Background
Phelps, William Lyon was born on January 2, 1865 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Review S. Dryden and Sophia Emilia (Linsley) Phelps.
Phelps, William Lyon was born on January 2, 1865 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Review S. Dryden and Sophia Emilia (Linsley) Phelps.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1887, Doctor of Philosophy, 1891. Master of Arts, Harvard, 1891; Doctor of Letters, Brown University, 1921, Colgate University, 1921, McMaster, 1927, Columbia University, 1933, Lafayette College, 1939, University of Vermont, 1941. Doctor of Humane Letters, New York University, 1927, Muhlenberg College, 1931.
Doctor of Laws, Kalamazoo College, 1927, Denison University, Ohio, 1931, Miami University, Oxford, O., 1933, Yale, 1934, Clark, 1939.
Doctor of Divinity, Tusculum College, Tennessee, 1928. South.T.D., Syracuse, 1930.
Doctor of Civil Law, Jefferson Medical College, 1940, Hahnemann Medical College, 1940, Pennsylvania Military College, 1940.
Instructor English, Harvard, 1891-1892. Instructor English literature, Yale, 1892-1896, assistant Professor of English literature, 1896-1901, Lampson professor, 1901-1933. Received gold medal, Holland Society (for eminence in literature).
Gold medal, National Society New England Women.
Gold medal, Connecticut Foot Guard.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Geography Society. Member American Academy, Arts and Letters, American Philosophical Society, National Institute Social Science (awarded gold medal).
Married Annabel Hubbard, December 21, 1892 (died 1939).