Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Francis Barton GUMMERE
GUMMERE, Francis Barton, educator, was born at Burlington, N.J., March 6, 1855; son of Samuel James and Elizabeth (Barton) Gummere; and grandson of John and Elizabeth (Buzby) Gummere. He was graduated from Haverford college, A.B., 1872, A.M., 1875; and from Harvard, A.B., 1875. He was teacher of English in the Friends' school, Providence, R.I., 1875-79, and in the latter year went abroad where he studied in Freiburg university for two years, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from that institution in 1881. He was instructor in English at Harvard, 1881-82; head master of the Swain free school at New Bedford, Mass., 1882-87, and accepted the chair of English at Haverford college in 1887. He is the author of The Anglo-Saxon Metaphor (1881); Handbook of Poetics (1885; 5th ed., 1896); Germanic Origins; a Study in Primitive Culture (1892); Old English Ballads (1894) and numerous essays.
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