The New Student's Reference Work/Angell, James Burrill
Angell, James Burrill, LL. D., American educator and diplomat, was born at Scituate, R. I., January 27, 1829. A graduate of Brown University, he afterward traveled abroad and returned to take the professorship of modern languages at his alma mater. In 1866, he became president of the University of Vermont, and five years later exchanged the post for that of president of the University of Michigan, resigning the office in 1909. In 1880–81 he acted as United States minister to China, and then he negotiated for the government some important treaties. For a year (1897–98) he was American minister to Turkey; he has also served on international commissions, especially on those dealing with Canadian-American fisheries and deep water-ways.