NICOLSON, Frank W.

NICOLSON, Frank Walter. Sackville, Nova Scotia 4.11.1864 — Middletown, Middlesex CT 21.12.1946. Canadian Classical Scholar in the U.S.A. Son of Alexander Wylie Nicolson and Lydia F. Huestis. Studies at Mount Allison Wesleyan College (B.A. 1883) and Harvard (A.B. 1887 in Classics, A.M. 1888). In 1888-89 Instructor in Sanskrit and 1889-91 in Latin at Harvard. Then at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. from 1913 full Professor of Latin until retirement in 1934. LL.D. 1920 Mount Allison University. L.H.D. 1932 Amherst College. Married 1891 Louise Narraway (1865–1953), one daughter.

Publications: Ed. The Plutus of Aristophanes. Boston 1896; plays of Terence.

Sources: http://www.mta.ca/libraryhistory/frank_walter_nicolson.html with early photo; parents and wife in ancestors.familysearch.org.

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