interred 12/15/1939
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Chester Noyes Greenough was a Professor of English and Dean at Harvard University.Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts in 1874, Greenough graduated from Harvard College in 1898, received his master's degree in 1899 and his doctorate in 1904, both from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard briefly before becoming head of the English Department at the University of Illinois in 1907. He returned to Harvard as Assistant Professor of English in 1910 and became Professor of English in 1915.While serving a two-year term as Acting Dean of Harvard College from 1919 to 1921, he played a principal role in Harvard's purge of homosexuals known as the Secret Court of 1920.He held the post of Dean from 1921 to 1927. He became the first Master of Dunster House, a Harvard student residence, serving from 1930 to 1934.One of his publications, History of Literature in America, which he authored with Barrett Wendell, became a popular textbook.He married twice. His first wife, Marietta McPherson, died in 1925. He married Ruth Hornblower Atkins, who survived him, in 1931. He died in Belmont Massachusetts, on February 27, 1938.Greenough Hall, a Harvard dormitory, is named for him.
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FURTHER INFORMATION ON ABOVE:
Secret Court of 1920
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The Secret Court of 1920 was an ad hoc disciplinary tribunal of five administrators at Harvard University formed to investigate charges of homosexual activity among the student population. During two weeks in May and June 1920, the Court headed by Acting Dean Chester Noyes Greenough conducted more than thirty interviews behind closed doors and took action against eight students, a recent graduate, and an assistant professor. They were expelled or had their association with the university severed. Two of the students were later readmitted. The affair went unreported until 2002.
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Chester Noyes Greenough
United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925
birth: 29 June 1874 Massachusetts
passport application: 1925 Massachusetts, United States
spouse: Marietta Mcpherson Greenough

Chester Noyes Greenough
mentioned in the record of Chester Noyes Greenough and Marietta Mcpherson
Name Chester Noyes Greenough
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 10 Aug 1907
Event Place Marshfield, , Massachusetts
Gender Male
Age 33
Birth Date 1874
Birthplace Wakefield, ,
Registration Place Wakefield, , Massachusetts
Birth Year (Estimated) 1874
Father's Name William S Greenough
Mother's Name Elizabeth M Noyes
Spouse's Name Marietta Mcpherson
Spouse's Father's Name Thomas E Mcpherson
Spouse's Mother's Name Isabella Bradley
Certificate Number 6298
Number of Images 1
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Mr. Greenough married, August 10, 1907, Marietta McPherson of Marshfield, who died September 11,1925. On June 13, 1931 he married Mrs. Ruth Hornblower Atkins, who with five step-children survived him.