grandson of Thomas and Margaret (Barksdale) Meriwether
and of Hillary Mosely and Frances (Quarles) Collier,
and a descendant
of
William Meriwether (born 1751)and of Joseph Collier (born 1749). He attended
Furman
university, Greenville, S. C., and Vanderbilt university,
Nashville,
Tenn., and was graduated from Johns Hopkins
university, A.B., 1886, Ph.D.,
1893. He was in the employ of the educational department of the
Japanese
government in Sendai, Japan, 1889-92. He was married in 1893, to Elizabeth S.
Quynn, of Frederick, Md. He
was elected a member of the Asiatic society
of
Japan and of the American Historical association, and secretary
and
treasurer
of the Southern History association, Washington, D.C. He is the author of: History of Higher
Education in South Carolina (1889); Date Masamune
and His Embassy to Rome; Asiatic Society of Japan
(1892), and articles in leading periodicals.