Amherst College Faculty, 1905

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The following is a list of faculty members of the Amherst College (Amherst Massachusetts) as they appeared in the 1905 "AMHERST OLIO"

• George Harris
  President: Born East Machias, Maine. B.A., Amherst, ’66; D.D., Amherst, ’83; D.D., Harvard, ’99; LL.D., Dartmouth, ’99; D.D., Yale, ’01.

• Edward Payson Crowell
  Professor of Latin and Literature: Born in Essex MA, September 7, 1830. B.A., Amherst, ’53; M.A., Amherst, ’56; D.D., Williams, ’82.

• Edward Hitchcock
  Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education: Born at Amherst, MA, May 23. 1828. B.A., Amherst, ’49; M.A., Amherst, ’52; M.D., Harvard. ’53; LL. D., Amherst, ’99.

• William Cole Esty
  Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy: Born Westmoreland, N.H. April 8, 1838. B.A., Amherst, ’60; LL. D., Amherst, ’91.

• Elijah Paddock Harris
  Professor of Chemistry: Born in Le Roy, NY, April 3, 1832. B.A., Amherst, ’55; Ph.D., University of Goettingen, ’59; LL.D., Victoria College, Toronto, ’90.

• Benjamin Kendall Emerson
  Professor of Mineralogy and Geology: Born at Nashua, NH, December 20, 1843. B.A., Amherst, ’65; Ph.D., University of Goettingen, ’67.

• Rev. Herman Humphrey Neill
  Professor of English Literature: Born in Hatfield, MA, August 28, 1824. B.A., Amherst, ’66; M.A., Amherst, ’69.

• Anson Daniel Morse
  Professor of History: Born at Cambridge, VT, 1846. B.A., Amherst, ’71; M.A., Amherst, ’74; LL.D., Union, ’95.

• Henry Bullard Richardson
  Professor of German Language and Literature: Born in Franklin, MA, May 21, 1844. B.A., Amherst, ’69, M.A., Amherst, ’72.

• John Mason Tyler
  Professor of Biology: Born at Amherst, MA, May 18, 1851. B.A., Amherst, ’73; Ph.D., Colgate, ’88.

• Charles Edward Garman
  Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy: Born at Limington ME, December 18, 1850. B.A., Amherst, ’72; M.A., Amherst, ’80; B.D., Yale Theological Seminary, ’79; D.D., Amherst, ’96.

• David Todd
  Professor of Astronomy, Director of the Observatory and Secretary of the Faculty: Born at Lake Ridge, NY, March 19, 1855. B.A., Amherst, ’75; M.A., Amherst, ’78; Ph.D., Washington and Jefferson, ’87.

• John Franklin Genung
  Professor of Rhetoric: Born in Tioga County, NY, January 21, 1850. B.A. Union, ’70; M.A., and Ph.D., Leipsic, ’81.

• Willard Lyman Cowles
  Professor of Latin: Born at Belchertown, MA, April 11, 1856. B.A., Amherst, ’78; M.A, Amherst, 81.

• Arthur Lalanne Kimball
  Professor of Physics: Born at Succasunna, NJ, in 1856. B.A., Princeton, ’81; M.A., Princeton, ’84; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ’84.

• George Daniels Olds
  Professor of Mathematics: Born at Middleport, NY, 1853. B.A., University of Rochester, ’73; M.A., University of Rochester, ’76.

• Rev. Edward Augustus Grosvenor
  Professor of Modern Government and International Law: Born at Newburyport, MA, August 30, 1845. B.A., Amherst, ’67; M.A., Amherst, ’71; LL.D., Wabash. ’03.

• Rev. Henry Preserved Smith
  Professor of Biblical History and Interpretation, and Associate Pastor of the College Church: Born in Troy, Ohio, October 23, 1847. B.A., Amherst, ’69; D.D., Maryville, ’82; Amherst, ’85; College of New Jersey, ’87.

• Harry de Forrest Smith
  Professor of Greek: Born at Gardiner, ME, 1869. B.A., Bowdoin, ’91; M.A., Bowdoin, ’94; Harvard, ’96.

• Levi Harry Elwell
  Associate Professor of Greek and Instructor in Sanskrit: Born at Northampton, MA, March 22, 1854. B.A., Amherst, ’75; M.A., Amherst, ’78.

• Arthur John Hopkins
  Associate Professor of Chemistry: Born in Bridgewater, MA, 1864. B.A., Amherst, ’85; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ’93.

• Joseph Osgood Thompson
  Associate Professor of Physics: Born at Weymouth, MA. B.A., Amherst, ’84; Ph.D., University of Strassburg, ’91.

• James Walter Crook
  Associate Professor of Political Economy: Born in Ontario, Canada, December 21, 1859. B.A., Oberlin, ’91; Ph.D., Columbia, ‘98

• Paul Chrysostom Phillips
  Associate Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education: Born at Ayer Junction, MA, 1865. B.A., Amherst, ’88; M.D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, NY, ’95

• George Bosworth Churchill
  Associate Professor of English Literature: Born at Worcester MA, October 21, 1866. B.A., Amherst, ’89; M.A., Amherst, ’92; Ph.D., Berlin University, ’97.

• William Pingry Bigelow
  Associate Professor of German and Music: Born in Amherst, MA, March 29, 1867. B.A., Amherst,’89; M.A., Amherst, ’98

• William Albert Nitze
  Associate Professor of Romance Languages: Born in Baltimore, MD, March 20, 1876. B.A., Johns Hopkins, ’94; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ’99

• Richard Francis Nelligan
  Instructor of Gymnastics and Athletics: Born in Cambridge, MA, 1861. Boston Normal School, ’86.

• Herbert Percival Galllinger
  Instructor in History: Born in Ontario, Canada, 1869. B.A., Amherst, ’93; Ph.D., Leipsic, ’98.

• Frederick Brewster Loomis
  Instructor in Biology: Born at Brooklyn, NY, November 22, 1873. B.A., Amherst, ’96; Ph.D., University of Munich, ‘99

• Arthur Henry Baxter
  Instructor in Romance Languages: Born in Florence, Italy, December 12, 1871. A.B. Johns Hopkins, ’94; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ’98.

• Ernest Hatch Wilkins
  Instructor in Latin and Romance Languages: Born at Newton Center, MA, September 14, 1880. B.A., Amherst, ’01; M.A., Amherst, ’03.

• William Jesse Newlin
  Instructor in Mathematics: Born at Port Carbon, PA, August 28, 1878. B.A., Amherst, ’99; M.A., Amherst, ’03; B.S., M.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ’01.

• Robert M. Chapin
  Instructor in Chemistry: Born at North Weymouth, MA, 1877. B.A., Amherst, ’97.

• John Corsa
  Instructor in Public Speaking: Born at Milford, DE, 1874. B.A., Amherst, ’99.

• John Erskine
  Instructor in English: Born in New York City. B.A., Columbia ’00; Ph.D., Columbia, ’03

• Curtis Howe Walker
  Instructor in History: Born at Orange, CT, 1877. B.A., Yale, ’99.

• William Isaac Fletcher
  Otis Librarian: Born in Burlington VT, 1844. M.A., (Honorary), Amherst, ’94.

• Arthur Henry Pierce
  Professor of Psychology in Smith College, Acting Professor of Philosophy in Amherst College: Born at Westbury, MA, 1867. B.A., Amherst, ’88; Ph.D., Harvard, ’99.

• Frank Otis Reed
  Rufus B. Kellogg University Fellow: Born, Orange, MA, 1876. B.A., Amherst, ’99.

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