Perrin Truman Kellogg died at his home in Whitefield, N. H., April 22, 1907, after a month's illness. Mr. Kellogg was born in Worcester, Vt., Oct. 27, 1862, being the fifth of seven children of William H. and Julia A. (Templeton) Kellogg, He prepared for college ill the Union School of Montpelier, Vt. After graduation he read law in the office of Smilie and Wing of Montpelier, and in 1890 opened an office in Whitefield, where he remained in practice, being also largely interested in various business enterprises in Northern New Hampshire and Vermont. In politios he was a Democrat, and he was several times the candidate of his party for office. In 1889 he married Nellie L. Hackett of Northfield, Vt, who survives him with two daughters.
Professor Arthur Fairbanks has been appointed director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and has entered upon the duties of his new position. Professor Fairbanks was born in Hanover, Nov. 13, 1864, being the son of Professor Henry Fairbanks 53. He was tutor in the College for the first year after graduation, and then studied for the ministry at Yale and Union seminaries, — a profession which he has never actively followed. Study abroad won him the degree of Ph D. from Freiburg University in 1890. For the next two years he taught Greek and German at Dartmouth, and was for the next six years conneCted with the faculty of Yale University. In 1898-9 he occupied a fellowship with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. On his return he was for a year an assistant professor at Cornell, and then for six years professor of Greek in the University of lowa. After one year in a similar position at the University of Michigan, he is called to his present work, for which his profound classical and archeological scholarship eminently fits him. He has recently published a handbook of Greek and Roman mythology, and has in press a monograph on Athenian white figured vases.
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