Early Life
Matheson was an 1885 graduate of the South Carolina Military Academy, now known as The Citadel. He then served as commandant of cadets at Georgia Military College in Milledgeville, Georgia from 1885 to 1888, at the University of Tennessee from 1888 to 1890, and at the Missouri Military Academy from 1890 to 1896; he also taught English at the latter two institutions. In 1896, Matheson resigned to enter Stanford University, and earned a Master's degree in English in 1897.
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