City: Nashville
TOLMAN, Herbert Cushing, educator; born South Situate, Mass., November 4, 1865; ninth descendant from John ALDEN; son of James T. and Mary T. (Briggs) TOLMAN; father, manufacturer; paternal grandfather, Col. Samuel TOLMAN, maternal grandfather Cushing Otis BRIGGS; educated Yale University, University of Berlin and University of Munich; graduated Yale University, B.A., 1888, Ph.D. 1890, University of Nashville, Peabody College, D.D. 1900; early occupation, Instructor at Yale, 1888-91; member Royal Asiatic Sciety /sic/ of Great Britain and Ireland, Phi Beta Kappa (Yale), and President of Alpha of Tennessee 1900, and three times member of National Council; member of First Archaeological Congress, Athens, Greece; International Congress, St. Louis Exposition; Honorary Canon of All Saints’ Cathedral, Milwaukee, Wis., since 1904; author of “Ancient Persian Lexicon and Texts,” 1908, also of “Caesar’s Gallic War,” “Greek and Roman Mythology,” “Art of Translating,” “Herodotus,” “Mycennean Troy,” “Vision of Perfect Life,” “Lesson of Holy Week,” and other books; Professor of Greek Language and Literature Vanderbilt University since 1894.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
