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• m. Marian Hooper, on June 27, 1872, at Beverly Farms MA. She was b. Sep. 13, 1843, Boston MA; d. Dec. 6, 1885, Wash. DC. She is the daughter of Dr. Robert William Hooper and Ellen Sturgis.
• Henry and Ellen had no children.

Brief Biography:

Henry Adams returned to the U.S. and was appointed an Assistant Prof. of History at Harvard College, 1870-1877, and editor of the North American Review. After 1877, he traveled extensively abroad and spent 30 years engaged in literary, biographical, and historical work. His most noted works are:

• Essays in Anglo Saxon Law, 1876.
• New England Federalism, 1877.
• Life of Albert Gallatin, 1880.
• Life of John Randolph, 1882
• History of the United States under the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison, in 9 volumes, 1888-1891.
• Mont St. Michel and Chartres.
• The Education of Henry Adams, an autobiographical work.

Henry Adams is considered an eminent historian and a distinguished man of letters. In 1892 he was awarded the honorary LL.D. from Western Reserve University.

References:

• Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass., compiled by J. Gardner Bartlett for Edward Dean Adams, privately printed, New York, 1927.
• Dorset Pilgrims, by Frank Thistlethwaite, pub. by Heart of the Lakes, Interlaken NY, 1993.

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