University professor, writer; business executive. Born– August 20, 1865, Greenville, S.C. Parents– James Overton and Elizabeth Ann (Austin) Ferrell. Married– Tennessee “Tenney” Marr Taliaferro, August 16, 1899. Children–two. Education– Vanderbilt University, A.B., 1885; M.A., 1886; University of Leipzig, Ph.D., 1892; further study at the University of Paris and the University of Berlin. Instructor of Greek, Vanderbilt, 1885-89; taught languages at the University of Mississippi, 1893-1908; writer (living in Birmingham), 1908-1915; president of the Export Pratt Coal Company, 1913-15.  Published many articles and translations. Died May 2, 1915.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online and Library of Southern Literature.

Publication(s):

The Medea of Euripides and the Medea of Grillparzer.  N.P., 1901.

Teutonic Antiquities in the Anglo-Saxon Genesis. Halle; E. Karras, 1893.

Editor:

Sappho; Trauerspiel in Funf Aufzhugen. Boston; Ginn and Company, 1899.