Franklin Carter

Background

Carter was born September 30, 1837 in Waterbury, Connecticut, the third son of Deacon P. W. Carter and Ruth Holmes Carter.

Education

He attended Phillips Academy Andover, then matriculated at Yale College in 1855.

Career

He became sick and retreated to Florida, until 1860, when he entered Williams College. Graduating in 1862, he received a professorship in French and German the following year. He took up teaching in 1865, becoming head of the Latin department in 1868 before becoming Professor of German at Yale College in 1873.

Franklin was the head of a language scholar organisation called the Modern Languages Association.

He later became president of the Williams College in 1881, the first president of the university to also be a scholar. As president, Carter doubled the size of the faculty and completed eight buildings.

Connections

Friend:

John Haskell Hewitt