Milton Coffelt Hollingsworth

Milton Coffelt Hollingsworth

Hollingsworth, Milton Coffelt (1891-1987)

Teachers - Virginia - Woodstock

School Principals - Virginia

Portrait of Professor Milton Hollingsworth wearing a suit and tie. He was the son of Charles Edwin and Fannie (Coffelt) Hollingsworth and had a long career in high school level education; first as a teacher, later as a Principal.

Milton married Sylvia Pierce, a young woman born in England. Together, they had two daughters, Patricia and Sylvia.

He started out as a teacher at the Edinburg High School and by 1930, the census listed him living in Woodstock where he worked as the principal of the high school. Ten years later, he was a high school principal in Bedford County.

When he died, Milton Hollingsworth was a retired Principal of Norfolk City Schools still living in Norfolk. He was buried, however, in Cedarwood Cemetery, Edinburg.

Morrison Studio

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Shenandoah County Library

Labelled "July 1942" on box of plates.

Identified by Jake Haun, a cousin of the subject, who remembered him as having been a Superintendent of Schools in Shenandoah County.

Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.

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Milton C. Hollingsworth appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 003685, 003796, 004680 008507, 008216, 013126, and 014351.

008216

Glass Negative