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James Mercer Garnett was born on April 24, 1840, at the home of his great-uncle, Charles Fenton Mercer, at Aldie, Loudoun County, Virginia. He was the son of Theodore Stanford Garnett and his wife Florentina Isidora Moreno.
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James Mercer Garnett was born on April 24, 1840, at the home of his great-uncle, Charles Fenton Mercer, at Aldie, Loudoun County, Virginia. He was the son of Theodore Stanford Garnett and his wife Florentina Isidora Moreno.
Following a rather nomadic childhood - his father was a civil engineer - Garnett spent four years at the Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, and then entered the University of Virginia where he further proved his brilliance as a student, took his master’s degree at nineteen and engaged actively in extracurricular pursuits: among other things he assisted in organizing there what is said to have been the first Young Men’s Christian Association incorporated within the precincts of a college.
He resumed his teaching after the war, and in 1869-70 spent a year at the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig studying classical philology.
After teaching for a year, Garnett returned to the University, served in the “Southern Guard” composed of students, and in July 1861 enlisted as a private in the Rockbridge Artillery of “Stonewall” Jackson’s brigade.
When paroled at Appomattox, after fighting throughout the war, he was captain of artillery and ordnance officer of Grimes’s division, II Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.
On his return, he was chosen principal of St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland, and held this office, with the professorship of history and of English language and literature, until 1880, when he resigned. For two years he conducted a school of his own at Ellicott City, Maryland.
In 1882, he was appointed a professor of English language and literature in the University of Virginia and continued as such until 1893, when, the English teaching being divided between two chairs, he was made a professor of English language alone.
He resigned this position three years later, moved to Baltimore, and, after filling for one session a vacancy in the chair of English literature at the Woman’s College, devoted himself to private teaching, writing, and the affairs of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which he had long been zealously interested.
Garnett's Beowulf, a strictly literal version, was the first American translation of the poem and was accorded a flattering reception. It was most favorably reviewed by the German critics; was commanded by English and American authorities; and was cordially welcomed by American schools and colleges, passing through four editions. As a teacher, he was less successful.
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Garnett was an accurate, painstaking, and erudite scholar, though the amount of his published work was not large.
He failed to fire the imaginations of his students, and his own rich scholarship, culture, and exacting ideals did not serve to make him indulgent of the limitations of their knowledge.
During his later years, he prepared biographical sketches of a number of his distinguished relatives, notably his grandfather, James Mercer Garnett, and his first cousin, M. R. H. Garnett, and in 1910 published a Genealogy of the Mercer-Garnett Family.
Garnett married, April 19, 1871, Kate Huntington Noland, of Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia.
