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Max Farrand | |
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.jpg) Farrand in 1931 | |
| 1st Director of the Huntington Library | |
| In office October 1, 1927 – June 30, 1941 | |
| Succeeded by | Wallace Sterling |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 29, 1869 |
| Died | June 17, 1945 (aged 76) |
| Spouse | |
| Relatives | Livingston Farrand (brother) |
| Education | Princeton University |
| Occupation | Historian |
Known for | First director of the Huntington Library |
Max Farrand (March 29, 1869 – June 17, 1945) was an American historian and university professor. Farrand served as the first director of the Huntington Library.[1]
Early life
[edit]He was born in Newark, New Jersey, United States. He graduated from Princeton with a Bachelors of Arts in 1892 and a PhD in 1896.
Career
[edit]From 1908 to 1925, he was a professor of history at Yale University. Prior to his position at Yale, Farrand also taught at Wesleyan University, Stanford University, and Cornell University. Farrand's area of expertise was constitutional history.[1] Farrand served as director of the Commonwealth Fund, founded in 1918 by Anna M. Harkness.[2]
Farrand assisted Henry E. Huntington in establishing the Huntington Library, located on the historic Rancho Huerta de Cuati' in San Marino, California. Following Huntington's death in 1927, Farrand became the library's first director,[3][4][5] serving until 1941.[6]
In 1921, Farrand was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7] He was elected in 1926 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[8] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1928.[9]
In 1940, Farrand, as President of the American Historical Society delivered an address describing his views on history.[10]
Farrand's final work, an examination of the letters of Benjamin Franklin, was published posthumously in 1949. [11]
Family
[edit]In 1913, Farrand married the landscape architect Beatrix Farrand.[12] They remodeled her family's home, Reef Point Estate in Bar Harbor, Maine, where they spent their summers. They had no children. Farrand's brother was the researcher Livingston Farrand.[13]
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Death and legacy
[edit]The Farrands retired to Reef Point estate in Bar Harbor, which they planned to establish as an independent and self-perpetuating educational corporation.[citation needed] Max Farrand died in 1945 before this could be accomplished. After a wildfire destroyed part of the property in 1955, Beatrix demolished the main house and uprooted the garden. She also donated their extensive library and herbarium specimens to the University of California at Berkeley.[14] John D. Rockefeller purchasing the azaleas from the uprooted gardens for his own Asticou Azalea Garden in Northeast Harbor, Maine. [15]
The Farrands are both buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City.
During the Bicentennial Celebrations, James Hutson, head of the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress, edited a revised edition of Farrand's four volume, The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (Yale University Press, 1976).[16]
Publications
[edit]- Legislation of Congress for the Government of the Organized Territories of the United States, 1789–1895 (1896) [PhD dissertation]
- 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, 1921, and 1921; vol. IV, published in 1937, remains under copyright; also reprinted in 1923, 1927 and 1934)
- 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)
Citations
[edit]- 1 2 "Beatrix Farrand at The Huntington". The Huntington. Retrieved 2025-04-26.
- ↑ "Farrand (Max) Papers". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2025-04-26.
- ↑ "Huntington To Help Research". Los Angeles Times. February 28, 1927. p. 17.
Dr. Farrand is internationally known for his researches in American history, which have been published in a number of books and in various historical journals. He recently served as first Research Associate of the Huntington Library and prepared the plan for research which has just been adopted. He will enter upon his duties next October 1.
- ↑ Stevens, Otheman (March 1, 1927). "Huntington Foundation Head Named: Dr. Max Farrand, Formerly of Yale, to Be in Charge; Large Endowment Added". Los Angeles Examiner. p. 21 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
A change that will add to the potency in scholarly results of the Huntington Library, art gallery and botanical garden has been announced in the appointment of Dr. Max Farrand to be in charge of the entire Foundation.
- ↑ "New Director Arrives". Los Angeles Times. October 9, 1927. p. 78.
Dr. Max Farrand, formerly professor of history at Yale University and a noted scholar, has just arrived in Pasadena after a summer spent in Europe, to assume his new duties as director of research at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Dr. Farrand said today that it will be some time before the alterations on the Huntington residence will be completed. The former home of the late Mr. Huntington is being remodeled for museum use, and the public will be admitted when the work is completed. It was originally expected that this work would be finished this month.
- ↑ "Dr. Farrand to Leave Library". Los Angeles Times. March 7, 1941. p. 2.
Dr. Max Farrand, director of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery for the last 14 years, has resigned effective July 1, the board of trustees announced yesterday. Accepting the resignation with regret, the trustees invited Dr. Farrand to continue his connection with the library as a research associate.
- ↑ "Max Farrand". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
- ↑ "Historic Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
- ↑ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
- ↑ https://www.historians.org/presidential-address/max-farrand/
- ↑ Vernor W. Crane, Max Farrand and Benjamin Franklin's Memoirs, Modern Philology Vol 47, no. 2 (November, 1949) p. 127
- ↑ Beatrix Farrand profile, beatrixfarrandsociety.org; accessed September 27, 2015.
- ↑ Hannan, Caryn (2008-01-01). New Jersey Biographical Dictionary. State History Publications. ISBN 978-1-878592-45-3.
- ↑ "Beatrix Farrand Society".
- ↑ Nolan, David, Beatrix. The Gardening Life of Beatrix Farrand, 1872–1959. (Viking, Penguin Group,1995), p. 90. ISBN 978-0-670-83217-0
- ↑ "Supplement to Max Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention of 1787". Yale University Press. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
General and cited references
[edit]External links
[edit]- Works by Max Farrand at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Max Farrand at the Internet Archive
- Works by Max Farrand at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- 1869 births
- 1945 deaths
- 20th-century American historians
- American male non-fiction writers
- American political writers
- Cornell University Department of History faculty
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Members of the American Philosophical Society
- People associated with the Huntington Library
- People from Bar Harbor, Maine
- Presidents of the American Historical Association
- Princeton University alumni
- Wesleyan University faculty