Washington Manly Wingate (1828-1879)[1] served as the fourth president of Wake Forest College, from 1853 to 1862, and then after the Civil War from 1866 until his death in 1879.
Together, the pair had seven children: Alice, Lizzie, Walter Blackwell, William Jonathan, Belle, Sally, and Ruth.
Wingate was hired as a professor of moral and intellectual philosophy and rhetoric and president pro tempore in June 1853.
[2] When Wake Forest closed during the Civil War, from May 1862 to January 1866, Wingate preached for soldiers, edited for the Baptist State Convention newspaper, Biblical Recorder, and published a tract called I Have Brought My Little Brother Back.
[8] By renaming this building, the university acknowledged its participation in slavery and recognized this aspect of its history and remembers those who labored at the institution against their will.