George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930)

American author, born at Beverly, MA, on the 12th of May 1855; was graduated at Harvard in 1877; professor of English literature at Nebraska State University from 1878 to 1882, with the exception of 1879; and in 1892 became professor of English literature at Columbia College in the City of New York. Besides many contributions to periodicals, he wrote A History of Wood Engraving (1883); Life of Edgar Allan Poe (1885); and The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems (1883).