Background
Shepard, Odell was born on July 22, 1884 in on farm near Rock Falls, Illinois, United States. Son of Bishop William Orville and Emily (Odell) Shepard.
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Shepard, Odell was born on July 22, 1884 in on farm near Rock Falls, Illinois, United States. Son of Bishop William Orville and Emily (Odell) Shepard.
Student Northwestern School of Music, 1900-1904. Northwestern University, 1902-1904. Bachelor of Philisophy, University of Chicago, 1907, the Master of Philisophy, 1908.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1916.
Honorary Doctor of Letters, Northwestern University, 1932, Wesleyan University, 1939. Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Boston University, 1941.
1 son, Willard Odell. City editor The Index, Evanston, Illinois, 1904. Organist various churches, 1905-1907.
Reporter, various newspapers in Chicago and Saint Louis, 1906-1909.
Instructor, Smith Academy, Saint Louis, 1908-1909. Professor of English, University of Southern California, 1909-1914.
Instructor in English, Harvard and Radcliffe College, 1916-1917. Goodwin Professor of English, Trinity College, 1917-1946.
Teacher (summers) University of California, 1920, Columbia, 1925, Breadloaf School, 1947.
Fellow Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, appointed for study abroad, 1927-1928. Member Society of American Historians, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Beta Kappa. Adopted into tribe of Mohegan Indians under name “Chief Many Suns,” 1941.
Married Mary Farwell Record, December 22, 1908.