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Source: Cyclopedia
Author: James T. White Co.

Aaron Marshall Elliott

Philologist - was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, Jan. 24, 1846, son of 
Aaron and Rhoda (Mendenhall) Elliott. 

He was prepared for college by tutors and was graduated at Haverford College 
(Penn.) in 1866, continuing his studies at Harvard University until 1868.

He immediately went abroad and took special courses in the subjects of 
literature and philology, spending three years in colleges and universities in 
Paris, two years in Florence, Italy, one year at the University of Madrid, 
Spain, and three years at universities in Munich, Tubingen, Berlin and Vienna.

Returning to the United States in 1876, he became professor of Romance 
languages at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. He was the first to 
introduce accurate and scientific methods in the study of Romance philology, 
and his work has been a distinct and marked advance in the progress of that 
science.

He was the chief organizer in New York city of the Modern Language Association 
of America, which has done much to raise the standard of efficienty in the 
teaching of the modern languages and their literature. He served as secretary 
of the new association for the first seven years of its existence (1883-90), 
and was its president in 1894. 

He was the founder of the quarterly "Publications of the Modern Languagues 
Association," the official organ of the association, and its editor for six 
years; and also the founder of "Modern Language Notes," a monthly, of which he 
still holds the position of editor-in-chief, and to which he has contributed a 
large number of articles on linguistic and literary subjects.

Dr. Elliott has been president of the Harvard Alumni Association of Baltimore, 
the North Carolina Society of Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins Club and the 
Harvard Alumni Association, and vice-president of the University Club of 
Baltimore.

He is a member of the American Philological Association, the Modern Language 
Association, the National Education Association, the American Philosophical 
Society, the American Archaeological Society, the National Geographic Society, 
the North Carolina Society, the American Dante Society, the American Dialect 
Society, the Maryland Historical Society, and the Friends Historical Society.

He was a delegate to the Paris exposition of 1900, and was made a chevalier of 
the Legion of Honor in 1907. The degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by 
Haverford College in 1878, and that of Ph.D. by Princeton University in 1877, 
and L.L.D. by Wake Forest College in 1891 and Haverford College in 1908.

Dr. Elliott was married June 14, 1905 to Lily Tyson Manly, daughter of James 
E. Tyson of Baltimore.

Additional Comments:
Source:
The National Cyclopedia 
of American Biography
Volume XIV
1910

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