Herman Churchill

Herman Churchill was an American historian and college professor. He served as the founding chairman of the History Department of Rhode Island State College, and was the namesake of the Herman Churchill Award for Excellence in History given annually to the top honors history student at the University of Rhode Island.

Herman Churchill was born in Scott, New York onOctober 1869 to Sylvanus Amos Churchill and Caroline Churchill. He studied literature and rhetoric at Syracuse University, earning a A.B. degree in 1894. He earned his A.M. in Letters from the University of WisconsinMadison in 1902. Churchill married Cora Mae Boyce onJune 1898 in Menomonie, Wisconsin, and they had three children Irving Lester Churchill , Florence Hermenia Churchill , and Arthur Chester Churchill .

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