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Max Farrand

Professor of History

Centurion, 1910–1945

Born 29 March 1869 in Newark, New Jersey

Died 17 June 1945 in Bar Harbor, Maine

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Proposed by William A. Dunning and M. Taylor Pyne

Elected 5 February 1910 at age forty

Archivist’s Note: Brother of Livingston Farrand and Wilson Farrand

Seconder of:

Century Memorial

Max Farrand. [Born] 1869. Historian.

Not long since the Century had three Farrand brothers—Wilson, Livingston and Max—as members; but now, alas! all are gone. All were scholars and educators. Max was a professor of History at Yale; director of research at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery; organizer, for the Commonwealth Fund, of the American counterpart of the Rhodes Scholarships; President of the American Historical Association. And yet, as the Yale Freshman is reported to have said, no one would ever guess it. He liked good food and wine and knew the best. His responses to companionship were immediate and cordial. His smile was compelling; his laugh gracious. He was the best of companions in the Club, at home, on a salmon river, or at the bridge table.

Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia

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Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1945 Memorials