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Johnson Hindin Genealogy
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 1903 - 1978
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| Born |
22 Dec 1903 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
21 Jan 1978 |
Newton Square, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania  |
| Person ID |
I6268 |
Johnson Hindin Tree |
| Last Modified |
24 Dec 2018 |
| Father |
Benjamin Franklin ASHCOM, b. 20 Aug 1853, Snake Spring Twp., Bedford Co., Pennsylvania , d. 1 Jun 1942, Detroit, Michigan |
| Mother |
Rachel Ellen Bowles, b. 1863, d. 17 Sep 1939, Bedford, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania |
| Married |
1 Jun 1893 |
| Family ID |
F2541 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- Benjamin was an American Spanish scholar, who taught at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, beginning in 1929. He received his A.B. and A. M. degrees from Pennsylvania State University. He graduated from Everett High School in Everett, Pennsylvania.
The following obituary was published in the Detroit Free Press on January 25, 1978:
Benjamin B. Ashcom,
WSU Spanish Prof
Services for Benjamin B. Ashcom, retired Wayne State University professor of Spanish, will be held in Everett Cemetery, Everett, Pa. The time of services was not set immediately.
Mr. Ashcom, 74, died Saturday at his home in Newtown Square, Pa.
He retired in 1973 after 44 years on the WSU faculty in the department of Romance and Germanic languages.
A leading authority on the Spanish language, Mr. Ashcom was listed in Who's Who in America and in the Dictionary of American Scholars, and was a Fulbright research scholar in Madrid in 1963 and 1964.
He gave a series of Fulbright lectures in Scotland and England in 1964.
Mr. Ashcom was a gradaute [sic] of Pennsylvania State University, where he was a Spanish instructor for two years. Me was an English instructor at the University of Puerto Rico from 1927 to 1929, after which he joined Wayne State. He received a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Michigan in 1938.
Ashcom was a member of the board of the Wayne State University Press and a member of the American Associaton [sic] of Teachers of Spanish and Por- tugese, the American Association of University Professors, the American Studies Association, the Modern Language Association, the Renaissance Society of America, the Michigan Academy of Science. Arts and Letters, and the Asociacoin [sic] Internaclnal de Hispanistas.
Surviving are his wife, Victoria; a daughter, Mrs. Liz Goray; two sons, Benjamin M. and Charles W., and five grandchildren.
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