Perryville in Boyle County, Kentucky — The American South (East South Central)

Robert McNutt McElroy

Photographed by Mark Parker, August 18, 2025

1. Robert McNutt McElroy Marker

Inscription. Wrote biographies of both Presidents Grover Cleveland and Jefferson Davis; a historian who studied at the University of Leipziq, University of Berlin, Oxford, and St. Johns University (Shanghai, China). He also taught at Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, and became the second Harold Vyvand Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He became the first American professor to teach in China on an official exchange program.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Arts, Letters, Music • Education.

Location. 37° 39.007′ N, 84° 57.094′ W. Marker is in Perryville, Kentucky, in Boyle County. It is at the intersection of South Buell Street (U.S. 68) and East 2nd Street (U.S. 68/150), on the right when traveling north on South Buell Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 204 S Buell St, Perryville KY 40468, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Kentucky’s Bluegrass Region.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture

and also the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Kendall Hayes (here, next to this marker); Nina Bruce Warren Clooney (here, next to this marker); Lt. Col. Charles C. Bond (here, next to this marker); Milton J. Durham (here, next to this marker); Carry Nation (a few steps from this marker); Gravicalymene Hagani

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(a few steps from this marker); Alyssa Wray (a few steps from this marker); John Michael and Eddie Montgomery (a few steps from this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Perryville.

Also see . . . Robert M. McElroy papers. New York Public Library

(McNutt) studied at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin, Oxford University and St. John's University, Shanghai, China. He served as an instructor of history, asst, professor of history and professor of history at Princeton from 1898 to 1916. He was the first American exchange professor to China, lecturing on government and education from 1916 to 1917. During the 1920s and 1930s McElroy taught at various universities in Great Britain, including Oxford (1925-1938 & ff.), Cambridge, Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds. In 1932 he returned to the United States to give the Centennial Address at New York University. Publications in the field of history include Kentucky in the Nation's History (1909), The Representative Idea in History (1917), Grover Cleveland — the Man and the Statesman (1923), and Jefferson Davis — The Unreal and the Real (1937) in addition to other monographs and edited works. An adamant opponent of "provincial
Photographed by Mark Parker, August 18, 2025

2. Robert McNutt McElroy Marker, part of a series of markers, located second from the right
thinking", McElroy was well thought of by historians in the United States and Great Britain: he succeeded Woodrow Wilson as the chair of the Princeton department of history and politics in 1912 and succeeded Samuel Morison as the Harold V. Harmsworth professor of American History at Oxford.

(Submitted on September 6, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina.)

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3. Robert McNutt McElroy

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Credits. This page was last revised on September 7, 2025. It was originally submitted on September 6, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 77 times since then and 17 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on September 6, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.