37 Facts About Claude Fuess

Claude Moore Fuess was an American author, historian, educator, and the 10th Headmaster of Phillips Academy Andover from 1933 to 1948.

Concurrent with his teaching and position, Claude Fuess led a writing career spanning several decades.

Claude Fuess is credited as the author or editor of over 30 books and articles including biographies of Caleb Cushing, Calvin Coolidge, Rufus Choate, Daniel Webster, and Carl Schurz.

Claude Fuess was born on January 12,1885, in Waterville, New York, to Louis Phillip Claude Fuess and Helen Augusta Moore.

Claude Fuess fled Germany during the Revolution in 1848 and emigrated to the United States, landing in New Orleans and making his way to New York City.

Claude Fuess had one younger brother named Harold L Fuess, an active member of local government in and around Waterville including Town Clerk of Sangerfield, New York.

Claude Fuess played football for Waterville High School's first team and cycled for the school's first track team.

Claude Fuess entered Amherst College in the autumn of 1901 at the age of 16 and graduated in 1905.

Claude Fuess continued to train for Amherst's cycling team but was unable to race when the New England Committee abolished the cycling races from its athletic program.

Claude Fuess was a member of the fraternity Alpha Delta Phi.

Claude Fuess took courses in debate, public speaking, and German.

Claude Fuess was awarded a Doctorate of Letters, an honorary degree from Amherst College in 1929 for his career as an English teacher and author.

Claude Fuess continued to keep close connections with Amherst for the rest of his life.

Claude Fuess was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Council, President of the Society of the Alumni, for two years National President of Alpha Delta Phi, and President of the Amherst Corporate Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi.

Claude Fuess began his career in teaching while a student and assistant in the English Department at Columbia.

Claude Fuess took the advice of his mentor, Professor William P Trent, and took a year off from school to teach at the George School, a coeducational secondary school in Pennsylvania, before making his way unexpectedly to Phillips Academy where he would settle.

Claude Fuess spent a substantial portion of his career at Phillips Academy, a coeducational secondary boarding school which was at the time an all boys school.

Claude Fuess soon caught influenza and was honorably discharged in January 1919.

Claude Fuess soon became a popular figure among the younger alumni who knew him and known as one of the best English teachers of his time.

Similar to when Claude Fuess accepted the job as an English teacher in 1908, he was reluctant.

Bush and family friend Godfrey A Rockefeller graduated in 1942, Fuess without warning announced his plan to ban secret societies.

Claude Fuess would have served a total of 40 years at Phillips Academy, 25 as an English teacher and 15 as Headmaster.

In 1948 Claude Fuess officially retired and was succeeded by John Mason Kemper.

Claude Fuess specialized in political biography, completing his first on Caleb Cushing in 1923.

Claude Fuess wrote another biography in 1930 on Daniel Webster, further establishing his writing career in that field.

Claude Fuess continued to author a number of biographies afterward.

Claude Fuess wrote several books on New England academic institutions including Phillips Academy and Amherst College and their respective towns.

Claude Fuess received a request from Frank Waterman Stearns to write a biography of Stearns himself.

Claude Fuess died in 1939 and in 1941 his family requested the project be abandoned.

Bush, Claude Fuess failed to mention the opium trafficking industry that brought both families their wealth.

Claude Fuess remained an active author and figure after his retirement from Phillips Academy in 1948.

Claude Fuess published over five books in this time before his death.

Claude Fuess married Elizabeth Cushing Goodhue, a relative of politician Caleb Cushing, on June 27,1911.

Claude Fuess remarried Lulie Anderson Blackfan on December 15,1945.

Claude Fuess' health declined in his last year and died in 1963 a widower.

Claude Fuess is buried in the Phillips Academy Cemetery along with both of his spouses.

Claude Fuess is credited as the author or editor of over 30 books and articles.