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TOLMAN, Herbert Cushing<\/b>, educator; born South Situate, Mass., November 4, 1865; ninth descendant from John ALDEN<\/strong>; son of James T. and Mary T. (Briggs) TOLMAN<\/b>; father, manufacturer; paternal grandfather, Col. Samuel TOLMAN<\/b>, maternal grandfather Cushing Otis BRIGGS<\/b>; 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\/<\/i> 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\u2019 Cathedral, Milwaukee, Wis., since 1904; author of \u201cAncient Persian Lexicon and Texts,\u201d 1908, also of \u201cCaesar\u2019s Gallic War,\u201d \u201cGreek and Roman Mythology,\u201d \u201cArt of Translating,\u201d \u201cHerodotus,\u201d \u201cMycennean Troy,\u201d \u201cVision of Perfect Life,\u201d \u201cLesson of Holy Week,\u201d and other books; Professor of Greek Language and Literature Vanderbilt University since 1894.<\/p>\n Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,181,4412,541,7,4062,4419],"tags":[3468,3016,3467],"class_list":{"0":"post-10522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-peabody-college","8":"category-surname-t","9":"category-university-of-nashville","10":"category-vanderbilt-university","11":"category-whoswho","12":"category-x_featured-image-no","13":"tag-alden","14":"tag-briggs","15":"tag-tolman","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12861,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions\/12861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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