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JAMES SCHOULER (1839— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 378 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:SCHOULER (1839— )  , See also:American lawyer and historian, was See also:born in See also:West See also:Cambridge (now See also:Arlington), See also:Massachusetts, on the loth of See also:March 1839, the son of See also:William See also:Schouler (1814—1872), who from 1847 to 1853 edited the See also:Boston See also:Atlas, one of the leading Whig See also:journals of New See also:England . The son graduated at Harvard in 1859, studied See also:law in Boston and was admitted to the See also:bar there in 1862 . In 1869 he removed to See also:Washington, where for three years he published the See also:United States Jurist . After his return to Boston, in 1874, he devoted himself to See also:office practice and to See also:literary pursuits . He was a lecturer in the law school of Boston University between 1885 and 1903, a non-See also:resident See also:professor and lecturer in the See also:National University Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1887-1909, and a lecturer on American See also:history and constitutional law at Johns See also:Hopkins University in 1891-1908 . In 1896-1897 he was See also:president of the American See also:Historical Association . His legal See also:treatises are The Law of Domestic Relations (187o), The Law of See also:Personal See also:Property (1872-1876; new ed., 1907), The Law of Bailments (188o), The Law of Executors and Administrators (1883),, The Law of See also:Husband and Wife (1882) and The Law of See also:Wills (191o) . He is best known, however, as an historian; his most important See also:work being a History of the United States under the Constitution, 1789-1865 (6 vols., 188o-1899) . Among his other publications are A See also:Life of See also:Thomas See also:Jefferson (1893); Historical Briefs (1896), containing a See also:biography of Mr Schouler; Constitutional Studies, See also:State and Federal (1897); a brief Life of See also:Alexander See also:Hamilton (1901); Americans of 1776 (1906); and Ideals of the See also:Republic (1908) .

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