Background
Bakeless, John was born on December 30, 1894 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Oscar H. and Sara (Harvey) Bakeless.
Bakeless, John was born on December 30, 1894 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Oscar H. and Sara (Harvey) Bakeless.
Bachelor of Arts, Williams College, 1918. Master of Arts, Harvard, 1920, postgraduate, 1919-1926, Doctor of Philosophy, 1936. Doctorate.Humanities, Bridgeport Engineering Institute, 1976.
Editor, Living Age, 1921-1923, managing editor 1923-1925. Literature adviser to The Independent, 1925-1926. Managing editor Forum, 1926-1928.
Editor Living Age, 1928-1929.
Literature editor Literature Digest, 1937-1938. Lecturer journalism New York University, 1927-1929, instructor, 1929-1930, assistant professor, 1930-1940, associate professor, 1940-1947, lecturer journalism, 1947-1954, on graduate faculty, 1948-1954.
Visiting instructor Harvard, summers, 1938-1939, U. Colorado, summer 1962. Trumbull lecturer Yale, 1948, Adams lecturer University of Michigan, 1960.
Gray lecturer Yale, 1964.
Sproul lecturer Dickinson College, 1968. Assistant commandant 1031st O.R.C. School, New Haven, 1952-1953. Guggenheim fellow, 1936-1937, 46-47.
Huntington Library fellow, 1968-1969.
Commissioned Second lieutenant, infantry, 1918, assigned as instructor Central Officers’ Training School, Camp Lee. Captain Infantry Reserve, 1934.
On active duty as captain, infantry, 1940, major, infantry, 1941, major, General Staff Corps, 1942, lieutenant colonel, 1942. Assistant military attache to Turkey, 1944.
Member American section Allied Control Common for Bulgaria, 1945, colonel, 1945.
Member American section Allied Control Common for Bulgaria, 1945, colonel, 1945. Fellow Company Military Historians. Member PEN, National History Society (advisory board).
Society American Historians, Lepidopterists Society, Reserve Officers Association, Connecticut Entomological Society.
Clubs: University, Harvard (New York City).
Married Katherine Little, June 16, 1920.