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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 ~~inline citations~~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), instructor in English (1889–91) Cornell University and assistant professor of rhetoric and English philology in the same institution (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 18 ⟶ 33: ==Notes== ▲{{No inline citations\|date=May 2013}} {{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}} ;Attribution Line 28 ⟶ 42: ==External links== {{wikisource author-inline}} {{Internet Archive author \|sname=Oliver Farrar Emerson}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Emerson, Oliver Farrar}} [[Category:1860 births]] Line 39 ⟶ 55: [[Category:Case Western Reserve University faculty]] [[Category:American philologists]] [[Category:American historians]]▼ [[Category:Writers from Cleveland]] [[Category:People from Tama County, Iowa]] ▲[[Category:~~American~~Historians ~~historians~~from Iowa]] [[Category:Historians from Ohio]] [[Category:Presidents of the Modern Language Association]]