Livingston, Farrand 1867-1939.

Livingston Farrand was born in 1867 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton in 1888, and took an M. D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He was an instructor in psychology at Columbia, served as Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, and was chairman of the American Red Cross. In 1914 he became president of the University of Colorado, and in 1921 was inaugurated as the fourth president of Cornell University, a position he held until 1937. Farrand died on 8 November 1939.

From the guide to the Livingston Farrand papers, 1921-1939., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library)