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Paul McClelland Angle was born on December 25, 1900 in Mansfield, Ohio, United States, the son of John Elmer Angle, a grocer, and Nellie Laverne McClelland, a secretary and teacher. He had three brothers and two sisters.
From the age of nine, he worked in his father's store and had a wide range of duties.
Angle attended Oberlin College (1918-1919) and Miami University, where he majored in history and political science; he graduated from the latter magna cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1922.
Two years later, he earned a master's degree at the University of Illinois.
To pay off accumulated debts, Angle was temporarily a steelworker, an insurance salesman, and a representative of the American Book Company.
In 1925, when he was about to accept an assistant professorship at Miami University, he learned of an opening in Springfield, Illinois, that attracted him. Leaders of the Lincoln Centennial Association, founded in 1909, were developing the group into a specialized society for research on Lincoln's life and career. The post of executive secretary was open, and Theodore C. Pease, a professor of history at the University of Illinois, recommended Angle for the post. Angle was hired, and for the next twenty years he lived in Springfield.
In 1932, he was appointed historian of the Illinois State Library, and he became secretary of the Illinois State Historical Society. At the age of twenty-eight, Angle won national acclaim.
In its December 1928 issue, the Atlantic Monthly printed the first of a three-part series entitled "Lincoln--the Lover, " previously undisclosed letters between Lincoln and Ann Rutledge (1813-1835) that were announced as fully documenting the story of their romance. Atlantic editor Ellery Sedgwick declared that the handwriting had been authenticated and that the letters were on paper that had passed strict physical tests. Angle declared the letters a colossal hoax. Sedgwick dismissed him as a publicity seeker and published the entire series. But as more and more scholars supported Angle's position, it was finally admitted that the letters had been fabricated.
Angle's analysis was printed in the April 1929 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. Ruth Painter Randall summarized the controversy in her biography of Ann Rutledge in Notable American Women. She concluded that "the verdict of Lincoln scholars, after careful analysis, is that there is not a scrap of reliable evidence to support this long-lived legend. "
Angle moved the annual meetings of the society, until then always held in Springfield, to communities throughout the state. He arranged for historical tours of the areas by those attending the meetings. In 1945, Angle accepted the invitation of the Chicago Historical Society to become its director and secretary. Virtually overnight he became active in Chicago's civic affairs.
Angle's experience led the mayor of Chicago to put him in charge of a committee that was to decide what city records to preserve. He continued as secretary of the Chicago Historical Society until 1970 but resigned the directorship in 1965 to devote himself to research, editing, and writing.
Angle's impressive production of books and articles started in 1925 when, under the title Lincoln in Springfield, he prepared for the Lincoln Centennial Association a guide to the places in Springfield that were associated with Lincoln's life. A year later he brought out the seven-volume Lincoln in the Year, Lincoln's day-by-day activities during the years 1854-1860.
Angle was still under thirty when Houghton Mifflin published New Letters and Papers of Lincoln (1930). Also in 1930, Angle edited a one-volume edition of William H. Herndon's Life of Lincoln, which since 1889 had been reprinted a dozen times in two volumes.
Angle's introduction and notes added so much that Herndon's Life was republished in 1936. Angle's publications came to the attention of Carl Sandburg, who asked Angle to help him with his Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (1932). More than half of that book consisted of the letters, documents, and appendix that Angle assembled and arranged. The intimate association of Lincoln with Springfield so fascinated Angle that he researched and wrote a history of the Illinois state capital (1935). Bearing Lincoln's words "Here I Have Lived" as its title and dedicated to Angle's friend and benefactor, Logan Hay, it covers the period from the region's prehistoric times to Lincoln's departure for Washington, D. C. In the course of the book Lincoln recalls the Black Hawk war, Mormon troubles, the first railroads and their effects, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
From the late 1930's to the early 1970's, Angle produced an outstanding number of books and articles, including Handbook of Illinois History, written with Richard L. Beyer (1943), A Shelf of Lincoln Books (1946), The Lincoln Reader (1947), By These Words (1954), A Lincoln in Letters Portrait by His Oldest Sons (1968), and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen (1970).
On several occasions Angle treated subjects other than Lincoln and related themes. In 1931, he made a detailed study of the Marine Bank of Springfield, distinguished as the "oldest bank in Illinois. " A concern with violence led him to research the fighting in the southern Illinois coalfields; as a result, facts about the Herrin massacre stood out in his Bloody Williamson (1952), which publisher Alfred A. Knopf called "a hair-raising story of unparalleled violence. " Twice he wrote on the Chicago Fire: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (1969) and The Great Chicago Fire, October 8-10, 1871 (1971).
In World War II he served the U. S. Army Air Force as a consultant in history.
An athlete in his college years, he turned to gardening as an adult.
Angle died in Chicago and donated his body to medical research.
Angle became an important figure in covering historical events and figures of that time. Under Angle the Illinois State Historical Library assembled the largest collection of prepresidential Lincoln manuscripts, documents, and notes. It also acquired one of the five existing copies, in Lincoln's handwriting, of the Gettysburg Address. Angle revised the State Historical Society's Journal to make it readable, attractive, and respectable. Another important contribution was the selection of historic sites for official marking and dedication. All of these activities led to a much greater interest in history statewide and a substantial increase in the society's membership. The New York Times credited Angle with portraying "with liveliness, color and accuracy the rapidly developing life, growth, manners and customs, wealth and culture of the Illinois frontier town from its first log cabin in the proud little city that with cheers sent its most eminent citizen to the White House and in sorrow received his remains. "
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Quotes from others about the person
Emmett Dedmon: "With those of us who knew Paul Angle, his memory will be ever green, his books a bottomless harvest, and the glow of his friendship as rich as a prairie sunset over the land he loved. "
Angle married Vesta Verne Magee on June 17, 1926; they had two children.
