Preston Everett JAMES
1899 - 1986 (87 years)-
Name Preston Everett JAMES Birth 14 Feb 1899 Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
[1] Gender Male Census 1910 Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts [2] Death 5 Jun 1986 
Siblings2 brothers Person ID I15180 bmds Last Modified 28 Sep 2016
Father Frank Everett JAMES, b. Abt 1856, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown Mother Gertrude WOODWORTH, b. Abt 1858, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F2645 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Eileen WOODBURY, b. 1 Oct 1910, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 26 Jun 2001, Honolulu, Hawaii (Age 90 years) Children + 1 . Everett Woodbury JAMES, b. Abt 1945 (Age 80 years)Family ID F6215 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Birth - 14 Feb 1899 - Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts Census - 1910 - Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts Pin Legend 
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Notes - Born Feb. 14, 1899, in Brookline, Mass. American geographer. Professor at the University of Michigan (from 1934), Syracuse University (from 1945), and other universities.
James was a consultant to and director of various organizations concerned with Latin American geography and social development. From 1948 to 1953 he was a member of the National Research Council of the American Geophysical Union. In 1951, James became the president of the Association of American Geographers and in 1957 the president of the Council on Latin American Affairs. He wrote a monograph on Latin American geography and a series of text-books on geography for high school and college students.
Works
An Outline of Geography. New York, 1935.
Geography of Man, 2nd ed. Boston, 1959. (In collaboration with H. G. Kline.)
One World Divided: A Geographical Look at the Modern World. New York, 1964.
In Russian translation:
Latinskaia Amerika. Moscow, 1949.
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