History of Ogden Center, (Monroe County) New York United States of America

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Biography of Francis Willey Kelsey

Francis Willey Kelsey, educator, was born in Ogden, N.Y., May 23, 1858; son of Henry and Olive (Trowbridge) Kelsey, and a nephew of John Townsend Trowbridge. Francis attended the Union school at Lockport, N.Y., and was graduated from the University of Rochester, A.B., 1880. He was professor of Latin at Lake Forest college, 1880-89, and became professor of Latin at the University of Michigan in 1889. He studied in Europe, 1883, 1884-85 and 1892-93. He was married, Dec. 22, 1886, to Mary Isabelle Badger. He became joint editor with Prof. Percy Gardner, of the University of Oxford, of the Handbooks of Archaeology and Antiquities. He prepared and published an edition of C?sar's Gallic War (1886), and several other text books; and also prepared the English edition of August Mau's Pompeii: Its Life and Art (1899).

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