Alexis C. Angell was a Michigan Law School professor and U.S. District Judge. Grandson Robert Cooley Angell was chair of the sociology department at the University of Michigan and president of the American Sociological Association. Nephew Frank Angell was a psychologist at Cornell and Stanford universities. Son-in-law Andrew McLaughlin, married to Angell's daughter Lois (b. 1863), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Granddaughter Constance Green was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Grandson James Angell MacLachlan was a Harvard Law School professor. Honors and appointments Elected an associate fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1868. Elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1890. Served as president of the American Historical Association from 1892 to 1893. Honorary Doctor of Law degrees from Brown University (1868), Columbia University (1887), Rutgers College (1896), Princeton University (1896), Yale University (1901), Johns Hopkins University (1902), University of Wisconsin (1904), University of Vermont (1904), Harvard University (1906), University of Michigan (1908), and Dartmouth College (1909). Regent of the Smithsonian Institution from January 19, 1887, to January 15, 1912. Awarded the First Class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure by Emperor Meiji in October 1909 for service to Japanese students. Inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2008. Commemoration Angell Hall, one of the most prominent buildings on the University of Michigan campus, is named after him. Designed by Albert Kahn, it was completed in 1924 at a cost of $1 million, providing of classroom and office space. Angell School, a kindergarten through fifth grade elementary school in the Ann Arbor Public Schools, is named after him. Angell School, a kindergarten through fifth grade elementary school in the Berkley School District, is named after him. In 1910 sculptor Karl Bitter produced a bas relief depicting a seated Angell. It now resides in the lobby of Angell Hall. A caricature of Angell by Ulysses Ricci's firm Ricci and Zari can be found carved on a corbel at the University of Michigan's Law Quadrangle. The former University of Michigan honor society Michigamua renamed itself the Order of Angell in 2007, over the objections of some of Angell's descendants. Sarah Caswell Angell Hall was a theater in Barbour Gymnasium (a women's gymnasium on the Michigan campus), named in honor of Angell's wife in 1905. The gymnasium was torn down in 1946. See also History of Chinese Americans History of Rhode Island History