American classical scholar, born on the 6th of November 1807, in West Newbury, MA. He graduated at Harvard College in 1827, having taught school in the winter vacations of his sophomore and junior years. After teaching in the Livingstone high school of Geneseo, NY, for two years, he became tutor at Harvard in 1829, university professor of Greek in 1832, and Eliot professor of Greek literature in 1834. In 1860 he succeeded James Walker as president of Harvard, which position he held until his death, at Chester, PA, on the 26th of February 1862. Dr. Felton edited many classical texts. His annotations on Wolfs text of the Iliad (1833) are especially valuable. Greece, Ancient and Modern (2 vols., 1867), forty-nine lectures before the Lowell Institute, is scholarly, able and suggestive of the authors personality. Among his miscellaneous publications are the American edition of Sir William Smiths History of Greece (1855); translations of Menzels German Literature (1840), of Munks Metres of the Greeks and Romans (1844), and of Guyots Earth and Man (1849); and Familiar Letters from Europe (1865).