Franklin Lafayette Riley Jr.

Franklin Lafayette Riley Jr. (August 24, 1868 – November 10, 1929) was an American historian. The title of his dissertation was Colonial Origins of New England Senates.[1] After taking his doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University he was appointed as the first Professor of History at Ole Miss. In his capacity as a professor at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, he helped to establish the Mississippi Historical Society and later the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.[2][3] In 1902, he wrote a paper detailing the lineage of his grandfather, Edward Riley, and his descendants.