MORRIS, GEORGE DAVIS: 1864-
George Davis Morris , son of William Frampton and Mary Ellen Swain Morris, was born in Elwood, Ind., on May 25, 1864, and graduated from Indiana University in 1890. In 1895 he received the A.M. degree from the same institution. He also studied in France , at the University of Paris and the University of Grenoble. He married Emma Zeiss of Oxford, Ind., on Dec. 27, 1899.
After teaching in Kansas for a year and Colorado for two years, in 1893 he came to Indiana University as instructor in French and from 1919 to 1938 was professor of French there. He translated and edited several books of French and English literature not listed here.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Fenimore Cooper et Edgar Poe D'Après La
Critique Française du Dix-Neuvième Siecle.
Paris, 1912.
