Background
Forsythe, Robert Stanley was born on October 6, 1886 in Lincoln, Illinois, United States. Son of Robert Nelson and Anna (Potter) Forsythe.
Forsythe, Robert Stanley was born on October 6, 1886 in Lincoln, Illinois, United States. Son of Robert Nelson and Anna (Potter) Forsythe.
Bachelor of Laws, Lincoln (Illinois) College, 1908, Doctor of Letters, 1929. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1909, fellow, 1912-1913, Doctor of Philosophy, 1914. Student of University of Illinois, summer 1911, University of Wisconsin, summer 1912.
Served as instructor in rhetoric, University of Kansas, 1909-1911. Instructor in English, Western Reserve University, 1914-1917, assistant professor, 1917-1918. Same, Northwestern University, 1918-1926.
Also lecturer in English, School of Commerce, same University, 1920-1923, 1924-1926, and special bibliographer, Newberry Library, Chicago, 1926.
Professor of English, University of North Dakota, 1926-1933. Head department of book selection, Newberry Library, Chicago, since 1933.
Exchange lecturer, University of Manitoba, 1926-1927. Visiting instructor Harvard University Summer School, 1931, 33.
Associate editor Quarterly Journal of University of North Dakota, 1929-1932.
Member of advisory board American Literature, since 1932, advisory board The Living Age, since 1932, advisory council, Scholars’ Facsimiles Association, since 1937.
Served as instructor in rhetoric, University of Kansas, 1909-1911. Member special representative of War Department in France, 1918-1919.
Married Nelle R. Lucas, August 24, 1915 (died 1937).