Westel W. Willoughby

Westel Woodbury Willoughby (20 July 1867–25 March 1945) was an American academic who played an important role in establishing a discipline of political science.

Their lawyer father had been a major in the Union Army with the New York Volunteers, and after retiring due to injuries incurred at the Battle of Chancellorsville, he served as a local prosecutor, then briefly as a trial judge and on the Supreme Court of Appeals for Virginia.

[citation needed] Willoughby was invited as a guest lecturer to China when he responded to a request from the Chinese government in 1917 to assist as a constitutional and legal advisor for a period of one year.

His numerous writings on China and Japan and their relationships prior to World War II are classics that are still used in education to this day.

Grace, who predeceased him by nearly 30 years, died in 1907 at the age of 36 and was buried at Linwood Cemetery in her hometown of Dubuque.

Along with his twin brother William Franklin Willoughby, an accomplished economist and political scientist, he bought a small island called Endiang on Stoney Lake north of Toronto in 1908, where both families spent their summers.