. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. rkLand Improvement Co. ; and Treasurer of the Kicka-poo Indian Medicine Co., New Haven, Conn. JAMKS KNOX .Wi;RILL, Lawyer, was born atSand Lake, Rensselaer county. New \ork,October 12, 1846, son of James Gill and Clarissa(Sluyter) Averill. Isaac Averill, of whom he is adescendant in the fifth generation, emigrated fromMilfonl Haven, Wales, to Topsfield, Massachusetts, UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 461 and from thenc
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. rkLand Improvement Co. ; and Treasurer of the Kicka-poo Indian Medicine Co., New Haven, Conn. JAMKS KNOX .Wi;RILL, Lawyer, was born atSand Lake, Rensselaer county. New \ork,October 12, 1846, son of James Gill and Clarissa(Sluyter) Averill. Isaac Averill, of whom he is adescendant in the fifth generation, emigrated fromMilfonl Haven, Wales, to Topsfield, Massachusetts, UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 461 and from thence moved to Preston, Connecticut,where his son Moses, the next in line, was Isaac Averill, son of Moses, was also a native ofPreston, and the formers son, James CAW Averill,was born in Flatbush, Long Island, May 28, latters wife, Clarissa, was a daughter of ClementSluyter, and a grand-daughter of William Sluyter, anative of Holland, who, after his arrival in America,settled first in New Canaan, Connecticut, and in 1776removed to Sand Lake. The subject of this sketchattended the village school and academy at SandLake, the Brookside Institute, and both Phillips. JAMES K. AVERILL (Exeter) ami (Andover) Academies. EnteringYale with the Class of 1869, he remained throughthe Freshman year, and after teaching school forseveral months in Berlin, New York, he began hislegal preparations in the Law Department of Colum-bia, from which he was graduated in 1869. Hisfirst four years of practice was as a member of thefirm of Averill, Allison & Averill in New York City,and he was in business alone from 1873 to 1877,when he went to Troy, New York, where for theensuing four years he was a member of the firm ofWooster & Averill, his partner being at that time,District Attorney for Rensselaer county. Returningto the metropolis in 1883 he has ever since beenengaged in practice alone with headquarters in Temple Court, and he is officially connected with anumber of flourishing corpor
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