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second to few in this or any other country, Professor 

 Cornelius Conway Felton,* who was so long an ornament 

 to Harvard College. He was born in West Newbury, 

 and the old house in which he first saw the light is yet in 

 existence, on the left of the road to Newburyport, not, 

 as "Appleton's Cyclopedia" erroneously says, "now New- 

 bury." Old Newbury has honors enough of its own, 

 without borrowing anything from neighboring towns. 

 Prof. Felton achieved much in the department of Greek 

 literature, and prepared both text books for preparatory 

 schools and editions of classic Greek for colleges. Many 

 of our readers owe much to him in the acquiring of a 

 knowledge of the beautiful tongue of the Greeks. He 

 was a man of wide literary culture, publishing a history 

 of Greece ; Poets and Poetry of Europe (with the aid 

 of Prof. Longfellow) ; a translation of Prof. Guyot's 

 work on Physical Geography, and an edition of the Birds 

 of Aristophanes. He also wrote numerous articles for 

 the " North American Review," and edited several articles 

 for "Appleton's Cyclopedia." Indeed, the world owes 

 something to this town for such a man. 



In theology, Harvard College owes much to the Second 

 Parish of West Newbury, who gave up their pastor from 

 1774 to 1792, Rev. David Tappan, D. D.,f to fill the chair 

 of Divinity in that institution. Audover Theological 

 Seminary also came to this Second Parish of West New- 

 bury to find its first Professor of Theology, Rev. Leonard 



*Pres. Felton, son of Cornelius Conway and Anna (Morse) Felton, was born 

 Nov. 6, 1807. He entered Harvard College in 1823, having studied at the Academy 

 at Bradford, with Joshua Coffin, the historian of Old Newbury, and at the Acad- 

 emy in North Andover under Simeon Putnam. Graduated in 1827, was connected 

 with the Livingston County High School, Geneseo, N. Y., two years, appointed 

 tutor in Harvard in 1829 : Professor of Greek in 1834 and President in 1860. He 

 died Feb. 26, 1802. 



fProf. Tappan was son of Rev. Benjamin Tappan, of Manchester, gr. Harvard 

 College 1771, ord. at West Newbury, April, 1774, and inaug. Hollis Professor of 

 Divinity in Harvard, Dec. 26, 1792; d. at Cambridge, Aug 27, 1803, aged 51. 



