AUSTIN, Francis Marion

Date of Birth: January 03, 1862
Born City: Wilmington
Born State/Country: OH
Parents: David Sharp & Lois A.
Date of Death: February 04, 1922
Death City: Bloomington
Death State/Country: IN
Married: Grace Merrill Jevett, 8 Mar. 1893.
Education:
A.B. Ohio Wesleyan, 1887; A.M. 1890; study at Johns Hopkins, 1899-1901, fellowship in Lat., 1901.
Professional Experience:
Gk. instr. in seminaries at Bucksport, ME, 1887-9 & Tilton, NH, 1889-91; instr. Wilbraham (MA) Academy, 1891-9; prof. Lat. & chair dept. Illinois Wesleyan, 1901-22.
Publications:
Outline Lessons for the Study of Ancient Geography (Boston, 1895); "Cacophony in Juvenal, Horace and Persius," AJP 24 (1903) 452-5.
Notes:
Francis Marion Austin headed the Latin department at Illinois Wesleyan for 20 years. Trained in philology by Kirby Flower Smith at Johns Hopkins, he became a scholarly and outstanding teacher. A lifelong Methodist, he was elected to the General Conference four times.
Sources:
WhAm 1:37; CJ 17 (1921-22) 466.
Author: Ward W. Briggs, Jr.

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