Professor
Centurion, 1902–1919
Born 3 October 1857 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Died 16 April 1919 in San Francisco, California
Buried Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium and Mausoleum
, Oakland, California
Proposed by William A. Dunning and Ripley Hitchcock
Elected 5 April 1902 at age forty-four
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