James Libby Tryon (November 21, 1864 - December 21, 1958) was a peace advocate and the director of admissions at the

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. He was a member of the

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that merged with other local chapters to become the

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in 1928.

Biography

James Libby Tryon was born on November 21, 1864, in Boston, Massachusetts to Joseph A. Tryon and Ellen Bigelow Cummings. He attended

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and graduated with degrees in law and divinity: A.B., Harvard, 1894; B.D.,

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, Massachusetts, 1897; L.L.B.,

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, 1909, Ph.D., 1910. He was a reporter for the ''Portland Press'', 1884; its city editor, 1885, city editor of the ''Bangor Commercial'', 1886; night editor of the ''Portland Argus'', 1887-8. He was appointed deacon, 1896; priest, 1897, rector of All Saints' Church, Attleboro, Mass., 1897-1907; assistant secretary of the

, 1907-11; secretary of the

, and was appointed director of the New England department of the

, June, 1911. He served as a member of the International Peace Congress held in Munich in 1907, in London, 1908, in Geneva, 1912, in The Hague, 1913. He lectured on international arbitration at the

in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1908 to 1911. He undertook a lecture tour of Canadian clubs, universities and churches to promote the peace centennial during the spring of 1911. He also served as a member of the Massachusetts Prison Association, the

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, the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, the American Political Science Association and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He was the Director of Admissions at the

from 1930 to 1936. Tryon died on December 21, 1958 in Medford, Massachusetts at Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford.

Publications

* The Inter-parliamentary Union and its work (1911) * A World Treaty of Arbitration (1911) * A permanent court of international justice; a suggestion for the programme committee of the third Hague conference (1913) * The century of the Anglo-American peace (1914)

References

External links

Sylvia Tryon's biography of Kate Allen Tryon and Dr. James Libby Tryon

James Libby Tryon
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