Max Farrand

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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