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Byrd Prillerman

1859–1929

United States

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Byrd Prillerman (October 19, 1859 – April 25, 1929) was an American educator and school administrator. Prillerman was the fourth principal of the West Virginia Collegiate Institute (present-day West Virginia State University) from 1909 until 1919 and is considered by West Virginia State as the institution's fourth president. Byrd Prillerman School in Raleigh County, West Virginia, was named for him.

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