All Scholars
COHOON, James Wilfred
- Date of Birth: November 03, 1878
- Born City: Birr
- Born State/Country: ON
- Date of Death: October 22, 1946
- Death City: Sackville
- Death State/Country: NB
- Education:
BA U. Toronto (Victoria Coll), 1906, MA, 1908; PhD Princeton, 1914
- Dissertation:
“Rhetorical Studies in the Arbitration Scene of Menander's Epitrepontes,” (Princeton, 1914); printed (Boston, 1915) and TAPA 45 (1914) 141-230.
- Professional Experience:
Lat tchr Stanstead Wesleyan Coll, 1906-7; Leamington (ON) HS, 1908-9; Lat & Gk tchr University Schools, U Toronto, 1911-2; asso prof, to prof, class & Germ Mt Allison U, 1915-6; Wood prof, class, 1919-46.
- Publications:
Plutarch's Lives, trans B. Perrin, LCL, vol 11, index to vols 1-11 by Cohoon (New York & London, 1926); Dio Chrysostom, (trans), LCL, vol 1 (New York & London, 1932), vol 2 (Cambridge & London, 1939), vol 3, with H L Crosby (Cambridge & London, 1940); “A Textual Item in Herodotus,” AJP 64 (1943) 439-40.
- Notes:
Shy, diffident, committed to scholarship but trammeled by the pressures of an unduly heavy teaching schedule, “Jimmie Willie” was nevertheless Mount Allison's preeminent humanist scholar and a respected contributor to the Loeb Classical Library with a recondite, demanding author, Dio Chrysostom. Although the third volume was well advanced, Cohoon was unable to complete the project and the later volumes were assigned to Pennsylvania's H. Lamar Crosby. A gifted linguist, distinguished at home and abroad, an admirable teacher and self-effacing, gallant servant of his university for three decades, Cohoon was mourned at his death and his funeral was attended by the entire faculty and student body.
- Sources:
Mt Allison Argosy 42 (1915) 12; DAS 1942:160; Mt Allison Record 30 (1946) 9-10; John G Reid, Mount Allison University: A History to 1963 (Toronto, 1984) 36-7, 205; Albert W Trueman, A Second View of Things: A Memoir (Toronto, 1982) 33.
- Author: Alexander G. McKay