Felton

Felton, CORNELIUS CONWAY, president of Harvard College, was born in West Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1807, and studied at Harvard, where, after filling several minor posts, he became in 1834 Eliot professor of Greek, and in 1860 president. He died 26th February 1862. He published translations of modern European works, and editions of Greek classics; his chief work, however, was his posthumous Greece, Ancient and Modern (2 vols. Boston, 1867), mostly made up of lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute.