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was born in Newark, New Jersey, the youngest of the four sons of Louise (Wilson) and Samuel Ashbel Farrand, and a brother of Livingston Farrand.
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Excerpt from The Framing of the Constitution of the United States Nor is this intended to be a complete history. It is a brief presentation of the author's personal interpretation of what took place in the federal convention. It is merely a sketch in outline, the details of which each student must fill out according to his own needs. This book is founded upon the work the author has already referred to as edited by himself, The Records of the Federal Convention (new Haven, Yale University Press, 1911. 3 In the writing of it scarcely anything else has been used. The Records are so arranged as to render most of the citations easily found, and accordingly, with few exceptions, all footnote references have been omitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The Fathers of the Constitution- Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union is a classic American history text by Max Farrand. "The United States of America"! It was in the Declaration of Independence that this name was first and formally proclaimed to the world, and to maintain its verity the war of the Revolution was fought. Americans like to think that they were then assuming "among the Powers of the Earth the equal and independent Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them"; and, in view of their subsequent marvelous development, they are inclined to add that it must have been before an expectant world.
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Max Farrand, Ph.D. (1869 – 1945) was an American historian, who taught at several universities and was the first director of the Huntington Library. Farrand taught at Wesleyan University, then after several years at Stanford University, and a year at Cornell University, he became a professor of history at Yale University (1908-1925). His particular area of interest and expertise was the Founding Fathers, the organization of the United States after the American Revolutionary War. Drawing on the rich store of materials in his "Records of the Federal Convention," Professor Farrand here presents the story of the making of the Constitution in narrative form. We think he does himself less than justice in describing it as "a brief presentation of the author's personal interpretation of what took place in the federal convention, merely a sketch in outline, the details of which each student must fill out according to his own needs." It is of course not the final word on the subject. It may be that the definitive history of the convention of 1787 will never be written. None the less, this volume is a valuable contribution to American historical literature. It is comprehensive without being diffuse, it contains all that is essential for the general reader, it is accurate in all details and free from any bias, and it is embellished by a clear, pleasant, and graphic style. It is, moreover, of absorbing interest, not only as a recital of momentous events, but from the manner in which the personal characteristics and the political opinions of the members of the convention are exhibited. Here we have a "close up" view of the fathers of the Republic, as they labored through the long weeks of an unusually hot summer, not at all harmonious in their thoughts upon the formation of the new government, not free from spirited and even acrimonious debate, but all earnestly bent upon the accomplishment of their tremendous task, and finally uniting in the composition of the most important of all political instruments. Here we see the august Washington, carefully abstaining from participation in the debates, even when the convention sat in committee of the whole, lest his immense influence should overawe the other delegates, yet unable wholly to suppress his smiles or frowns as he favored or disapproved the proposals brought forward. Here also we have pictures of the venerable and philosophic Franklin, casting counsels of moderation upon the stormy waters of debate; of Madison, the methodical, learned, and industrious, the scholar in politics, yet more than anyone else the father of the Constitution; of the small and tense frame of Hamilton, the aristocrat, as he delivered his one great speech in the convention; of Luther Martin, able and (as some thought) unscrupulous, inconceivably tedious and prolix, and yet the author of the "supreme law of the land" clause; of the brilliant and slightly presumptuous youth from South Carolina, Charles Pinckney; of William Pierce of Georgia, that most excellent "mixer," blessed with a sense of humor, who placed posterity under an obligation by recording in familiar phrases his personal impressions of all his fellow delegates; and of those gifted men and solid citizens Mason, King, Ellsworth, Sherman, Gerry, Wilson, Randolph and the two Morrises. In these days, perhaps more than at any other time, it is important that American citizens should acquaint themselves with their Constitution. This cannot be done by a mere perusal of its text. A knowledge of its spirit, its great purposes, its historical bases, can be gathered only from a study of why and how it came to be made. To all who value the institutions of our country and desire an intelligent appreciation of their worth and the reasons for their existence Professor Farrand's excellent work is highly commended. Originally published in 1913; reformatted for the Kindle; may contain an occasional imperfection; original spellings have been kept in place.
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One of the most important historical descriptions of the people who came together in that one unique time and place that was Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1787 to craft one of the most important documents in history. Vividly bringing to the forefront the personalities of Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Morris, and all the others, Max Farrand crafted a penetrating look at the historical lessons behind the lasting rules of governance that created the United States. This edition has been optimized for Kindle with a functioning table of contents and all notes.
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was born in Newark, New Jersey, the youngest of the four sons of Louise (Wilson) and Samuel Ashbel Farrand, and a brother of Livingston Farrand.
After graduating in 1885 from Newark Academy, of which his father was headmaster, Max attended Princeton, from which he graduated in 1892.
He majored in biology, but among his friends were students with strong literary interests, including the novelist Booth Tarkington, and after taking a course with Woodrow Wilson, Farrand decided to pursue graduate study in history.
He interrupted his graduate work at Princeton with brief periods of study at Heidelberg and Leipzig, where he became familiar with the scientific approach to history and developed a penchant for accuracy which he later applied to his editorial work. Having completed his Ph. D. in 1896, with a dissertation on The Legislation of Congress for the Government of the Original Territories of the United States, 1789-1795 (1896), he accepted a position at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and there quickly rose to the rank of professor.
In 1901 David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, persuaded Farrand to become head of the department of history at Stanford. But he soon found that administering a department was no easy matter, and he was disappointed when the offer of a professorship to Frederick Jackson Turner had to be postponed indefinitely following the 1906 earthquake, which destroyed many campus buildings. Farrand was also dissatisfied with Stanford's limited library resources, which he judged inadequate for historical research and graduate study.
During a visit to southern California in 1926, Farrand met the astronomer George E. Hale [Supp. 2], a trustee of the library and art gallery which the railroad executive Henry E. Huntington was setting up on his estate in San Marino, Calif. Farrand was invited to participate in the planning of the library and prepared an "operating program" which was approved by Huntington.
In February 1927 he was appointed director of research. Backed by advice from fellow scholars, Farrand soon succeeded in transforming a wealthy collector's library into a leading research center for the study of Anglo-American civilization. With Hale's support, he persuaded Huntington to increase his initial endowment of $4, 000, 000 to an ultimate $10, 500, 000, and thus was able to set up a research staff, to finance a program of fellowships for scholars, to equip the library with extensive reference and bibliographical aids, and to publish, under the library's imprint, the Huntington Library Bulletin (later Quarterly) and a stream of monographs. He continued as director of research until his retirement in 1941.
Together they entertained staff members and visiting scholars in the director's house on the Huntington Library grounds. Farrand was president of the American Historical Association in 1940. He received honorary degrees from seven colleges and universities, including Michigan, California, and Princeton.
Farrand died of cancer at the age of seventy-six at his summer home at Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine. Following cremation, his ashes were scattered at Reef Point.
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(Max Farrand, Ph.D. (1869 – 1945) was an American historia...)
Farrand was a member of the Commonwealth Fund.
He had an imposing, broad-shouldered, bespectacled figure.
On December 17, 1913, Farrand had married Beatrix Cadwalader Jones, a well-known landscape architect from a distinguished New York family. There were no children.