John R. Spivey

Timeline Aug. 29, 1894 Birth 1937- Instructor and College Farm Manager, SHSTC Feb. 2, 1954 Death Links Find-a-Grave

John R. Spivey was educated at Texas A&M and taught vocational agriculture in the Sherman Public School System. He moved to Huntsville in 1937 to assume the duties of dairy farm manager at Sam Houston State Teachers College. Later he became an associate professor and taught in the Agriculture Department.

Spivey House was named in his honor.

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