Albert Granger Harkness (1856-1923), professor of classics, was born in Providence on November 19, 1856, the son of Professor Albert Harkness, Class of 1842. He studied at the University Grammar School and entered Brown in 1874, but because of illness did not graduate until 1879. He taught classics at the Peddie School until 1881, then studied Latin and Greek philology at the Universities of Berlin, Leipzig, and Bonn. He was professor of Latin and German at Madison University (now Colgate University) from 1883 to 1889, when he returned to Brown as associate professor of Latin. He became professor of Roman literature and history in 1893. In 1902-03 he was resident professor at the American School for Classical Studies in Rome. He died in Providence on January 29, 1923. He had taught until January 6 of that year.
From the guide to the Albert Granger Harkness papers, Harkness (Albert Granger) papers, circa 1876-1919, (John Hay Library Special Collections)
