Background
Jones, Howard Mumford was born on April 16, 1892 in Saginaw, Michigan, United States. Son of Frank Alexander and Josephine Whitman (Miles) Jones.
Jones, Howard Mumford was born on April 16, 1892 in Saginaw, Michigan, United States. Son of Frank Alexander and Josephine Whitman (Miles) Jones.
Student State Normal School, La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1910-1912. Bachelor of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1914. Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1915.
Doctor of Letters, Harvard, 1936. Doctor of Humane Letters, Tulane University, 1938, Ohio State University, Hebrew Union College, 1962, Northwestern University, 1966, Clarkson College Technology, 1968. The Doctor of Letters, University Colorado, 1938, Western Reserve U., University of Wisconsin, 1948, Clark University, 1952, New York University, 1969, University of Pennsylvania, 1976.
Doctor of Laws, Colby College, 1962, U. Utah, 1966, U. Windsor, 1969.
McLure; married second, Bessie Judith Zaban, June 11, 1927. Adjunct Professor of English and general literature University Texas, 1916-1919, associate professor comparative literature, 1919-1925. Associate Professor of English, U. North Carolina, 1925-1927, Professor of English literature, 1927-1930, Professor of English, University of Michigan, 1930-1936.
Professor of English, Harvard, 1936-1960, Lawrence Lowell professor humanities, 1960-1962, professor emeritus, 1962-1980, editor, Harvard Library Bulletin, 1966-1968, dean Graduate School Arts and Sciences, 1943-1944, educational consultant Provost Marshal Gen’ General’ s Office, 1945, Chairman American Council Learned Socs., 1955-1959. Chairman Weil Institute, 1959-1960. Paley visiting professor Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1964.
Governor Winthrop Rockfeller Distinguished lecturer U. Arkansas, 1975. Guggenheim fellow, 1933, 36. Fellow Center Advanced Studies, Stanford University, 1959, 64-65.
Member Massachusetts History Society, Modern Language Association American, Colonial Society Massachusetts, Texas Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences (president 1944-1951), American Philosophical Society, Phi Belta Kappa (prize and medal for humanities 1973), Sigma Delta Chi, Delta Sigma Rho.
Married Clara Edgar McLure, July 13, 1918.; married second, Bessie Judith Zaban, June 11, 1927.