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| Born | September 17, 1853 |
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Edward Parmelee Morris (17 September 1853 - 16 November 1938) was an American classicist.
Edward Parmelee Morris | |
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| Born | September 17, 1853 |
| Died | November 16, 1938 (aged 85) |
| Alma mater | Yale College |
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Edward Parmelee Morris (17 September 1853 - 16 November 1938) was an American classicist.
He was born on September 17, 1853, in Auburn, New York. [1] He graduated from Yale College in 1874, then moved to Cincinnati where his father was living. [2] On January 2, 1879, he married Charlotte Webster Humphrey; her father was the Reverend Z. M. Humphrey and a professor at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati. [2] Humphrey and Morris had four children, Frances Humphrey (born 1880), Edward (born 1885), Margaret (born 1886), and Humphrey (born 1987). [2] Edward died in infancy. Frances and Margaret both attended Bryn Mawr College. [2] Morris died on November 16, 1938, in New York City. [1]
From 1876 to 1877, he taught Latin and history at Purdue College and from 1877 to 1879 he taught Latin and mathematics at Lake Forest College. [3] From 1879 to 1884, Morris taught Greek at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri. [4] [2] In 1884, he became the Massachusetts Professor of Latin Language and Literature [5] [4] at Williams College and was first allowed a year's leave of absence, [2] which he spent the universities of Leipzig and Jena. [1] He returned to Yale as a professor of the Latin language and literature in 1891. [1] He became a significant influence on the work of Arthur Leslie Wheeler, who became Sather Professor at Princeton. [6]
Morris received an L.H.D. from Williams in 1904 and a Litt.D. from Harvard University in 1909, [4] on the inauguration of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. [2]
Some of his notable books are: [7]
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