Max Farrand

Author Code: AMXF

Educated at Newark Academy and Princeton University, where he achieved his Ph.D in 1896, Farrand had also studied briefly at the Universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig. He was appointed professor of history at Wesleyan University in 1896. In 1901, he moved on to Stanford University as head of the history department. In 1908, he returned east to Yale University as professor of history and remained there until 1925. In 1911, he published The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, a masterpiece of editing and one which is still the definitive work on the subject. Farrand married Beatrix Jones, one of the most important American landscape architects of the 20th century, in 1913. In 1926, after leaving Yale, Farrand was appointed director of the educational division of the Commonwealth Fund. In 1927, he was named the director of research for the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, where he continued to work until his death. In addition to numerous papers on history in various professional journals, his work includes The Framing of the Constitution (1913), The Development of the United States from Colonies to a World Power (1918) and Fathers of the Constitution (1921).