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  JOHN FELTON - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN FELTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
His left hand was early disabled by a wound, and a morose temper rendered him unpopular and prevented his advancement.
Whether he took part in the expedition to Rh in 1627 is uncertain, but there is no doubt that he continued to be refused promotion, and that even his scanty pay earned during the Cadiz adventure was not received.
He was tried before the kings bench on the 27th of November, pleaded guilty, and was hanged the next day, his body being exposed in chains subsequently at Portsmouth.
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 Cornelius Conway Felton
President Felton was a member of the Massachusetts board of education, and one of the regents of the Smithsonian institution, His literary labors were extended, and he wits one of the most profound and enthusiastic classical scholars in the country.
His brother, Samuel Norse Felton, civil engineer, born in West Newbury, Massachusetts, 17 July 1809, was graduated at Harvard in 1834, studied civil engineering, became superintendent and engineer of the Fitchburg railroad in 1843, and left it in 1851 to become the president of the Philadelphia, Washington, and Baltimore road, where he remained until 1865.
Felton organized and armed a force of trained men, who, while apparently whitewashing the bridges, were in reality a guard that could be summoned instantly.
www.famousamericans.net /corneliusconwayfelton   (1075 words)

  
 §17. Cornelius Conway Felton. XXV. Scholars. Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III. The Cambridge History ...
Felton (1807–62), like Harrison, his exact contemporary, received all his training in this country.
Seven years after his graduation from Harvard he became in 1834 Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, made his first journey abroad in 1853–54, spending several months in Greece, and became president of Harvard two years before his death.
The close friend of Longfellow, Felton, was a genial soul, enthusiastic for antiquity, who rather deprecated minute grammatical study and overmuch concern with choric metres and textual readings and emendations.
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 The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Photographs
This rare daguerreotype diptych shows Cornelius Conway Felton (1807—1862), Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University, reaching for his felt hat and duster.
The first son of a poverty-stricken furniture maker, Felton became one of the most renowned classical scholars in the country and, in 1860, Harvard's president.
Although Felton donned academic robes, he never lost his connection to the everyday experiences of common folk.
www.metmuseum.org /Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=19&viewmode=0&item=1997.382.41   (264 words)

  
 Tom Felton in TutorGig Encyclopedia
Felton was born at Maldon, Essex, on 8 December 1831.
Felton, is a hamlet roughly five kilometers south of the town of Russell, Ontario community Russell...
Cornelius Conway Felton November 6, 1807 February 26, 1862 was an American educator.
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 20th Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Vol 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
FELTON, Cornelius Conway, educator, was born in West Newbury, Mass., Nov. 6, 1807; son of Cornelius Conway and Anna (Morse) Felton; grandson of Thomas and Martha (Conway) Felton; and great, great, great, great-grandson of Lieut.
Nathaniel Felton, who came from Yarmouth, England, was married to Mary, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Skelton, and settled in Salem, Mass., in 1633.
During his college course at Harvard, Cornelius partially supported himself by teaching in Boston, Concord and at Round Hill school, Northampton.
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 Whitney Articles, NEHGR, Vol. 16   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
D., President of Harvard University, died at Chester, Pa., at the residence of his brother, Samuel M. Felton, Wednesday evening, FEb. 26, at half-past seven o'clock, aged 54.
He was son of Cornelius Conway and Anna (Morse) Felton; was born in Newbury, now West Newbury, Mass., Nov. 6, 1807.
Felton married in the summer of 1838, Mary Whitney, dau.
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 Heels, Sox & Steelers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
But the year was somewhat disappointing for the Tar Heels, who finished 19-11 overall, 8-8 in the ACC and lost in the first round of the ACC tournament and the second round of the NCAAs.
Felton, the ACC's preseason player of the year, was named to the all-ACC third team and averaged 11.5 points and 7.1 assists, but he shot just 31.2 percent on three-pointers.
In particular, guards Raymond Felton and Rashad McCants and F/C Sean May could all forego their last two years of college eligibility and turn pro.
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Born in 1987 in London, Tom Felton was cast in the role of Draco Malfoy for the Harry Potter films...
Like the fact that Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy has a retainer on his lower teeth that is visible when they are waiting on the stairs to be sorted.
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 Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall Complex
Mary S. Felton provided funds for a window in memory of her father, Cornelius Conway Felton, Professor of Greek at Harvard from 1832-1860, and President of Harvard from 1860-1862.
On the right half of the window stands Athena, a symbol of Greek learning for which Felton was distinguished.
Athena wears on her breast a gold ornament, and on her head a bronze Greek helmet with a plume, neckpiece, and cheekguards.
www.fas.harvard.edu /~memhall/staingls-pg2.html   (523 words)

  
 Skeeter Davis Albums
Her self-stacked harmonies are artfully contributed and provide an honesty to her music that has established her as an unmistakable standard artist.
Specifically, let's cover the outer edges and work toward the middle; my least favorite cut in the package is "Timothy," one of Felton Jarvis' two production offerings in the group.
Top of the pile, in my estimate, is a draw between "Stay Awhile With Me" and "A Good Love is Like A Good Song." Both are tasteful handlings of good material.
www.ronstadt-linda.com /skeeterdavis/skeeter7186.htm   (421 words)

  
 CORNELIUS CONWAY FELTON-[ruv.net : Online Encyclopedia Britannica : 1911 Edition]-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
CORNELIUS CONWAY FELTON-[ruv.net : Online Encyclopedia Britannica : 1911 Edition]-
FELTON, CORNELIUS CONWAY (1807-1862), American :lassical scholar, was born on the 6th of November 1807, in West N~ewbury, Massachusetts.
He graduated at Harvard College in 1827, having taught school in the winter vacations of his sophomore and junior years.
britannica.ruv.net /F/FE/FELTON_CORNELIUS_CONWAY.htm   (219 words)

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