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Thomas Angell

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas L. Angell was an American Free Will Baptist pastor, academic, leader of the Lapham Institute, and early professor at Bates College in Maine. Thomas L. Angell was born in 1837 in Greenville, Rhode Island to Pardon and Mary Ann Angell who were both descendants of Thomas Angell, a Baptist, who was one of the first settlers of Rhode Island. Angell attended the common school in Greenville and the Smithville Seminary and then Thetford Academy, Vermont and Wilbraham Academy where he prepared to attend Brown University, enrolling in 1858. In 1862 during the Civil War, Angell graduated from Brown and enlisted in the Rhode Island militia as aide de camp for General Tourtellotte. Upon his graduation, Angell taught school briefly in Greenville before attending Hartford Seminary. In 1864 started teaching at the Lapham Institute in North Scituate, Rhode Island with Benjamin F. Hayes, and eventually he succeeded Hayes as principal, working at the school for four years. In 1869, he followed Hayes to Bates College succeeding him as Professor of French and German , and Angell remained at Bates until 1902. Angell also served as a Free Will Baptist pastor.

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