RAYSOR, THOMAS MIDDLETON: Professor
of English Literature; b Chapel Hill, Tex Mar 9, 1895; s of
Paul Montgomery-Mary Elizabeth Matthews; ed
Allen Acad, Bryan Tex; Harvard U, BA summa cum laude 1917,
PhD 1922; Phi Beta Kappa; Royal Soc of Arts;
m Ellen Devereux Koopman July 5, 1923 Cohasset Mass; d Cecily
Devereux, Joan Gilmer; 1914-15 Latin instr,
Allen Acad, Bryan Tex; 1917-18 English instr, Tex Agrl & Mechanical
Coll, College Station Tex; 1922-23 Sheldon
traveling fellowship in Europe, did mostly Coleridge research in British
Museum, London & Oxford, also traveled
in Germany, France & Italy; 1923-24 asst English prof, U of Minn;
1924-30 assoc prof, later prof of English
State Coll of Washington; 1926-28 on leave of absence, held Guggenheim
fellowship & did Coleridge research, England;
1927-28 held resident fellowship at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, was
editor Coleridge's Miscellaneous Criticisms;
1930- chmn English dept, U of N; during World War Feb 1918 ent US
army field arty, grad Saumur Ofcrs Arty Sch
Dec 1918, att Sorbonne, Paris 1919, disch May 1919; Modern
Language Assn of Amer; Modern Humanities Assn;
hobby, mountain climbing; off U of N, Andrews Hall; res 2930
S 24th, Lincoln.