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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1859|5|3}}<br />
| birth_place = [[New York City|New York]], New York, US<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1948|7|17|1859|5|3}}<br />
| death_place = New York, New York, US<br />
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| occupation = Academic<br />
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| spouse = {{Marriage|Emma Gross Pennington|1884}}<br />
| children = 3<br />
| education = [[Columbia University]]<br />
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'''James Chidester Egbert Jr.''', Ph. D. (1859&ndash;1948) was an American classical scholar and educator.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
James Chidester Egbert Jr. was born in [[New York City]] on May 3, 1859.<ref name=Universities>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/universitiesandt02cham/page/425/mode/1up |title=Universities and Their Sons |volume=II |editor-first=Joshua L. |editor-last=Chamberlain |publisher=R. Herndon Company |place=Boston |page=425 |date=1899 |access-date=2025-05-08 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> He graduated at [[Columbia University]] in 1881, and took a doctorate there in 1884. He then became a professor of [[classical studies]]<ref name="AAA">{{cite web | author=| year=2011 | title=Finding Aid | work=American Academy in Rome records, 1855-[ca.1981], (bulk dates 1894-1946) | publisher=[[Archives of American Art]] | url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/american-academy-rome-records-6320/more | accessdate=17 Jun 2011}}</ref> and was dean of the School of Business there from 1916 to 1932. In 1911 he became active in the [[American Academy in Rome]], serving on various committees and becoming vice president from 1940-1944.<ref name="AAA"/><br />
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His works include an edition of ''Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course'' (1892); ''Cicero de Senectute'' (1895); ''Introduction to the Study of Latin Inscriptions'' (1896);<ref>{{cite book |author-last=Egbert Jr. |author-first=James C. |date=1896 |title=Introduction to the Study of Latin Inscriptions |publication-place=New York |publisher=[[American Book Company (1890)|American Book Company]] |url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontost00egbeuoft/page/n7}}</ref> and ''Livy xxi and Selections from xxii to xxx'' (1913). He also wrote a four-volume work ''American Business Practice'' (1931).<br />
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He married Emma Gross Pennington in 1884, and they had three children.<ref name=Universities/><br />
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He died at [[Mount Sinai Morningside|St. Luke's Hospital]] in Manhattan on July 17, 1948.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-dr-james-c-egbert-former-c/171974896/ |title=Dr. James C. Egbert, Former Columbia officer |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]] |page=323 |date=1948-07-18 |access-date=2025-05-08 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><br />
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*[http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~emty/Section_D_John&Hannah_Egbert_Family.html Background Info.]<br />
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