• He was born in New York January 11th and he died from heart failure on August 26th 1910
• He married Alice Howe Gibbens in 1878 and they had 5 children together
• William started out as wanting to be a painter but later got into science
• He enrolled at the Lawrence Scientific School

• William James publishes the first psychology text book, Principles of Psychology
• In 1902 he published another book called the varieties of religious experience
• A Pluralistic Universe proved to be his last major work during his lifetime

• After a year at Harvard Medical School he joined Louis Agassiz's expedition to the Amazon Basin
• He also spent time in Germany to recuperate from some health problems
• He lost a son to whooping cough

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