Greenbrier County, West Virginia         Biography of Milton Wylie HUMPHREYS

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Bibliography:
Johnson, Rossiter, ed. Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable
Americans, - Vol. I-X (10). Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, 1904.
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HUMPHREYS, Milton Wylie, educator, was born in Greenbrier, Va., Sept. 15,
1844; son of Andrew Caret and Mary McQuain (Herner) Humphreys; grandson of Robert
Humphreys and of Daniel Hefner, and a descendant of Samuel Humphreys, who
emigrated to Pennsylvania from Ireland before the Revolution, and finally
settled in Greenbrier county, Va., and of Jacob Hefner, a native of Germany,
who died of wounds received in the Revolutionary war. He Was a student at
Washington college, Lexington, Va., but left to enter the Confederate army
in 1861, serving in the artillery. He returned to the college after the war,
and was graduated A.M. with first honors in 1869, when he delivered the
oration in honor of the society of the Cincinnati. He was adjunct professor of Latin
and Greek at the university, 1866-70; professor of ancient languages, 1870-75;
professor of Greek at Vanderbilt university, 1875-83; of ancient languages at
the University of Texas, 1883-87, and in 1887 became professor of Greek in the
University of Virginia. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Leipzig
university in 1874 and that of LL.D. from Vanderbilt university in 1888. He was elected a
member and president of the American Philological association in 1882; and was
editor for the United States and Canada of the Revue des Revues and
correspondent of the Philologische Wockenschrift. He published editions of the Clouds of
Aristophanes, and the Antigone of Sophocles and many articles in periodicals at
home and abroad.