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RARE “19th Century Harvard President" Cornelius Conway Felton Cut Signature:
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"Harvard President" Cornelius Conway Felton Clipped Signature
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Cornelius Conway Felton(November 6, 1807 – February 26, 1862) was an American educator. He was regent of theSmithsonian Institution, as well as professor of Greek literature andpresidentofHarvard University.Felton was born inWest Newbury, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1827, having taught school in the winter vacations of his sophomore and junior years. During his undergraduate years, he was also a member of theHasty Pudding. After teaching in the Livingstone High School ofGeneseo, New York, for two years, he became tutor at Harvard in 1829, university professor ofGreekin 1832, and Eliot professor of Greek literature in 1834. In 1860 he succeeded James Walker as president of Harvard, which position he held until his death, atChester, Pennsylvania. He was elected a member of theAmerican Antiquarian Societyin 1854.Felton edited many classical texts. His annotations onWolf's text of theIliad(1833) are especially valuable.Greece, Ancient and Modern(2 vols., 1867), forty-nine lectures before theLowell Institute, is scholarly, able and suggestive of the author's personality. Among his miscellaneous publications are the American edition ofSir William Smith'sHistory of Greece(1855); translations ofMenzel'sGerman Literature(1840), ofMunk'sMetres of the Greeks and Romans(1844), and ofGuyot'sEarth and Man(1849); andFamiliar Letters from Europe(1865). Felton was the brother ofSamuel Morse Felton, Sr., the half-brother ofJohn B. Feltonand the uncle ofSamuel Morse Felton, Jr.. He died of "disease of the heart" while en route to a Smithsonian meeting in Washington. A historical marker in the town of West Newbury marks Felton's birthplace.
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