Background
NORTHROP, Cyrus was born on September 30, 1834 in Ridgefield. Y. c. of Cyrus and Polly B. (Fancher) Northrop.
NORTHROP, Cyrus was born on September 30, 1834 in Ridgefield. Y. c. of Cyrus and Polly B. (Fancher) Northrop.
Yale; Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of Laws Clerk of Senate and House of Representatives of Connecticut, 1860-1862. Doctor of Laws.
Editor of New Haven Daily Palladium, 1862-1863. Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in Yale College, 1863- 1884. Candidate for Congress, 1867. Yale, Wisconsin, Illinois, and South Carolina; Pres, of University of Minnesota since 1884.
Club: Congregational.
Spouse 1862, Anna Elizabeth,daughter of Joseph D. Warren of Stamford, Conn.
