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  • United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  • AKA: A.C. Angell

Judge A.C. Angell was born 26 April 1857 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States to James Burrill Angell (1829-1916) and Sarah Swope Caswell (1831-1903) and died 24 December 1932 Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States of unspecified causes. He married Francis Cary Cooley (1857-1934) 6 June 1880 in Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor County, Michigan, United States.

Biography

Education and career

Born on April 26, 1857, in Providence, Rhode Island, Angell received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1878 from the University of Michigan, read law in 1879, and received a Bachelor of Laws in 1880 from the University of Michigan Law School. He entered private practice in Detroit, Michigan from 1880 to 1911.[1] He was a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan from 1893 to 1898, lecturing one half of each year.[2]

Federal judicial service

Alexis Caswell Angell portrait c

Judicial portrait of Angell, c. 1930.

Angell was nominated by President William Howard Taft on February 25, 1911, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan vacated by Judge Henry Harrison Swan. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 2, 1911, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on June 1, 1912, due to his resignation.[1]


Other activities

Angell edited the second edition of Cooley's Torts (1888), the sixth edition of his Constitutional Limitations (1890), and the second edition of his Principles of Constitutional Law (1891).

Death

Following his resignation from the federal bench, Angell returned to private practice in Detroit from 1912 to 1932.[1] He died on December 24, 1932.[1]

Family

Angell was the son of James Burrill Angell (1829-1916) and Sarah Swope Caswell, and was named for his maternal grandfather, Alexis Caswell, later President of Brown University.[3] Angell was 14 when his family moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan when his father was appointed President of the University of Michigan. In 1880, he married Fanny Cary Cooley, daughter of Law Professor Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1824-1898).

  1. Sarah Caswell Angell (1883-1928)
  2. Thomas Cooley Angell (1885-1896)
  3. Alice Angell (1886-1886)
  4. James Burrill Angell (1894-1958)
  5. Elizabeth Horton Angell (1895-1900)
  6. Robert Cooley Angell (1899-1984) - chair of the sociology department at the University of Michigan and president of the American Sociological Association.



Children


Offspring of Judge A.C. Angell and Francis Cary Cooley (1857-1934)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Sarah Caswell Angell (1883-1928)
Thomas Cooley Angell (1885-1896)
Alice Angell (1886-1886)
James Burrill Angell (1894-1958)
Elizabeth Horton Angell (1895-1900)
Robert Cooley Angell (1899-1984) 25 April 1899 Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States 12 May 1984 Superior, Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States Esther R. Kennedy (1900-1986)



Siblings


Offspring of James Burrill Angell (1829-1916) and Sarah Swope Caswell (1831-1903)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Alexis Caswell Angell (1857-1932) 26 April 1857 Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States 24 December 1932 Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States Francis Cary Cooley (1857-1934)
Baby Boy Angell (1860-1860)
Lois Thompson Angell (1863-1941) 15 February 1863 Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States 5 May 1941 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (1861-1947)
James Rowland Angell (1869-1949) 8 May 1869 Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States 4 March 1949 Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States Marion Isabel Watrous (1870-1931)
Katharine Stuart Cramer (1890-1983)

Residences

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Legal offices
Preceded by
Henry Harrison Swan
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
1911–1912
Succeeded by
Arthur J. Tuttle

References



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