Editing James Rouse (section)

==Early life and education==
James "Jim" Rouse was born in [[Easton, Maryland]], to Lydia Agnes (née Robinson) and Willard Goldsmith Rouse, a canned-foods broker. His father, a lawyer trained at [[Johns Hopkins University]], once ran for state's attorney for [[Harford County, Maryland|Harford County]]. When he lost, the Rouse family moved from [[Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland|Bel Air, Maryland]], to Easton.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2004/08/16/daily27.html|work=[[Baltimore Business Journal]]|title=James Rouse: A Timeline|first=Robert J.|last=Terry|date=August 20, 2004|access-date=January 12, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Paul |last=Goldberger |author-link=Paul Goldberger |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/10/us/james-w-rouse-81-dies-socially-conscious-developer-built-new-townsand-malls.html |title=James W. Rouse, 81, Dies; Socially Conscious Developer Built New Towns and Malls |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 10, 1996 |access-date=January 12, 2011 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214025934/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/10/us/james-w-rouse-81-dies-socially-conscious-developer-built-new-townsand-malls.html |archive-date=December 14, 2022}}</ref> Rouse grew up in Easton (then population: 5,000) on a well-to-do street on the edge of town. He was taught at home by his mother until second grade when he transferred to a public school. In 1930, Rouse lost his father to bladder cancer, his mother to heart failure, and his childhood home to bank foreclosure. His brother Bill paid for him to attend the private preparatory [[Tome School]] in [[Port Deposit, Maryland]], for a year.<ref>{{cite book |title=New City Upon A Hill, A History of Columbia of Maryland |page=33 |first1=Joseph Rocco |last1=Mitchell |first2=David L. |last2=Stebenne |date=2007 |publisher=History Press |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=978-1596290679}}</ref>

Facing money problems and unable to continue at the Tome School, the Rouse family sought a way for him to attend college by appealing to his oldest sister, who had married a [[United States Navy]] officer stationed in Hawaii. Rouse declared himself his sister's dependent and, with Navy connections now secured, was thereby able to attend the [[University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa]] at a greatly reduced cost.<ref name="trailblazing" /> Rouse later attended the [[University of Virginia]]. He declared his major as political science and waited tables at a local boarding house. Because he was unable to cover the gap between his scholarship and his remaining expenses, he left [[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]] and moved to [[Baltimore]] to try to make it on his own.