ADAMS, EPHRAIM DOUGLASS _5-1930), Ameri can educator and historian, brother of Henry Carter Adams (q.v.), was born in Decorah, Ia., Dec. 18, 1865. He graduated in 1887 from the University of Michigan from which in 1890 he received the degree of doctor of philosophy. From 1891 to 1899 he was assistant and associate professor of history and sociology, and from 1899 to 19o2 professor of European history in the Univer sity of Kansas. He was associate professor of history in Leland Stanford university from 1902 until 1906, when he was made professor.
His published writings include Control of the Purse in the United States Government (1894), The Influence of Grenville on Pitt's Foreign Policy (1904), British Interests and Activities in Texas (Iwo), The Power of Ideals in United States History (1913), Great Britain, America and Democracy (1919), Great Britain and the American Civil War (1925) and numerous papers and reviews in historical journals.