Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1902 — PROF. EDMUND JANES JAMES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PROF. EDMUND JANES JAMES.

Prof. Edmund Janes James has been chosen as president of the Northwestern University at Evanston, 111. The new president will assume his duties Feb. 1 at an annual salary of $7,500, which is an increase of $2,500 over U>at of his predecessor, Dr. Henry Wade Rogers, who resigned two years ago. Prof. James comes from a long line of Methodist ancestry, his father and grandfather having both been Methodist clergymen. He is a native of Illinois, having been born at Jacksonville in 1855.

(Elected as president of Northwestern university.)