Background
Angell, James Rowland was born on May 8, 1869 in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Son of Doctor James Burrill and Sarah Swope (Caswell) Angell.
Angell, James Rowland was born on May 8, 1869 in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Son of Doctor James Burrill and Sarah Swope (Caswell) Angell.
Brother of Alexis Caswell Angell. Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1890, A.M., 1891. A.M., Harvard, 1892; the Doctor of Letters, University of Vermont, 1915.
Doctor of Laws, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Chicago, Union, Cincinnati, McGill, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Brown, Middlebury, Illinois College, University of Michigan, Wabash, University of California, New York University, Williams College, Dartmouth College, Rutgers, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Military College, and honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Rensselaer Polytech. University of Berlin and Halle, 1893. Traveled and studied at Vienna, Paris, Leipzig, etc.
Instructor philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1893. Assistant Professor psychology and director psychological laboratory, 1894-1901, associate professor, 1901-1905. Professor and head of department, 1905-1919, senior dean, 1908-1911, dean university faculties, 1911-1919, acting president, 1918-1919, University of Chicago.
President Carnegie Corporation, 1920-1921. President Yale University, 1921-1937. Educational counselor National Broadcasting corporation since 1937.
Exchange professor, The Sorbonne, Paris, 1914. Lecturer University of California Wellesley College, Columbia University, Stanford University, etc. Ichabod Spencer lecturer, Union U.
Member psychology committee of National Research Council. Member committee of the adjutant general’s office on classification of personnel in the Army, 1917-1918. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member American Psychological Association (president 1906), American Philosophical Society, National Academy Sciences, Connecticut Society of Cincinnati, Berzelius and Aurelian societies, English-Speaking Union (national president since June 1939), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Kappa Delta Pi. Member British Psychological Society. Clubs: Graduate (New Haven, Connecticut).
Married Marion Isabel Watrous, December 18, 1894 (died June 23, 1931).; married second, Mistress. Children: James Waterhouse, Marion Waterhouse, Caswell (Mistress William Rockefeller McAlpin).