Franklin, Fabian

Fabian Franklin (1853-1939) was born in Hungary January 18, 1853, and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1855, settling in Philadelphia, and moving in 1861 to Washington, D.C. He graduated from Columbian College in 1869, and received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Columbian University in 1904. He first trained to become a civil engineer but later entered Johns Hopkins University and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics (1880). He married Christine Ladd, a professor of psychology and logic at Columbia University, in 1882. He remained at Johns Hopkins teaching mathematics from 1879-95,...