professor of Latin, b. Brooklyn, Ind. He graduated from De Pauw Univ. (A.B., 1883) and Johns Hopkins Univ. (Ph.D., 1891), and did advanced study at the universities of Berlin and Munich. He was instructor in Latin at Bryn Mawr College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (1887-1888), taught at Collegiate Institute, Hackettstown, N.J. (1888-1889), and was professor of Latin at Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa (1889-1906). In 1906 he came to the Univ. of Wisconsin as professor of Latin, and served in this capacity until his death. Slaughter was annual professor of Latin at the American School for Classical Studies in Rome (1909--1910), and during World War I served in Italy as a major with the American Red Cross. For these services he was twice decorated by the Italian government and also received the Red Cross medal. Slaughter was the author of books, essays, and monographs on classical and Latin subjects, and was recognized by both his colleagues and students as a genuine humanist, and an excellent scholar and teacher. He died in Rome, and is buried in the English Cemetery in that city. Who Was Who in Amer. (1943); M. S. Slaughter, Roman Portraits (New Haven, 1925); M. Curti and V. Carstensen, Univ. of Wis. (2 vols., Madison, 1949); Madison Wis. State Journal, Dec. 31, 1923.

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