James rowland angell biography
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James Rowland Angell
National Cyclopedia of American Biography
ANGELL, James Rοwland, university president, was born in Burlington, Vt., May 8, 1869, son of James Burrill and Sarah Swope (Caswell) Angell and a descendant of Thomas Angell, who came to America from England with Roger Williams (q.v.) in 1631 and settled in Providence, R.I.
From Thomas and his wife, Alice Ashton, the descent was through John and Ruth Field, Thomas and Sarah Brown, Jeremiah and Mary Mathewson, Andrew and Tabitha Harris, Charles and Olive Aldrich, and Andrew and Amey Aldrich, the grandparents of James R.
Angell.
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His father (q.v.) was successively professor at Brown University, editor of the Providence Journal, president of the universities of Vermont and Michigan, and U.S. minister to China and Turkey. His mother was a daughter of Alexis Caswell (q.v.), president of Brown University.
James R. Angell received an Α.B. degree at the University of Michigan in 1890 and an Α.M. degree in the