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Cornelius Conway Felton (1807–1862)
Felton, Cornelius Conway. An American scholar and writer; born in Newbury, MA, Nov. 6, 1807; died in Chester, PA, Feb. 26, 1862. In 1834 he became professor of Greek literature at Harvard; in 1860 its president. His publications include many translations of which ‘The Clouds’ and ‘The Birds’ of Aristophanes are the most distinguished; also ‘Familiar Letters from Europe’ (1864); ‘Greece, Ancient and Modern’ (1867); ‘Selections from Modern Greek Writers’; etc.