Max Farrand
Born	(1869-03-29)March 29, 1869 Newark, New Jersey
Died	June 17, 1945(1945-06-17) (aged 76) Bar Harbor, Maine
Alma mater	Princeton University
Occupation	Historian
Known for	First director of theHuntington Library
Spouse	Beatrix Jones ​ (m. 1913)​
Relatives	Livingston Farrand (brother)

Max Farrand (March 29, 1869 – June 17, 1945) was an American historian and university professor. Farrand served as the first director of theHuntington Library.^[1]

He was born inNewark, New Jersey,United States. He graduated fromPrinceton with a Bachelors of Arts in 1892 and a PhD in 1896.

From 1908 to 1925, he was a professor of history atYale University. Prior to his position at Yale, Farrand also taught atWesleyan University,Stanford University, andCornell University. Farrand's area of expertise was constitutional history.^[1] Farrand served as director of theCommonwealth Fund, founded in 1918 byAnna M. Harkness.^[2]

Farrand assistedHenry E. Huntington in establishing theHuntington Library, located on the historicRancho Huerta de Cuati' inSan Marino, California. Following Huntington's death in 1927, Farrand became the library's first director, serving until 1941.

In 1921, Farrand was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[3] He was elected in 1926 a Fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).^[4] He was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society in 1928.^[5]

In 1940, Farrand, as President of theAmerican Historical Society delivered an address describing his views on history.^[6]

Farrand's final work, an examination of the letters ofBenjamin Franklin, was published posthumously in 1949.^[7]

In 1913, Farrand married the landscape architectBeatrix Farrand.^[8] They remodeled her family's home,Reef Point Estate inBar Harbor, Maine, where they spent their summers. They had no children. Farrand's brother was the researcherLivingston Farrand.^[9]

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John Cadwalader (1677–1734) Martha Jones (1679–1747) Thomas Cadwalader (1708–1779) Hannah Lambert Elizabeth Lloyd (1742–1776) John Cadwalader (1742–1786) Williamina Bond (1753–1837) Lambert Cadwalader (1742–1823) Mary McCall (1764–1848) Archibald McCall (1767–1843) Elizabeth Cadwalader (1774–1824) Maria Cadwalader (1776–1811) Samuel Ringgold (1770–1829) Thomas Cadwalader (1779–1841) Thomas McCall Cadwalader (1795–1873) Maria Charlotte Gouverneur (1801–1867) George Archibald McCall (1802–1868) Samuel Ringgold (1796–1846) Cadwalader Ringgold (1802–1867) John Cadwalader (1805–1879) George Cadwalader (1806–1879) John Lambert Cadwalader (1836–1914) Mary Binney Cadwalader (1829–1861) William Henry Rawle (1823–1889) Emily Cadwalader (1834–1892) Frederic Rhinelander Jones (1846–1918) Mary Cadwalader Rawle (1850–1923) Beatrix Cadwalader Jones (1872–1959) Max Farrand (1869–1945)
Notes: "Cadwalader Family Papers"(PDF).Collection 1454.Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 2007. RetrievedMarch 10, 2011.

The Farrands retired toReef Point estate inBar Harbor, which they planned to establish as an independent and self-perpetuating educational corporation.^{[citation needed]} Max Farrand died in 1945 before this could be accomplished. After a wildfire destroyed part of the property in 1955, Beatrix demolished the main house and uprooted the garden. She also donated their extensive library and herbarium specimens to theUniversity of California at Berkeley.^[10]John D. Rockefeller purchasing the azaleas from the uprooted gardens for his own Asticou Azalea Garden inNortheast Harbor, Maine.^[11]

The Farrands are both buried atWoodlawn Cemetery in New York City.

During theBicentennial Celebrations,James Hutson, head of the Manuscripts Division of theLibrary of Congress, edited a revised edition of Farrand's four volume,The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (Yale University Press, 1976).^[12]

• Legislation of Congress for the Government of the Organized Territories of the United States, 1789–1895 (1896) [PhD dissertation]
• Translation ofJellinek's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens (Translation from German to English) (1901)
• Records of Federal Convention of 1787 (three volumes, 1911, 1921, and 1921; vol. IV, published in 1937, remains under copyright; also reprinted in 1923, 1927 and 1934)
• The Framing of the Constitution of the United States (1913)
• Development of the United States (1918)
• The Fathers of the Constitution (1921)
• The Founders Of The Union (1926)

• New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors

• Works by Max Farrand atProject Gutenberg
• Works by or about Max Farrand at theInternet Archive
• Works by Max Farrand atLibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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• Princeton University alumni
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