1967, he was 59.
What you may not know about William Schieffelin Claytor is that he was the first African-American to have a paper published in the Annals of Mathematics in 1937. Also, he was the third African-American to get a PhD in mathematics.
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