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ANGELL.ANTHON. was assistant librarian of Brown university, 1849-'50; student in Europe, 1850-'53: professor of modern languages and literature at Brown, 1852-'60; editor Providence Journal, 1860-'66; president of the University of Vermont, 1866-'71, and president of the University of Michigan from 1871. In addition to his services as president of the university he also filled the position of lecturer on political economy and international law, 1871-'80, and on international law from 1882. He was appointed U.S. minister to China, and chairman of a special commission to negotiate treaties with China in 1880, by President Hayes. After he had negotiated important commercial and immigration treaties he resigned and returned to the United States in 1881. He was a member of the Anglo-American international commission on Canadian fisheries in 1887, and chairman of the Canadian-American commission on deep waterways from the lakes to the sea in 1896. He was appointed U. S. ambassador to Turkey in 1897 by President McKinley, and resigned in May, 1898. He was married in 1855 to Sarah S., daughter of the Rev. Dr. Alexis Caswell, president of Brown university, 1868-'72. He was a regent of the Smithsonian institution; received the degree LL.D. from Brown in 1868; from Columbia in 1888; from Yale in 1901, and from Johns Hopkins in 1902. He is the author of: "Progress in International Law" (1875); "The Higher Education" (1897); and "The Diplomacy of the United States" in Justin Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America" (1888). ANGELL, Joseph Kinnicut, editor, was born in Providence, R. I., April 30, 1794. He was graduated from Brown university in 1813, studied law, and in 1816 was admitted to the bar. From 1828 to 1831 he was editor of the Law Intelligencer and Review, and from 1845 to 1849 reporter of the Rhode Island supreme court, editing and publishing the first reports of the court. His publications include: "A Treatise on the Right of Property in Tide Waters" (1826); "Inquiry Relative to an Incorporeal Hereditament" (1827); "A Practical Summary of the Law of Assignment" (1835); "Treatise on the Common Law in Relation to Water Courses" (1840); (3d ed. 1848); "Treatise on the Law Concerning the Liabilities and Rights of Common Carriers"; (2d ed. 1845, London ed. 1849); "Treatise on the Limitations of Actions at Law and Suits in Equity and Admiralty" (2d ed. 1846); and a "Treatise on the Law of Fire and Life Insurance." In conjunction with Chief Justice Samuel Ames he wrote a "Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations" (4th ed. 1858); and he left incomplete a "Treatise on the Law of Highways," which was finished by Mr. Thomas Durfee and passed through several editions. He died in Boston, May 1, 1857. ANGUS, Samuel, naval officer, was born in Philadelphia in 1784. He was appointed midshipman Nov. 6, 1799, and was promoted lieutenant Feb. 4, 1807; commander, July 24, 1813; and captain, April 27, 1816. He was on board the Constellation during the engagement of that vessel with the French frigate La Vengeance in 1800, and later served on the Enterprise. In 1812 he was seriously injured in the attack near Black Rock, and in the flotilla battle in Delaware bay; his injuries later resulting in mental impairment, which rendered him unfit for service. He was dismissed June 21, 1824, and died at Geneva, N. Y., May 29, 1840. ANTHON, Charles, educator, was born in New York city, Nov. 19, 1797, son of George Christian Anthon, a German physician, who served in the British army in America until the surrender of Detroit in 1788, when he married the daughter of a French officer and settled in New York city. Charles was graduated from Columbia college in 1815, with honors. He was admitted to the bar in 1819, but did not practise law, taking up the study of the classics with a view to the adoption of the profession of pedagogy. He was adjunct professor of Greek and Latin in Columbia college from 1820 to 1830; Jay professor of Greek and Latin from 1830 to 1857; rector of Columbia grammar school from 1837 to 1864, and Jay professor of Greek and Latin literature, 1857 to 1867. He published a number of valuable classical works, among which were a new edition of Lemprière's" Classical Dictionary," which was published in England; "Ancient and Mediæval Geography," "A System of Greek Prosody and Metre," and various Greek and Latin grammars, readers, etc., which were adopted as college text-books. He also edited and compiled many volumes, consisting of Greek and Roman literature, lexicons, etc., relating to the study of the dead languages. Columbia college conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1831. He died July 29, 1867. ANTHON, John, jurist, was born in Detroit, Mich., May 14, 1784, son of Dr. George Christian Anthon, a German by birth, and until 1788 surgeon-general in the British army, when he removed from Detroit to New York city. John with his two brothers, Charles and Henry, received a good education, and was graduated in 1801 from Columbia college with the highest honors, receiving the degree of B.A. He was admitted to the bar in 1805. In the war of 1812 he was commander of a military company, and was stationed near Fort Hamilton, N. Y. He was for a time regimental paymaster, and also judge advocate. He was one of the founders of the New York law institute, of which he was in succession vice president and president for twenty four