WILLIAM

See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

FRANCIS

See also:

• ALLEN, BOG OF
• ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
• ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
• ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
• ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
• ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
• WILLIAM FRANCIS ALLEN (183o-1889)
• ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)

ALLEN (183o-1889)  , American classical scholar, was born at Northborough, Massachusetts, on the 5th of September 183o . He graduated at Harvard College in 1851 and subsequently devoted himself almost entirely to literary work and teaching . In 1867 he became professor of ancient languages and history (afterwards Latin language and Roman history) in the university of Wisconsin . He died in December 1889 . His contributions to classical literature chiefly consist of schoolbooks published in the Allen (his brother) and Greenough series . The Collection of Slave Songs (1867), of which he was joint-editor, was the first work of the kind ever published .