Hayford, Harrison.

Harrison Mosher Hayford was born November 1, 1916 in Belfast, Maine, the son of Ralph Hayford and Marjorie Chase Hayford. A scholar of American literature, Hayford held academic positions at a smattering of universities before joining the faculty of Northwestern University in 1942, where he remained until his retirement in 1986. Hayward's research focused on Herman Melville, as well as his contemporaries (Hawthorne, Emerson and Poe).

Hayford's father was a dairy farmer and his mother a school teacher. Hayford grew up on the family farm and attended a one-room school where his mother taught for many years. After graduating from Crosby High School in Belfast in 1934, Hayford enrolled at Tufts College (today Tufts University) in Medford, Massachusetts, where he earned a B.A. in 1938 and an M.A. in American Literature in 1940. He received his Ph.D. in American Literature from Yale University in 1945; his dissertation, a biographical and critical study of the personal and working relationship between Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne, set the course for a lifetime of work on Melville.

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