William Wallace Duncan, preparatory department student until 1854

Duncan, son of Professor David Duncan who served at R-MC 1835-1854, was born at Randolph-Macon College and was educated in the preparatory department there prior to his father's appointment as professor at Wofford College. Duncan entered Wofford as a freshman in 1854 and graduated in 1958. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1859 and was assigned to Alexandria at the beginning of the war.  In 1863-1864, he served as chaplain, first to the 20th SC Infantry from February 1863 until his transfer in the fall of 1864 to the 13th SC Infantry, his brother David Robinson Duncan's regiment. He was hospitalized in Richmond in July 1864 with diarrhea and in September 1864 with "general debilitas following acute tonsilitis [sic]."

After the war, he continued as a minister in Virginia. He transferred to the South Carolina Conference in 1875, where from 1875-1885, he was a professor at Wofford College. In 1886, he was elected Bishop and served until his death March 2, 1908. He is buried in Spartanburg, SC in Oakwood Cemetery.