12 Facts About Wallace Notestein

Wallace Notestein was an American historian and Sterling Professor of English History at Yale University from 1928 to 1947.

Wallace Notestein was married to women's educational pioneer Ada Comstock.

Wallace Notestein's father was professor of Latin Language and Literature at The College of Wooster.

Wallace Notestein's uncles were professors and his younger sister Lucy Lilian Notestein became a historian.

Wallace Notestein joined the faculty of history at the University of Kansas from 1905 until 1907 when he left to teach at the University of Minnesota.

In 1919, Wallace Notestein attended the Paris Peace Conference on World War I, serving as the American Commission to Negotiate Peace specialist on questions relating to Germany.

Wallace Notestein stayed at Cornell for eight years, during which he was appointed the Goldwin Smith Chair of English History, before leaving to become a Sterling Professor at his alma mater, Yale.

Wallace Notestein was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1916.

Wallace Notestein was later honored by the University of Oxford in 1958 with an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.

Wallace Notestein received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Yale University in 1951.

Wallace Notestein died on Sunday, February 2,1969, in New Haven, Connecticut from a heart attack.

Wallace Notestein married women's educational pioneer and former president of Radcliffe College, Ada Comstock in 1943.