While attending college, he was an avid outdoorsman and active in the school's literary societies.Īfter he graduated from Occidental, Jeffers went to the University of Southern California (USC) to study at first literature, and then medicine. He earned his bachelor's degree from Occidental College at age 18. By age twelve, he was fluent in German and French as well as English. An outstanding student, he was instructed in the classics and Greek and Latin language and literature. Jeffers traveled through Europe during his youth and attended school in Germany, France, and Switzerland. His brother was Hamilton Jeffers, a well-known astronomer who worked at Lick Observatory. William Hamilton Jeffers, a Presbyterian minister and scholar of ancient languages and Biblical history, and Annie Robinson Tuttle. Jeffers was born January 10, 1887, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), the son of Reverend Dr.
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