Arthur Garfield Kennedy

Arthur Garfield Kennedy (June 29, 1880 − April 21, 1954) was an American philologist who served as Professor of English at Stanford University from 1914 to 1945.

Biography

Kennedy was born in Weeping Water, Nebraska on June 29, 1880, and attended Doane College at Crete, Nebraska. He received his master's degree from the University of Nebraska and his doctor's degree from Stanford University. From 1914 to 1945 Kennedy was Professor of English at Stanford University. He was the author of several books on the English language.[1] In 1925 he, with Kemp Malone and Louise Pound, founded the journal American Speech and he was a frequent contributor.[2] Kennedy died at his home in Palo Alto on April 21, 1954 and was survived by two grown children.[1]

gollark: It's actually quite readable, just entirely lacking in punctuation.
gollark: Probably some is from viruses too.
gollark: 42% of our DNA is retrotransposons, which aren't actually viruses but vaguely related.
gollark: It's definitely one of those sentences.
gollark: But I don't think that's actually the case, and evolution doesn't always do the globally optimal thing.

References
  1. "A. G. Kennedy Dies At 73". The San Francisco Examiner. April 22, 1954. p. 25. Retrieved August 29, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. Algeo, John (2009). The Origins and Development of the English Language (6th ed.). Cengage. p. 196. ISBN 9781428231450.



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