Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Adams, Herbert Baxter

ADAMS, Herbert Baxter, educator, b. in Amherst, Mass., 16 April, 1850. His early training was in the Amherst schools and in Phillips Exeter academy. He was graduated at Amherst in 1872, and received the degree of Ph. D. at Heidelberg, Germany, in 1876. He was fellow in history in Johns Hopkins university from 1876 to 1878, associate from 1878 to 1883, and was appointed associate professor in 1883. He has been secretary of the American historical association since its foundation in 1884. In 1873 he went to Europe and devoted three years to travel and study. His principal writings are “The Germanic Origin of the New England Towns”; “Saxon Tithing-Men in America”; “Norman Constables in America”: “Village Communities”; “Methods of Historical Study,” and “Maryland's Influence upon Land Cessions to the United States.” All these papers are published in the “Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science,” edited by Prof. Adams, 4 vols. (Baltimore, 1883-'86).