| 词条 | Herman Churchill |
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|name = Herman Churchill |image = HermanChurchill-1913.jpg |image_size = |caption = Herman Churchill at Rhode Island State College, 1913 |birth_date = {{birth date|1869|10|9}} |birth_place = Scott, New York |nationality = American |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1941|4|13|1869|10|9}} |death_place = Kingston, Rhode Island | spouse= Cora Mae (Boyce) Churchill | children= Irving Lester Churchill, Florence Herminia Churchill, Arthur Chester Churchill |discipline = American History |work_institution = Rhode Island State College |alma_mater = University of Wisconsin–Madison |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |workplaces = founding chairman of History at Rhode Island State College |prizes = |footnotes = }} Herman Churchill (1869–1941) was an American historian and college professor. He served as the founding chairman of the History Department of Rhode Island State College, and was the namesake of the Herman Churchill Award for Excellence in History given annually to the top honors history student at the University of Rhode Island. Early life, education and familyHerman Churchill was born in Scott, New York on 9 October 1869 to Sylvanus Amos Churchill and Caroline (Eadie) Churchill.[1]{{#tag:ref|Herman Churchill was a direct descendant of Josiah Churchill (ca1615-1683) who emigrated from England to Wethersfield, Connecticut prior to 1640.[1] He was also a descendant of Edmund Rice a 1638 immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony.[2] |group=nb}} He studied literature and rhetoric at Syracuse University, earning a A.B. degree in 1894. He earned his A.M. in Letters from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1902. Churchill married Cora Mae Boyce on 15 June 1898 in Menomonie, Wisconsin, and they had three children: Irving Lester Churchill (1901-1995), Florence Hermenia Churchill (1905-1920),[3] and Arthur Chester Churchill (1911-2001).[1] Professional career and legacyChurchill began his academic career as an instructor of English literature at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1903. In the fall of 1907, he accepted a position as head of the English Department at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas until 1909 when he accepted a similar position at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1912, Churchill made his final move in accepting the position as head of the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at Rhode Island State College.[1] Afterward in 1921, Churchill was appointed as the founding head of the History Department by the college president, Howard Edwards.[4] During his professional career, Churchill was active in civic affairs in the community, serving as president of the Tavern Hall Club in 1929, and he was active in genealogical research.[1] He was active in the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society and Beta Theta Pi fraternity and was a charter signatory of the Rhode Island chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society.[1] He died at his home in Kingston, Rhode Island on 13 April 1941, shortly after retiring from the college in 1940.[5] The Herman Churchill Award for Excellence in History is given to highest achieving students graduating in history at the University of Rhode Island was named for Churchill.[6] References
1. ^1 2 3 4 5 pp. 147-150 In: George Norbury MacKenzie (ed.). (1917). Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 6. The Seaforth Press, Baltimore, MD. [https://books.google.com/books?id=J1tlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146 web version] 2. ^p.1025 In: Ray Lowther Ellis (ed.), 1970. A Genealogical Register of Edmund Rice Descendants. Edmund Rice (1638) Association and The Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, Vermont. 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27906121 |title= Florence Hermenia Churchill |publisher= Find a Grave |accessdate=19 December 2011}} 4. ^p. 31 In: The Grist 1940 Yearbook of Rhode Island State College. 5. ^Wheaton, James and Richard Vangermeersch. 1999. University of Rhode Island. Arcadia Publishing. 128pp. {{ISBN|0-7385-0214-6}}. 6. ^Commencement Program University of Rhode Island, 1981. University of Rhode Island Special Collections, Kingston, Rhode Island.
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