Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
H. Morse Stephens
Professor
Centurion, 1902–1919
Proposed by
William A. Dunning and Ripley Hitchcock
William A. Dunning and Ripley Hitchcock
born
October 3, 1857
Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland
died
April 16, 1919
San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
elected
April 5, 1902
Age forty-four
Age forty-four
buried
Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium and Mausoleum,
Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Century Memorial
Henry Morse Stephens occupied the chair of European history at Cornell University during eight years, and was in charge of the general department of history at the University of California during the seventeen years after leaving Cornell. His work as writer, editor, and lecturer on historical subjects was voluminous; his published works comprising histories of India and Revolutionary France as well as of contemporary continental Europe and England. During ten years he was an editor of the American Historical Review, and he served as President of the American Historical Society.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1920 Century Association Yearbook
