Max Farrand

Max Farrand, Ph.D. (March 29, 1869 – June 17, 1945) was an American university professor and writer of history. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, United States. He graduated from Princeton (A. B., 1892; Ph.D., 1896).

Career

Farrand held various positions at a number of institutions of higher learning, including Wesleyan University, Stanford University, Cornell University, and Yale University. Max Farrand was the first Director of the Huntington Library, after the death of philanthropist Henry E. Huntington, which is located on the historic 'Rancho Huerta de Cuati' in San Marino near Pasadena, California. Later he served as President of the American Historical Society.

Professor Farrand made contributions to historical publications, and he wrote:

• Legislation of Congress for the Government of the Organized Territories of the United States, 1789-1895 (1896)
• Translation of Jellinek's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens (Translation from German to English) (1901)
• Records of Federal Convention of 1787 (three volumes, 1911)
• The Framing of the Constitution of the United States (1913)
• Development of the United States (1918)
• The Fathers of the Constitution (1921)
• The Founders Of The Union (1926)

Family

In 1913 he married the renowned landscape architect Beatrix Farrand (née: Beatrix Cadwalader Rhinelander Jones), who was also the niece of the novelist and socialite Edith Wharton. They remodeled her family's home, Reef Point Estate in Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island in Maine. They retired there after a married life together of summers in Maine and the East Coast, and winters in Montecito near Santa Barbara, California. His brother was the researcher Livingston Farrand. Max Farrand died at Reef Point estate in Bar Harbor in 1945.

Sources

• New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors

External links

• Works by Max Farrand at Project Gutenberg

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Name	Farrand, Max
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Date of birth	March 29, 1869
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Date of death	June 17, 1945
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