Edward Parmelee Morris

Edward Parmelee Morris was an American classicist.

Life

He was born on September 17, 1853, in Auburn, New York. He graduated from Yale College in 1874, then moved to Cincinnati where his father was living. 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, Edward, Margaret, and Humphrey. Edward died in infancy. Frances and Margaret both attended Bryn Mawr College. Morris died on November 16, 1938, in New York City.

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. From 1879 to 1884, Morris taught Greek at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri. In 1884, he became the Massachusetts Professor of Latin Language and Literature 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.

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.