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Ambassadors and ministers to foreign countries have included Brown men since the early nineteenth century, among them: Jonathan Russell 1791, ambassador to Sweden and Norway; Henry Wheaton 1802, minister to Prussia; Christopher Robinson 1825, minister to Peru; George Van Ness Lothrop 1838, minister to Russia; Lewis Richmond 1842, minister to Portugal; Samuel Sullivan Cox 1846, minister to Turkey; James Burrill Angell 1849, minister to China and Turkey; John Hay 1858, ambassador to Great Britain; John Meredith Read 1858, minister to Greece; Frederick M. Sackett 1890, ambassador to Germany; Leland Howard Littlefield 1892, ambassador to Great Britain; Noble B. Judah ’04, ambassador to Cuba; Ely E. Palmer ’08, ambassador to Afghanistan; Roy Tasco Davis ’10, minister to Guatemala and Costa Rica, and Panama; Warren Randolph Burgess ’12, ambassador to NATO; Dana Gardner Munro ’12, minister to Haiti; Willard L. Beaulac ’20, ambassador to Paraguay, Columbia, Cuba, Chile, and Argentina; John J. Muccio ’21, ambassador to Korea, Iceland, and Guatemala; Will Mercer Cook A.M.’31, ambassador to Niger and Senegal; Clinton E. Knox A.M.’31, ambassador to Dahomey; Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37, ambassador to the U.S.S.R.; Taylor G. Belcher ’41, ambassador to Cyprus; William H. Sullivan ’43, ambassador to Laos; and Nathaniel Davis ’46, ambassador to Guatemala.Ambassadors and ministers
The American Philosophical Society has numbered among its members the following individuals connected with Brown, elected to membership in the years indicated: Stephen Hopkins in 1769; Benjamin Waterhouse in 1791; Francis Wayland in 1838; John E. Holbrook 1815 in 1839; Alpheus S. Packard in 1878; George Dana Boardman 1852 in 1880; Henry S. Frieze 1841 in 1884; William Williams Keen 1859 in 1884; James Macalister 1856 in 1886; James Burrill Angell 1849 in 1889; Lester Frank Ward in 1889; Richard Olney 1856 in 1897; Stephen F. Peckham 1862 in 1897; John Hay 1858 in 1898; Robert H. Thurston 1859 in 1902; Carl Barus in 1903; Hermon Carey Bumpus 1884 in 1909; Charles E. Bennett 1878 in 1913; Winthrop John Vanleuven Osterhout 1893 in 1917; John Franklin Jameson in 1920; Charles Evans Hughes 1881 in 1926; Arthur F. Buddington ’12 in 1931; John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1897 in 1931; Ernest E. Tyzzer 1897 in 1931; Gilbert Chinard in 1932; George E. Coghill 1896 in 1935; Harvey N. Davis ’01 in 1935; George Grafton Wilson 1886 in 1936; Frederick G. Keyes ’09 Ph.D. in 1938; Charles August Kraus in 1939; Walter S. Hunter in 1941; Leonard Carmichael in 1942; Zechariah Chafee ’07 in 1946; Robert Cushman Murphy ’11 in 1946; Otto E. Neugebauer in 1947; William A. Noyes in 1947; George Boas ’13 in 1950; Carl Bridenbaugh in 1950; Clarence Saunders Brigham 1899 in 1955; Clarence H. Graham in 1956; John Imbrie in 1956; Lars Onsager in 1959; John Wilder Tukey ’36 in 1962; Edmund Sears Morgan in 1964; Carl Pfaffmann ’33 in 1964; Vartan Gregorian in 1965; Barnaby C. Keeney in 1965; Donald F. Hornig in 1967; Floyd Ratliff ’50 Ph.D. in 1972; Leon N. Cooper in 1973; David E. Pingree in 1975; George F. Carrier in 1976; Eliot Stellar ’47 Ph.D. in 1977; Brooke Hindle ’40 in 1982; Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37 in 1984; Barbara K. Lewalski in 1986.American Philosophical Society
It was named for James Burrill Angell 1849, noted member of the Brown chapter of Psi Upsilon.Angell Hall
James Burrill Angell prepared at Lapham Institute and the University Grammar School and graduated from Brown in 1849 as valedictorian of his class.Angell, James Burrill
James Burrill Angell spent the winter of 1850-51 in the South with his friend and classmate Rowland Hazard 1849, and went to Europe in December of 1851 to study.Angell, James Burrill
Elisha Bartlett taught in nine schools, his appointments being professor of pathological anatomy and materia medica at the Berkshire Medical Institute in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1832, professor at Dartmouth in 1839, professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 1841 and at the University of Maryland in 1844, professor of materia medica and obstetrics at Vermont Medical College in 1844 (he taught a course for thirteen weeks each year until 1854), and professor of the theory and practice of medicine at the University of Louisville in March 1849 for one session only, after which he went to the University of New York.Bartlett, Elisha
Chace kept in touch with leading scientists and introduced Agassiz and Gould’s "Principles of Zoology" as a textbook for his course in 1849, the year after its publication.Biology
General Ambrose E. Burnside’s remarks were followed by a centennial poem by John Hay 1858, read in his absence by Professor James B. Angell 1849, which began: George William Curtis, honorary alumnus, responded to the sentiment, "The Adopted Sons of the University," and Professor Caswell 1822 responded to "The Memory of the Founders and Benefactors of the University" by contributing $1000 toward endowment of a professorship as a memorial of the occasion.Centennial celebration
James B. Angell 1849 said of Chace, "He was one of the few men who could talk well while conducting an experiment."Chace, George Ide
Two presidents of the University of Vermont have been Brown alumni, Willard Preston 1806 and James Burrill Angell 1849.College and University Presidents
Between 1846 and 1849 22 students had entered the course.Curriculum
Beta Theta Pi (Kappa chapter) was established in 1849.Fraternities
James Burrill Angell 1849, wrote in "Memories of Brown" of Greene’s arrival to take the place of Charles Coffin Jewett, the librarian, who had been teaching modern languages: In 1852 he moved to New York City and devoted his time to study and writing, and was especially occupied with working on the biography of his much admired grandfather, General Nathanael Greene.Greene, George W.
From 1842 to 1849 Samuel Stillman Greene taught in the public schools of Boston, and then took on another newly created office, that of agent of the Massachusetts Board of Education.Greene, Samuel Stillman
James Burrill Angell 1849 commented on Gammell’s teaching, "His course in history was fuller than that at any other college except Harvard.History
At the dedication of the library on November 11, 1910, eight hundred graduates and guests moved in procession to Sayles Hall to hear the principal addresses, by James B. Angell 1849 on "Mr. Hay as an Undergraduate," and Elihu Root, Senator from New York, on "Mr. Hay as a Diplomat."John Hay Library
Between 1849 and 1853, William L. Marcy held no public office, and spent his time on politics, reading, and playing whist with his political foe Thurlow Weed.Marcy, William L.
After Jewett, the professor of modern languages were George Washington Greene 1828 from 1848 to 1852, and James B. Angell 1849 from 1852 to 1860.Modern Languages
Wilfred Harold Munro (1849-1934), professor of history, was born in Bristol, Rhode Island, on August 20, 1849.Munro, Wilfred H.
The Philermenian Society had 3,224 volumes when a printed catalogue was issued in 1849.Philermenian Society
In 1849 Ezekiel Gilman Robinson became pastor of the Ninth Street Baptist Church in Cincinnati.Robinson, Ezekiel Gilman
Lack of support for Francis Wayland's views caused the offer of his resignation as president in 1849, which in turn brought about the consideration of the Corporation and the withdrawal of the resignation.Wayland, Francis
When Wayland found his second son, Heman Lincoln Wayland 1849, to be "more than usually self willed" at the age of fifteen months, he set about correcting the child by starving him until he succumbed to his father’s will over a day later.Wayland, Francis
His eldest son, Francis Wayland, Jr. 1846, became Dean of the Yale Law School, and his second son, Heman Lincoln Wayland 1849 became president of Franklin College in 1870.Wayland, Francis