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     Biography of Thomas M. Raysor
     Grandson of Peter Andrew Raysor

 


     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.


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