Background
Myers, Philip Van Ness was born on August 10, 1846 in Tribes’ Hill, New York, United States. Son of Jacob and Catherine L. (Morris) Myers.
Myers, Philip Van Ness was born on August 10, 1846 in Tribes’ Hill, New York, United States. Son of Jacob and Catherine L. (Morris) Myers.
Bachelor of Arts, Williams, 1871, Master of Arts, 1874. Yale Law School, 1873-1874, Bachelor of Laws, 1890. (Doctor of Laws, Belmont College, 1891, University of Cincinnati, 1913.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Miami, 1891).
President Farmers’ College, Ohio, 1879-1890. Professor of history and political economy, 1890-1900, dean academic faculty, 1895-1897, University of Cincinnati. Honorary lecturer in history, same, since 1919.
Lecturer at various home camps under Y.M. Central America, 1917-1918.
Author: Ancient History, 1882. Mediæval and Modern History, 1889.
General History, 1889 (translations into Chinese and Arabic). Eastern Nations and Greece, 1890.
History of Rome, 1890.
History of Greece, 1897. Rome, Its Rise and Fall, 1900. The Middle Ages, 1902.
The Modern Age, 1903.
History as Past Ethics, 1913.
Married Ida C. Miller, July 20, 1876.