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James Chalmers
James Chalmers was born in Ontario, Canada, November 22, 1859. He is of Scotch-Irish
parentage. In his seventh year his parents moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and he received his elementary education in the excellent public schools of that State.
| He was, afterwards educated at the University of Michigan and Eureka College, the latter institution conferring upon him successively the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. In 1892 Western Michigan College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws.
He was Professor of English and Philosophy at Eureka College in 1887-89 and was then elected to the chair of English Literature at Ohio State University, a position which he still holds.
In 1888 he was married to Miss Lizzie Anderson of Grand Rapids, Michigan, then a student in the University of Michigan. Two children have been born to them—James A. and William Wallace.
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They have a beautiful and happy home in Columbus, Ohio, with one of the largest and choicest libraries of English literature in the State.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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