History of Rockville, (Tolland County) Connecticut United States of America

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George Edwin Maclean, educator, was born in Rockville, Conn., Aug. 31, 1850; son of Edwin W. and Julia H. (Ladd) MacLean. He was graduated at Williama college A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874, and at Yale Divinity school B.D., 1874, and was ordained by the presbytery of Columbia in 1874. He was married, May 20, 1874, to Clara S., daughter of Charles J. Taylor of Great Barrington, Mass. He was pastor at New Lebanon, N.Y., 1874-77, and of the memorial church, Troy, N.Y., 1877-81. He studied at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig, 1881-83, and received the. degree Ph.D. from Leipzig in 1883. He collected several old English manuscripts in the British Museum and at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, made a tour of Europe, and returned to the United States in 1884. He was professor of the English language and literature in the University of Minnesota, 1884-94, with the exception of the year 1891, when he made a second visit to England, and studied in the British museum. He visited Paris in 1894, and made researches in the Bibliotheque Nationale, and in 1895 was elected chancellor of the University of Nebraska and president of the University senate. He directed the work of the U.S. agricultural experiment station at the University of Nebraska, and in 1889 visited England, Holland and Germany for the purpose of investigating the work done at the various agricultural stations. He was made a member of the Philologieal society of London and of the American Philological society in 1891. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Willlams college in 1895. He edited ?lfrics; Angle-Saxon version of Alcuini Interrogationes Sigewulfi Presbyteri in Genesin (1833); An Old and Middle English Reader by Zupitza (1886); An Introductory Course in Old English (1891), and is the author of: A Chart of English Literatutre with References (1892); An Old and Middle English Reader with Introduction, Notes and Glossary (1893).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Rockville, (Tolland County) Connecticut

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