Excerpt from Memorial of the Funeral Services for Edmund Janes James, Ph.D., LL. D., Fourth President of the University of Illinois, 1904-1920 Doctor Edmund Janes James, fourth President of the University of Illinois, was born on May 21, 1855 at Jack sonville, Illinois, the son of Reverend Colin Dew James and Mrs. Amanda Keziah Casad James. Following his early education at the Illinois State Normal University, he attended Northwestern and Harvard Universities in 1873 and 1874. In 1875 he entered the University of Halle in Germany where he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1877. Following his return to the United States he served successively as Principal of the Evanston, Illinois, High School and as Professor of Latin and Greek and Principal of the High School Department at the Illinois State Normal University. In 1879 he was married to Miss Anna Margarethe Lange of Halle, Prussia, whom he met while studying at the University there. The three children born to this union-anthony John James, U. S. N Dr. Herman Ger lach James, and Helen Dickson James (mrs. George F razer) - are living. Mrs. James died in 1914 at Urbana. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.