FELTON, CORNELIUS CONWAY

FELTON, CORNELIUS CONWAY
   American scholar, born at West Newbury, Massachusetts; graduated at Harvard in 1827, and became professor of Greek there, rising to the Presidency of the same college in 1860; edited Greek classics, and made translations from the German; most important work is "Greece, Ancient and Modern," in 2 vols. (1807-1862).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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