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Jeremiah D. M. Ford
Ford (1925)
Born
Jeremiah Denis Mathias Ford

(1873-07-02)July 2, 1873
DiedNovember 13, 1958(1958-11-13) (aged 85)
SpouseAnna Winifred Fearns
Children4
Academic background
Alma materScience and Art Department,
Harvard Law School,
Harvard College
Academic work
InstitutionsHarvard University (1895–1943)
Notable studentsChandler Rathfon Post

Jeremiah Denis Mathias Ford (1873–1958) was an American educator and author. He was the Smith Professor Emeritus of the French and Spanish Languages and Literature at Harvard University from 1907 to 1943. He was the youngest-ever to be appointed a professor at Harvard, the first Catholic faculty, and the last ever appointed as Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages from 1911 to 1943.

Biography

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Ford as a young man

Ford was born 2 July 1873, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1] He graduated from Thorndike Grammar School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1886.[2] From 1886 to 1887, he attended the North Monastery Christian Brothers School in Cork, Ireland.

He then attended the Science and Art Department in South Kensington, London, England, from 1887 to 1888. In 1988, he was awarded Distinction in Chemistry and Math in the Science and Art Department Examinations.

He was awarded First Scholar & Gold Medal in English in the Junior Grade, in 1888, and the Silver Medal for German, in 1889, from the Intermediate Education Board, Dublin, Ireland.

He attended Harvard Law School from 1891 to 1892, attaining honors his first year.[3] He then transferred, and attended Harvard College, receiving an A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, in 1894; A.M.,[3] in 1895; and Ph.D, in Romance Philology, in 1897.

Ford was the first Catholic ever hired by Harvard University,[4] he was appointed Instructor in French and Italian in 1895, Harvard Harris Fellow in Romance Philology, Instructor-in-Residence to l'Universitê de Paris, from 1897 to 1898, Instructor in French and Spanish in 1898, Instructor in Romance Languages, in 1899, and Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at Harvard University.

Then, the youngest professor ever at Harvard, he was appointed Smith Professor of the French & Spanish Languages & Literature at Harvard, in 1907, a chair that had been vacant since 1886. He held that Chair until his retirement in 1943, when he became Smith Professor Emeritus.

Notable student's of Fords included Chandler Rathfon Post.[5]

On January 1, 1902, he married Anna Winifred Fearns, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They had four children. He died at his home in Cambridge on November 13, 1958.

Languages

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Courses taught at Harvard

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Honorary degrees

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Medals awarded

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Founder

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President

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Vice-President

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Elected

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Memberships

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Other

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Bibliography

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This is a select list of publications by Ford.

1899

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1900

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1900–1909

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1910−1919

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1920−1929

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1930−39

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1940−1950

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Other

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Articles to which he contributed

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Spanish and Italian article contributions

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References

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  1. ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William (1909). Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States. American Publishers' Association. p. 484.
  2. ^ a b The Catholic Encyclopedia and It's Makers. New York City, New York: The Encyclopedia Press. 1917. pp. 58.
  3. ^ a b Bulletin of Spanish Studies. Institute of Hispanic Studies. 1929. p. 169.
  4. ^ "History of St. Paul Church, Catholics in Early Cambridge". St. Paul Parish. 2014-09-02. Archived from the original on 2014-09-02. Retrieved 2021-03-05. Prof. J.D.M. Ford, the only Catholic member of the faculty [1902], was an occasional intermediary between President Eliot and Fr. Orr and even between the landscaper Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr., and Mayor McNamee, a St. Paul's man.
  5. ^ "Post, Chandler R." The Dictionary of Art Historians. 21 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Honorary Degrees" (PDF). National University of Ireland.

Further reading

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