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Adams, Herbert Baxter

educator, author, was born April 16, 1850, in Amherst, Mass. He is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins university, and the secretary of the American Historical association from its beginning. He is the author of The Germanic Origin of New England Towns; Saxon Tithingmen in America; Norman Constables in America; Village Communities of Cape Ann and Salem; Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia; Methods of Historical Study; and History of the United States Constitution. He has edited the Life and Writings of Jared Sparks.