History of Miami, (Saline County) Missouri United States of America

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Waterman Thomas Hewett, educator, was born in Miami, Mo., Jan. 10, 1846; son of Waterman Thomas and Sarah Woodman (Parsons) Hewett, grandson of Col. Henry R. Parsons, of South Paris, Maine, and a descendant of the Hewetts of Plymouth and Marshfield. He was graduated at the Maine State seminary in 1864, at Amherst college, A.B., 1869, A.M., 1872, and at Cornell university, Ph.D., 1879. He studied modern Greek in Athens and the German language in Germany, 1869-70; was assistant professor of German in Cornell university, 1870-81, and in 1881 was elected full professor of German language and literature. He visited Europe during vacation seasons of 1877-78, 1881, 1887-88 and 1896 for study in the universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Leiden. He was married in June, 1880, to Emma, daughter of George and Mary (Pelton) McChain, who died in Washington, Conn., Sept. 18, 1883; and secondly, Dec. 18, 1889, to Katharine Mary Locke, of New Orleans, La., editor of Freytag's Verlorene Handsschrift. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical society, the American Philological society, the Modern Language Association of America and the Goethe Society of Weimar; foreign member of the Netherland Society of Literature, of the Society of the Frisian Language and Literature of Holland, and of the Frisian Society of Historical Antiquities and Philology. He is the author of The Frisian Lauguage : A Historical Study (1879); The Aims and Methods of Collegiate Instruction in Modern Language (1884); The Mutual Relation of Colleges and Academies (1886); introduction to Life and Genius of Goethe (1886); contributions to Poetry and Philosophy of Goethe (1887); an edition of Goethe's Hermann cud Dorothea (1892); History of Cornell University (1894); an edition of Uhland's Poems (1896); Sources of Goethe's Printed Text (1898); A German Reader (1899), and editorial contributions to Americana Germanica.

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

History of Miami, (Saline County) Missouri

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