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Line 1: {{Short description\|American philologist}} '''Oliver Farrar Emerson''' (born in [[Traer, Iowa]], 24 May 1860; died in [[Ocala, Florida]] 13 March 1927) was a [[United States]] [[educator]] and [[philologist]] noted for [[Chaucer]] scholarship and his ''History of the [[English language\|English Language]]''.▼ {{No footnotes\|date=May 2013}} {{Use mdy dates\|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox academic \| name = Oliver Farrar Emerson \| birth_date = {{birth date\|1860\|05\|25}} \| birth_place = [[Traer, Iowa\|Traer]], [[Iowa]], U.S. \| death_date = {{death date and age\|1927\|03\|13\|1860\|06\|2}} \| death_place = [[Ocala, Florida\|Ocala]], [[Florida]], U.S. \| nationality = American \| alma_mater = [[Case Western Reserve University]]<br>[[Cornell University]] \| discipline = [[Philology]] \| workplaces = [[Cornell University ]]<br>Case Western Reserve University }} ▲'''Oliver Farrar Emerson''' (~~born~~May ~~in [[Traer~~24, ~~Iowa]], 24 May~~ 1860; ~~died~~- inMarch ~~[[Ocala~~13, ~~Florida]] 13 March~~ 1927) was a [[United States]] [[educator]] and [[philologist]] noted for [[Chaucer]] scholarship and his ''History of the [[English language\|English Language]]''. ==Biography== Emerson was born in [[Traer, Iowa]], on May 24, 1860. He studied at [[Iowa College]], taking a [[post graduate]] course at [[Cornell University]], where he received the degree of [[Doctor of Philosophy\|D.Ph.]] in 1891. After serving as superintendent of schools in [[Grinnell, Iowa\|Grinnell]] and [[Muscatine, Iowa]], he was principal of the Academy of Iowa College (~~1885-88~~1885–88), instructor in English (~~1889-91~~1889–91) Cornell University and assistant professor of rhetoric and English philology in the same institution (~~1892-96~~1892–96), when he took the same chair at Adelbert College of [[Western Reserve University]]. He became Oviatt Professor of English at Case Western in 1906, and was head of the English department. He was a member of the [[Modern Language Association]], [[American Dialect Society]] and the [[Simplified Spelling Board]]. During his career at Case Western, he resided in [[Cleveland, Ohio\|East Cleveland]] and founded the Novel Club. He was married to Annie Laurie Logan of [[St. Louis]], with whom he had a son and a daughter. He died in [[Ocala, Florida]] March 13, 1927 ==Writings== Line 10 ⟶ 25: * ''History of the English Language'' (1894) * ''A Brief History of the English Language'' (1896) * ''[[Memoirs of My Life and Writings\|Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon]]'' (1898) * ''A Middle English Reader'' (1905) * ''Outline History of the English Language'' (1906) Line 16 ⟶ 31: * ''Dr. [[Samuel Johnson\|Johnson]]'s [[Rasselas]]'' (1895) * ''Poems of [[Chaucer]]'' (1911) ==Notes== {{Reflist}} ==References== * {{Cite web \|url=http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=EOF \|title=The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Emerson, Oliver Farrar \|publisher=ech.cwru.edu \|~~accessdate~~access-date=11 November 11, 2011}}▼ * {{Cite Americana\|Emerson, Oliver Farrar\|vb=1}}▼ ▲* {{Cite web\|url=http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=EOF\|title=The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Emerson, Oliver Farrar\|publisher=ech.cwru.edu\|accessdate=11 November 2011}} ;Attribution ▲* {{~~Cite~~ Americana\|wstitle=Emerson, Oliver Farrar~~\|vb=1~~}} ==External links== {{wikisource author-inline}} {{Internet Archive author \|sname=Oliver Farrar Emerson}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Emerson, Oliver Farrar}} Line 29 ⟶ 55: [[Category:Case Western Reserve University faculty]] [[Category:American philologists]] [[Category:~~American~~Writers ~~historians~~from Cleveland]] [[Category:People from ~~Cleveland~~Tama County, ~~Ohio~~Iowa]] [[Category:Historians from Iowa]] [[Category:Historians from Ohio]] [[Category:Presidents of the Modern Language Association]]