Edward Parmelee Morris
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{{Infobox person
| name = Edward Parmelee Morris
| image = Edward Parmelee Morris.png
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1853|9|17}}
| birth_place = Auburn, New York, US
| death_date = {{death date and age|1938|11|16|1853|9|17}}
| death_place = New York City, New York, US
| alma_mater = Yale College
| honours = {{Plainlist|
- L.H.D. from Williams College (1904)
- Litt.D. from Harvard University (1909)
}}
}}
Edward Parmelee Morris (September 17, 1853 – November 16, 1938) was an American classicist.
Life
He was born on September 17, 1853, in Auburn, New York.{{cite web|url=http://drs.library.yale.edu/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=mssa:ms.0357&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes|title=Guide to the Edward P. Morris Papers|author=compiled by Staff of Manuscripts and Archives|work=yale.edu|access-date=12 March 2017}} He graduated from Yale College in 1874, then moved to Cincinnati where his father was living.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalrec00goog|page=[https://archive.org/details/biographicalrec00goog/page/n191 159]|quote=Edward Parmelee Morris.|title=Biographical Record of the Class of 1874 in Yale College: Part Fourth, 1874-1909|last=Yale University Class of 1874|date=1912|publisher=Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company|language=en}} 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. Humphrey and Morris had four children, Frances Humphrey (born 1880), Edward (born 1885), Margaret (born 1886), and Humphrey (born 1987). Edward died in infancy. Frances and Margaret both attended Bryn Mawr College. Morris died on November 16, 1938, in New York City.
Career
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.{{cite web |last1=Gordon |first1=Laura |title=Morris, Edward Parmelee |url=https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/8956-morris-edward-parmelee |website=Database of Classical Scholars |publisher=Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences |language=en-gb}} From 1879 to 1884, Morris taught Greek at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RmUTAAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RmUTAAAAYAAJ/page/n760 762]|quote=Edward Parmelee Morris.|title=Who's who in New England|date=1915|publisher=A.N. Marquis|language=en}} In 1884, he became the Massachusetts Professor of Latin Language and Literature{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/generalcatalogu01lowegoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/generalcatalogu01lowegoog/page/n25 17]|quote=Edward Parmelee Morris.|title=General Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Williams College, 1910|date=1910|publisher=The College|language=en}} at Williams College and was first allowed a year's leave of absence, which he spent the universities of Leipzig and Jena. He returned to Yale as a professor of the Latin language and literature in 1891. He became a significant influence on the work of Arthur Leslie Wheeler, who became Sather Professor at Princeton.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k8-uLxAnngUC&q=Edward+Parmelee+Morris&pg=PA691|title=Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists|date=1994|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313245602|language=en}}
Honors
Morris received an L.H.D. from Williams in 1904 and a Litt.D. from Harvard University in 1909, on the inauguration of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
Bibliography
Some of his notable books are:{{cite web|url=http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Morris,%20E.%20P.%20(Edward%20Parmelee),%201853-1938|title=Morris, E. P. (Edward Parmelee), 1853-1938 - The Online Books Page|work=upenn.edu|access-date=12 March 2017}}
- The Mostellaria of Plautus; with explanatory notes (1880)
- [https://archive.org/details/studylatininpre00morrgoog The Study of Latin in the Preparatory Course] (1886)
- On the sentence-question in Plautus and Terence (1890)
- [https://archive.org/details/captivestrinummu0000plau The Captives and Trinummus of Plautus]{{Cite journal|last=Gallup|first=Frank A.|date=1899-02-01|title=Captives and Trinummus of Plautus. E. P. Morris|journal=The School Review|volume=7|issue=2|pages=113–114|doi=10.1086/434003|issn=0036-6773}} (1898)
- On principles and methods in Latin syntax (1901)
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Category:20th-century American philologists
Category:American classical philologists
Category:Classical scholars of Yale University
Category:Drury University faculty