Felton, Cornelius Conway, American scholar, born at West Newbury, Massachusetts; graduated at Harvard in 1827, and became professor of Greek there, rising to the Presidency of the same college in 1860; edited Greek classics, and made translations from the German; most important work is “Greece, Ancient and Modern,” in 2 vols. (1807‒1862).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Felony * Felton, John