History of Locust Grove, (Lewis County) New York United States of America

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Augustus Chapman Merriam, educator, was born at Locust Grove, Lewis county, N.Y., May 30, 1843. He was graduated at Columbia college, A.B., 1866, A.M., 1869; was a teacher in Columbia grammar school, 1867-68; tutor in Columbia college, 1868-80; adjunct professor of the Greek language and literature, 1880-89, and professor of Greek archaeology and epigraphy, 1889-95. He was also the senior active professor in the school of philosophy, and one of the senior instructors in the school of arts. He was the director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, 1887-88, and as such superintended the excavations at Sicyon and Icaria, and succeeded in locating the much-disputed birthplace of Thespis at Icaria. He also carried on excavations in the theatre of Sicyon, and in his investigations discovered many valuable pieces of sculpture and inscriptions, including an important statue. In 1883 he discovered several errors in the Greek and Latin inscriptions placed on the restored bronze crabs under the obelisk in Central Park, which were afterward corrected. He was president of the American Philological association, 1886-87, and of the New York Society of the Arch?ological Institute of America, 1891-94. He received the degree Ph.D. from Hamilton college in 1879. He was an associate editor of the American Journal of Arch?ology, edited the papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, contributed to the American Journal of Philology, the American Journal of Arch?ology, and to editions of the Odyssey and Herodotus, and is the author of: The Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Obelisk Crab in Central Park (1883), and The Law Code of Gortyna in Crete: Text, Translation and Comment (1886). He died in Athens, Greece, Jan. 19, 1895.

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

History of Locust Grove, (Lewis County) New York

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